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I think Sorrows Of An American as the final reading for the course worked pretty well for the class and helped put it all together. Before reading this text we learned about evolution, then we learned how evolution is applied and then we spoke about the unconscious and the conscious and now this books brings all of that together as an organized collage so that we have all the pictures on one canvas.

The characters evolve during the whole book while we get glimpses of their unconscious state of mind while dealing with their conscious. The characters are all lonely which helps us look at them as individual species who go through their personal evolution and some come out better than the other in the eyes of the reader just like speciation. This book has it all, the evolution, the pull of the unconscious and the randomness all wrapped up in a story deliberately written in a certain way. This story is one that helps end the class with a better understanding of all the discussions.