I was going to choose Harry Potter, then I saw the default heading was "... brings me back" and in no way am I "brought back" to HP. You can't be brought back to the present, and Harry Potter inspires me on a daily basis. WWHPD?
1. Third Grade, Mrs. Ryan's class. She brought Roald Dahl into my life, igniting a lifelong love for his books. I would regularly bust a gut over the misspelled words, and I remember crowing with my pals and, later, my parents over the HILARITY of Childchewer and Bloodbottler mowing human beans. I had to have read that book 10 times before I left elementary school.
2. AP Brit Lit, Ms Brooks: While the rest of my Smart Kid Class were slaving through Virginia Woolf and Chaucer and Shakespeare, I had the bright idea to pick a children's author with a wide catalog. I wrote my paper on Roald Dahl and the influence his childhood had on his children's fiction. If I had to relive high school over again, knowing I'd be starting off with World History and ending with that class, it might make it almost worth it.
3. Beauty, Terror and the Grotesque, Dr. McGuire: Because I am totally unoriginal, I wrote my senior thesis for my English major on the thematic prevalence of terror and the grotesque in his fiction. I wrote it over a period of 17 hours and was pretty thrilled just to be done. Not nearly as good a time as my historiography theis, but writing long papers on things I really love is always a good way to spend 2 days and a night.
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