Challenge Check-in 3
I decided to change my topic of the challenge essay to the Gothic Place option.  This is because I felt more time was going into finding a disney movie to watch than the essay.  I chose the Gothic Place option because I wanted to test my skills at describing feelings, something I have also never been good at.  This was very difficult for me to do.  I found myself trying to relive the situation in the dark room of the law library to get a more accurate description of the feelings.  I was feeling my way from wall to wall, walking with big uncertain steps, when a group for some gathering in the law school walked by.  I assumed these were alumni of the UF Law School.
As for my understanding of the gothic, I was amazed at how much the writing process refined my ideas of the gothic.  In my paper, I tried to first describe how I identify a gothic place, then describe my gothic space, and finally compare these two and show how my space fits into the gothic place.  In order to do this, I had to do some critical thinking into how I defined the gothic.