• How does Esther avoid Chemistry in college? Why might she find science so overwhelming?
Esther tells her story of how she got an A in her first class. Then she tells us her story about physics and how she only got an A because she was terrified of the subject. “I may have made a straight A in physics, but it was panic-struck.” (Pg. 35) She knew that Chemistry would be even worse. Because she was a English major, she created a plan to tell the Dean that she needed the time to take a course in Shakespeare and because she had gotten an A before, she knew that the teacher would know she would get an A again. Esther knew that without her first A that she would have never succeed with this plan. She might find science so overwhelming because of the table of elements that she had noticed. She didn’t want to have to strain her brain with anymore of memorizing elements. She said that she would go mad and outright fail the course.
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Good blog Michael. Her plan to cheat the system works, but I think her reasoning is deeper than just the fact that she would have to memorize the periodic table of elements. I think Esther is too simple-minded to take such a complex course. She does not like regimented things, she wants her mind to be able to wander. She is more creative rather than analytical.
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