Status Updates From The Awakening

We're reading this to study allegories (symbolic vehicles that carry a deeper meaning called a tenor). So far, I've analyzed the meanings of the ocean, a parrot, characters in the story, light, and piano music.

I am now debating whether a hammock is just a hammock or represents something else.

Hence, the hazards of AP Literature.

The Awakening is putting me to sleep.

A teacher at my school calls this "The Asleepening," and now I can't get it out of my head.

This feels like a late-19th-century island beach-vacation fever dream.