Welcome

Hello, and welcome to Mr. Root's American Lit Room!  So what exactly is a Lit Room?  I can't say I know for sure, but maybe we could compare it to a training dojo where martial artists discipline themselves in the precise movements of their craft.  Maybe we could see it as a kind of wrestling room where ideas contend with one another to find out which is the mightier.  Or perhaps its is a dining room in which a delicious feast of images and insights is served up to share among friends.  I like to envision a huge conference room where the best minds of the past and present sit around a table arguing and challenging one another and every once in a while asking for my opinion. If our lit room gets a little stuffy, maybe we don't have to be inside at all, but rather in an open field where we can loafe at our ease observing a spear of summer grass... 

Speaking of summer, what literary experiences did you have this summer? What stories did you encounter either in a book, a movie or a video game? What made the story worthwhile? Was there anything that changed or clarified the way you see the world? Explain.