So over the last week I have watched, in awe, all of the other canto's up to mine, which I presented today. I was canto 32 and it went well of course, because I'm such a bawler. I really loved all of the other canto's, but one stood out to me. The girl who did the suicide tree canto did it crazy well, and I actually learned what happens in that canto. We also had to make a visual, which she rocked the socks off of. There is a picture portraying her canto below. Anyways, I learned how this canto works, and how each tree is actually a human, plus the tree person gets to stare at their hanging dead body for the rest of eternity! How fabulous! I also really liked canto 31, which is where all the dead giants dwell. They aren't really punished, but they do get constricted with huge chains depending on what they did in life. Two of them tried to climb mount Olympus and start a war with the gods, but they were only nine years old, so they were quickly killed by Apollo, and are now constricted super tight in hell with the rest of the sinners. Pride is the downfall of too many stories.
I am actually embarrassed and proud of myself at the same time right now. I did my whole canto project in one day. The day before it was due. It took a crazy long time and really really sucked to sit at my computer area for nine hours. It really did teach me something about procrastinating though: only procrastinate whole projects if you can actually get them done in less than a day. I shall forever be weary when I get a big project and have to smash it all out in one Sunday like I did with this one. From this whole project I gained so much knowledge on Dante's Inferno, and would be happy to study Purgatory and Paradise at some point later on because of the good experience I had with this.
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