Many students are unsure about how to talk or write about literature.
There are many ways, but most important is knowing the kind of questions to ask about a work. Critics and scholars often have specific interests which help define the kinds of questions that they ask, and when a student reads their comments, they are often baffled by how the writer came up with the ideas. Their comments come out of their interest in literature and those other things, much the way yours might whether your major is English or not. There really isn't a mystery about it. Here are some suggestions for how you might try to comment on or question the works we are reading this semester.