Your first impression of the ending. When writing in the journal, use full sentences instead of phrases. The demands of the sentence will help you draw out your thoughts fully. The journal will seem less of an intrusion into your reading if you follow the natural rhythms of reading. Sometimes we're carried along by the flow of a work, but the things I've asked you to note are all signs that it's time to pause and reflect.
Nobody reads a work straight through or at a uniform speed.
Only machines work that way. The journal is a device to help you make more of the moments of reflection and to preserve them for later reconsideration. When you finish the reading for a particular author, or after we've discussed them in lecture and class, go back and use the facing pages to comment on your original observations and to make something of them. Finally, as you make these reflections on your reading experience, discuss your emerging sense of what the work is about.