I've decided that my favorite "ism" would have to be Post Modernism. While I didn't really enjoy the piece that I chose to annotate, Tart of Darkness by Car Hiaasen, I read Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and thought it was amazing. His unorthodox writing style is just fantastic, especially his account of the firebombing of Dresden. I'm really looking forward to reading Cat's Cradle, since I've heard so many good things about it. I'll definitely be looking into some of Kurt Vonnegut's books as well as other similar Post Modernism authors.
The thing is with Post Modernism is that the author doesn't just come out and lay the story down for you; they make you think. The plot as well as the characters are fairly complex and you won't be able to enjoy the text by just reading it, you really have to get into it. Slaughter-House Five was such a complex story, changing time periods and even planets. I look forward to getting into this "isms" more once school starts.
I'd have to say that Realism would be in second place. The short story, The Kiss by Kate Chopin was a great read, and has a great moral behind it. I also loved reading Child on Top of a Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke.
I personaly did not like this ism because well it was boring. It had alot of words in it that i didnt understand. I also thought it was random of the author to write about football. I thought also that this author drowned on and on. But a couple parts were ok.
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