Mitch

He was, however, less confident about questions regarding the book itself, as he did not comprehend anything about it. He had looked at all 106 pages that had been assigned, and his pupils had scanned across every sentence, and he understood all the individual words and all of the meaningful phrases. Yet-somehow-Mitch had ingested nothing. He could not recall the qualities of any of the characters (although their names now sounded vaguely familiar), nor could he outline any element of the book's plot (beyond feeling an abstract sense of darkness and formality). Had he forgotten to bring the book home over the weekend, he would still be in the same position he was right now. This sort of thing happened all the time. The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident (Klosterman).

This passage, I hate to say, reminds me a lot of what it was like when we were reading Dante's Inferno and the Iliad. Like Mitch, I read everything but I didn't really absorb it (sorry ms.willians). All of the characters that Klosterman creates are always easy to relate to. i think thats probably why I like his writing so much. it just feels like I'm have this same thought train go through my head before. Anyways, I honestly don't have questions for this passage but I really enjoyed reading it. Although Mitch isn't my favorite character he would probably be my second favorite.