In your essay you reflected on Dr. Winton’s statement that “...language itself is not adequate to fully express our own thoughts, feelings, and experiences” (2017, p. 6) While I agree that literature is a powerful medium for expressing the human experience, I believe that what Dr. Winston means is that it is difficult to express the myriad of thoughts and feelings and experiences through mere language. By this, I mean that there are words in other languages that we have no words for in English. For example, in Spanish, there is one word to mean the day before yesterday: anteayer. However, in English, we must use several words to express this one idea. Another example is our English word tile. We use this to mean both a roofing tile and a floor
