The study of English Language and Literature, on the middle school level, is referred to as Language Arts. Inherent in this reference is the fact that, as an educator, I am not only responsible to teach English as a language with all its complexities, but also as an art with all its interpretations. Merriam-Webster defines language as a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs or words, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings; it defines art as a creative product of human activity, fashioned with the intention of stimulating the human mind and senses thus transmitting ideas and emotions. Literature is art; it stimulates the mind and embodies emotion. It does this. The question is, “How do I get my students to unravel this stimulus of senses, mind, emotion, and ideas and gather more than a sophomoric meaning from the written word?”