@riverflows Wow. I really liked that used the first person narration.However, there’s a part of your story that is kind of confusing . “Not in Religion and Philosophy (God is DEAD! screamed Nietzshe - and yet his shadow still looms!) and not in Tolkien: ('in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.') nor in Greek myth and Erebus, the personification of deep and dark shadows, or the shades of the underworlds, nor in the dark photography rooms where we captured photographs of light and dark in subjects as banal as one's dinner or as obvious as the shadow cast from the oak tree in the courtyard of the school”. Please, Bolddo well to explain.
It's a very long sentence with lots of punctuation lol. She was talking about all the subjects and areas of study for the Shadow theme, and there was nothing useful or interesting for her there. She's quite intelligent and feels above the rest of her classmates, and it's not until she finds the spell book tht she gets interested. Is that what you meant?