Molly Young starts “Sweatpants in Paradise” with an experience that most people can understand which is going to the mall. Young says that people go into the mall and the shopping environment alters our perceptions of time and space. Young writes, “Depending on your mien and mood, this reemergence will feel sharply good or bad. The shopping wormhole affects everyone differently”(Young 726). Everyone goes into the mall knowing exactly what he or she wants or just to look.
The non-fiction book Gulp by Mary Roach takes the reader on a fascinating and sometimes disgusting journey through the alimentary canal, which she calls “the most powerful taboo in human history”(Roach 18). Throughout the book Roach attempts to entertain, as well as inform, the reader by asking questions that many people would neither think or want to ask. Questions such as “Why do animals lick their wounds? Why don’t suicide bombers smuggle bombs in their rectums? Can constipation kill you?”
Out of the six chapters, I prefer to write about Chapter One: The Duel and Chapter Two: The Dinner. This book was very intriguing and helped to understand the post-revolutionary America and the lives of the founding brothers and what they went through. Chapter One: The Duel was a well-known duel in American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. July 11, 1804 is the exact date when the duel happened.
Clark, Emily. Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society 1727-1834. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Emily Clark’s book Masterless Mistresses addresses the Ursuline order of nuns in the Louisiana area between 1727 and 1834.
The theme of loss in literature, is an incident that most characters have to face within their story. How characters deal and overcome with losing something, can make them weaker or stronger. In the two literary works, a wife and husband lose important elements in their marriage, needed to sustain their boned relationship. In the short story “Answers,” in “Half-Mammals of Dixie” by George Singleton and the poem “Conjoined,” by Judith Minty, a wife and husband lose trust, connection, and unity within their marriage, revealing that the breakdown of trust results in devastating loss.
Kaden Kroslak Professor Stumpf English Composition II 2 February 2023 Introduction Essay 1 First Draft Authors Joey Franklin and Tanner Barrett are two writers who have written great stories on battling adversity. Not much is known about either author, but much can be seen about who they are through their writing. Today, Joey Franklin continues in his prosperous career of writing and English based subjects as he is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. “His essays and articles have appeared in Poets and Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere” (Franklin Joey; goodreads). Joey Franklin’s story in his time working at Wendy’s is an enjoyable, real-life story based on his experiences in a new temporary
Quail in Rose Petal Sauce 12 roses, preferably red 12 chestnuts 2 teaspoons of butter 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 drops attar of roses 2 tablespoons of honey 2 cloves of garlic 6 quail 1 pitaya “Remove the petals carefully from the roses, trying not to prick your fingers, for not only are the little wounds painful but the petals could soak up blood that might alter the flavor of the dish and ever produce dangerous chemical reactions.” Meals are not to be taken literally in writing, especially in Like Water For Chocolate. Food and other cuisines are meant to have symbolic significance for emotions. In literature, meals are used to reveal feelings and character traits about characters in a convenient setting.
Almost everyone is aware of some story behind historic colonizers in his or her country. Whether it’s the United States’ story of Columbus, or the Mexico’s story of Cortes, people are familiar with what it means to be a colonizer. However, in the short story, “Maryanne’s Clouds Today”, by Ivan Rehorek, the author takes a spin on the post colonial mindset that is known as othering. This is when the colonizer sets himself apart from the colonized people by cultural values, difference in appearance or personality as a whole. Columbus used this sense of othering by pointing out the differences between himself and the natives he encountered.
Blind Future Caroline Bird strongly believes college is not needed to have a fulfilling life, nor is college intended for the masses, although she has attained a college education herself. Some of Bird’s main arguments in her essay, “College is a Waste of Time and Money” (a short essay), are: college is not for everyone; after college there is no guaranteed future; and students are overall unhappy while attending college. Granted, some of Bird’s arguments towards college being an unnecessary task to venture for most of the population ring some truth, but have also become dated in today’s day and age. Caroline Bird was born on April 15, 1915, in New York City.
Book of the Month Written by Kaitlin Kim The riveting masterpiece, Girl in Pieces, by Kathleen Glasgow was written about the intensity of survival and the kind of hope that springs up from the most desperate of times. Girl in Pieces focuses on a homeless seventeen-year-old girl named Charlie Davis who struggles with the trauma of abandonment after losing more loved ones than most people lose in a lifetime. She is haunted by the memories of her father and her memories of a horrific accident that happened under the bridge. Elis, her best friend, is gone forever. Her mother has nothing left to give her.
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver follows the travels of Taylor and her illegally adopted child Turtle from Tucson, their “home,” to Heaven, the Cherokee Nation’s “home.” Turtle and Taylor are each other’s family, but after appearing on Oprah, there are questions brought up by the Cherokee Nation about the adoption. While Taylor is on the run with Turtle, they pass through several towns and states, but the most significant setting is at the conclusion of the book when Taylor takes Turtle to Heaven, Oklahoma. The significance of this place is that this is the home of Turtle’s race, Cherokee, who she has never known nor met. Turtle and Taylor both admit to being scared to travel to Heaven, Oklahoma, but Taylor makes the decision as Turtle’s
This is an important role of poetry because everyone loses something precious to them at some point in their life. Her next example talks of a person who can receive
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “A Temporary Matter,” Shoba has given birth to a stillborn baby, not in the presence of Shukumar. This misinterpretation leads the couple to a rare amount of communication and leaves them with undeniable no connection or bond. On the contrary, a notice informs them that “the power will go out five days in a row”. Therefore, Shoba and Shukumar decide to share something about themselves each night, which eventually, leads them to get closer every night. Ultimately, the couple reveals their deep, hidden secrets, which had them wept, together.
Written post World War II, in a time when mourning soared above all else, Joanna H. Wos wrote the short story “The One Sitting There”. Written to aid her in mourning of her sister’s death due to starvation in war, Wos takes on a childlike bitterness in her writing. This bitterness stemming from her abundance of food juxtaposed with her sister’s lack of food explains her stubborn refusal to throw the food away. Wos presents a child-like tone through her syntax of telegraphic sentences. Furthermore, she discloses certain personal memories through flashback to compare the importance of food when it abounds to when it does not.
Life of Pie The book i read was Life of Pi by Yann Martel. The main character was Pi Patel. He was a fourteen year old Indian boy from Pondicherry India.
