November 2011
2 posts
David Foster Wallace- Big Red Son & Authority and...
Part I
1.” But far away the CES’s most popular venue, with total attendance well over 100,000 every year, is what is called the Adult Software exhibition, despite the fact the CES itself treats the Adult tradeshow kind of like the crazy relative in the family and keeps it way out in what used to be the parking garage of the sands hotel.”
Yes:” Software” Is a funny...
Maxine Hong Kingston-No Name Women & Amy Tan- Half...
” But how would this tiny child without family find her grave when there would be no marker for her anywhere, neither in the earth nor the family hall?”
How would the little baby know who she was. No one would treat her well because she would be known as the child that comes from a lady that cheated on her husband while he was away working. She was made by a women who commited...
September 2011
5 posts
Rudolph Fisher, Claude McKay, & Countee Cullen
During the early 1900’s, the burgeoning African American middle class began pushing a new political agenda that advocated racial equality. The epicenter of this movement was in New York, where three of the largest civil Rights groups established their headquarters. W.E.B DuBois was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement at this time. DuBois along with a group of African American...
Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock-Wallace Stevens/...
The characteristics that Disillusionment of Ten O’ Clock has to show that it is and modern poem is unconventional use of a metaphor. An example from the story is ” The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, None of them are strange, with socks of lace And beaded ceintures.” Another is juxtaposition the...
Kate Chopin-The Storm Neg Creol
The theme for the story “The storm” is cheating. Bobinot and his son Bibi was at a store waiting for a storm to pass the mans wife was at home waiting for her husband and son to get back and while she was waiting a gentleman named Alcee asked if he could stay in the house until the storm passed they ended up having sex when her husband and son made it home they all sit to the table...
George Washington Cable- Belles Demoiselles...
1. The precise relationship between Colonel and Charlie is that Charlie was a distant relative on the Choctaw side.
2. When he says the colonel is noblesse by this he means more upscale, known for having plenty of money, and well known by many people because of the clothes that they would wear or maybe even the things they would buy. When he says Charlie is low-down he means that he is most...
Mark Twain-fenimore's cooper's lieracy offence
Part I
1. That a tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere. But the Deerslayer tale accomplished nothing and arrives in the air.
3. They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overloaded in the Deerslayer tale.
4. They require that...
August 2011
2 posts
Emily Dickerson- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
For this poem i feel that she is explaining the sounds that you would hear if attending a funeral. ” Mourners to and fro Kept treading- treading” from that i get that in her mind she was hearing people walking back and forth viewing the body. When she uses the word service that’s the key word that jumps out to me and left me know its really a funeral. ” And then i heard...
Walt Whitmann- Leaves of Grass
In this piece of writing i believe that when he uses “the grass” Whitman is observing a person. He puts that he is at ease and makes it seems that he is watching another person. He could call his work Leaves of Grass because possibly he could have been writing this poem during the summer. When i first read the poem the first thing that popped into my mind was the grass represented...