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Between Two Kingdoms review
Challenging the Comeback Trope: The Illness Narrative as a Narrative of Vulnerability As consumers of popular culture, we are obsessed with the comeback trope. From Marvel movies to classic works of literature, we have been fed with stories where the protagonists face immense challenges, are humiliated but determined to improve their conditions, and eventually proveContinue…
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Educated review: a story of self-empowerment
My parents often speak of education, of how it transforms lives and helps people dismantle stratification. Education has been the core of my dad’s story of self-making, and now it is becoming my own. To Tara Westover, author of the memoir Educated, education renews her vision and awakens her awareness of the world, freeing herContinue…
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Fiction analysis: “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle”
Under Freud’s theories of psychodynamics, the id houses people’s primitive, unconscious desires while the superego acts as the moral compass that controls the id. The passage demonstrates the perfect conflict between the id and the superego and presents a hilariously intense confrontation between who characters who show mutual hostility and contempt towards each other whileContinue…
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Fiction analysis: “The Inheritance of Loss”
The environment reveals the people. More broadly speaking, the ways that the narrator describes the environment and its impacts on the characters disclose the internal thoughts and emotional states of humans. In the passage, Desai uses figurative language to create vivid imagery of the choking tranquility of the environment, employs the use of contrast betweenContinue…
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Fiction analysis: “Breath”
While the incident reflects the childishness of the young boys, it also reveals the different emotions experienced by Bruce Pike, whose characters shine through as he transitions from an observer to an active protagonist. Winton uses the shift of point of view and contrast to establish potential reactions to the incident and employs the useContinue…
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Poetry analysis: “The Man with the Saxophone”
During each thought-provoking encounter in literary pieces, the narrators confront a mirror that reflects a piece of themselves back into their eyes—whether it is their internal struggles or peace. During the interesting encounter between the speaker and the saxophone player, the narrator in the poem sees through the saxophone player voices in his head thatContinue…
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