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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 proveContinueContinue reading “Between Two Kingdoms review”

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 herContinueContinue reading “Educated review: a story of self-empowerment”

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 whileContinueContinue reading “Fiction analysis: “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle””

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 betweenContinueContinue reading “Fiction analysis: “The Inheritance of Loss””

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 useContinueContinue reading “Fiction analysis: “Breath””

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 thatContinueContinue reading “Poetry analysis: “The Man with the Saxophone””

Poetry analysis: “The Myth of Music”

Music can mean many things: from the carrier of creativity to the expression of anger, sadness, and other complex human emotions, the melody conveys special meanings to the listeners. To the narrator of the poem, music represents home, comfort, childhood memories, and a sense of pride and identity of the narrator. Using extensive literary devicesContinueContinue reading “Poetry analysis: “The Myth of Music””

Brave New World

In a world where the concepts of family, marriage, love, science, religion, and loyalty no longer exists, a character who has parents become the marginalized when entering into the Brave New World. In the book Brave New World, Huxley juxtaposes two worlds into one setting, where the Savage Reservation coexists with the civilized Brave NewContinueContinue reading “Brave New World”

“Love”

Good literature challenges expectations, preexisting norms, and grand paradigms that people have taken granted for; it defies conformation and refuses to be blind to human emotions and experiences; good literature experiments with the human conditions and ultimately brings more wisdom to the human world than anything else can. Brazilian author Clarice Lispector’s story “Love,” withContinueContinue reading ““Love””

A new way to see the world–The Three Ecologies

Guatarri’s The Three Ecologies relentlessly and poignantly challenges our simple conception of ecology. It creates a multi-dimensioinal definition of the concept, expanding the scope to now encompass mental ecology, social ecology, and of course, environmental ecology, with an ecosophical perspective on our conception of subjectivity. In fact, Guatarri completely denounces the clear-cut definitions separating ecologyContinueContinue reading “A new way to see the world–The Three Ecologies”