Covid 19 was one of the biggest and scariest times I ever experienced being on this earth. I remember the first time hearing about this virus appearing on the other side of the world. Never in a million years I would think it would spread so quickly all around the […]
Monthly Archives: September 2023
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Looking back on the days when COVID-19 was a global pandemic, I can compare and contrast the responses of Americans to the crisis with the actions of the people of Thebes in “Oedipus the King” (Sophocles). In the opening scene of the play, the people of Thebes are shown to […]
After reading the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickenson, some themes noticed throughout the story were womanhood, marriage, and the subjection of women during this time period. The main one to focus on in my opinion would be marriage, as Dickenson expresses the feelings many women may have felt as […]
The theme in the nineteenth-century Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife” connects with the twentieth-century story “Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat because it mentions the gender norms during that time. In “Another Evening at the Club,” mentions how this young teenage girl, Samia, ends up getting married to […]
Dickinson’s Poem and Rifaat’s short story both reflect the patriarchal expectations women were expected to meet in their respective times in contemporary society. Though the times for each may have been different, the theme remains the same. Women were expected to shed everything in their lives and let their identities […]
Emily Dickinson’s poem perfectly depicts the burden and expectations society places on a woman and a wife. They are expected to be carefree, happy, supportive of their husbands, and beautiful. Women and wives are expected to conform to these social norms, even though they are individuals with independence. The notion […]
The theme in Emily Dickson’s poem “The Wife ” is echoed to the twentieth-century story “ Another Evening at the Club ” written by Alifa Rifaat by both stories being related to women being trapped by men. In the poem “The Wife” Dickinson describes the wife as a bird being […]
“The Wife” by Emily Dickinson and “Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat explore the constraints and societal expectations placed upon women within different centuries. While Emily Dickinson’s poem was written in the 19th century and Alifa Rifaat’s story was written in the 20th century, they both shed light […]
The theme of the poem “The Wife” is echoed in the story of “Another Evening at the Club” because it creates an emphasis and aurora of what women had to endure of their daily lives. It signifies that of the nineteenth century time period, men made the important and woman […]
The Poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson reveals the poet’s concerns for domestic femininity in middle-class families by expressing the gender roles of females and using the term “wife” frequently. Although she could never be a wife in her lifetime, the reflection of self-private and the domesticity of household females […]
Emily Dickinson poem “The Wife” is heavily echoed in the story “Another Evening at the club” by Alifa Rifaat. Dickson poems depicts the role of a women as being a accessory to a mans world and that same themed in demonstrated numerous times in the story by Rifaat. The first […]
In the short story, ” The Handsome Drowned Man in The World”, by Gabriel Gracia Marquez, the author discovers something he did not expect he’s curiosity about beauty and unexplainable what he had seen. In my opinion, this short story has a lot of meaning which is symbolic, Identity, and […]
In the short story” Salvation” by Langston Hughes. I think the author has a big confusion. Contrary to all expectations, a young Hughes is not saved by Jesus, but is saved from his innocence. While attending a church revival, he comes to the sudden realization that Jesus will not physically […]
In”The Wife,” the poem highlights the traditional roles and expectations of women in the 19th century. The poem shows how the wife as someone who is expected to be submissive, obedient, and supportive of her husband. In “Another Evening at the Club” the story is set in a more modern, […]
“The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story that touches on the theme of transformation. The village is transformed by the villagers. The villager’s hearts and minds are transformed by Esteban’s appearance and presence in their village. The story shows how one’s entire outlook […]
After reading “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” by Gabriel Marquez, I’m confused why this was assigned as the first story to read. In the title it says this is a “ tale for children”, but this was a very difficult read. The beginning threw me off completely as […]
As I thought about my response to this week’s Discussion prompt, I struggled through my typical drawn out laborious and painful process when it comes to writing. Though I have never lacked for imagination, I have often lacked an effective process to put what I have imagined into words. I […]
Having “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcias Marquez be the first course of this course is to expose us the a unique style of story telling. It will allow us to think more critically about what the narrative of the stories that we will be read […]
