“Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat and “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver have different writing styles but are similar in a certain way. In “Another Evening at the Club,” the story is written in the third person. The author doesn’t focus on the emotions the young woman is going […]
Anayeli Maximino Crescencio
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I am not an immigrant to the U.S., but my parents are. My parents immigrated to the U.S. before I was born so that they could have a better life. Years passed and I was born. One vignette that resonates with my childhood is “My Name” because of my unique […]
Rene Korb discussed the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, as an “inverted fairy tale” because it’s not a fairytale we are used to reading. The story starts by introducing a 15-year-old girl named Connie living with her mom who lectures her, […]
Reading a poem involves having an open mindset and analysis. The poem “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, involves two components: attitude and technique to help the audience have an understanding of the love she was in with her former lover. For example, imagery is shown in […]
COVID-19 was an unexpected event for everyone and changed our lives. We had to adjust and accept what was happening. There were a lot of arguments about COVID such as whether the vaccine is effective. I was a sophomore in high school. Going to school and seeing my friends not […]
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 […]
Having “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World ” by Gabriel Garcias Marquez as the first story of the course is to open the audience’s mind and think outside the box. I was confused about the short story the first time I read it but after reading it a couple […]
