{"id":19275,"date":"2025-05-04T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2025-05-04T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:04:51","slug":"week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/2025\/05\/04\/week-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think Raymond Carver\u2019s idea makes sense. Everyday things, like a chair or a quilt, can have a lot of meaning when described simply. It shows that you don\u2019t need big words or dramatic moments for something to feel powerful often, it\u2019s the small details that stick with you the most. One example of this is In Langston Hughes\u2019s \u201cSalvation,\u201d it\u2019s a great example of commonplace but precise language when he says, \u201cI buried my head under the quilts.\u201d A quilt is such an ordinary object we often don\u2019t think twice about, but here it holds so much emotional weight. That small moment captures his need to hide, to escape the guilt and sadness he\u2019s feeling after pretending to be saved. Hughes doesn\u2019t\u00a0 use dramatic language; he keeps it simple, which makes it hit even harder. It\u2019s a quiet detail, but it speaks volumes about what he\u2019s going through inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Raymond Carver\u2019s idea makes sense. Everyday things, like a chair or a quilt, can have a lot of meaning when described simply. It shows that you don\u2019t need big words or dramatic moments for something to feel powerful often, it\u2019s the small details that stick with you the most. One example of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-13-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19277,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2025-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}