Author Archives: prisciliaadodo

I don’t really feel like I’m looking into another person’s life when I read this book, because most of the stuff Nazneen goes through I can totally relate in every way. I think this is something every immigrant at a … Continue reading →

William and gracearumlee post are so right about the cultural discrimination and there are evidence of this every day. For example, I attended a meeting where someone spoke about a book drive and volunteering. That is, tons of book were … Continue reading →

I love how this novel stress the essence of culture, how the food they eat, the clothes they wear and even forcing their children to recite  some poem that they do not like. In my options, the daughters where the fascinating … Continue reading →

I agree with Gabriana94 Mrs. Azad is also my favorite character. She does not fit into the common idea of what a middle-eastern women would be like. She speaks her mind, boss her husband and also drinks bear which I … Continue reading →

Post Colonialism is a topic I have covered in almost all of my history classes. This is because, the Europeans basically invaded every continent on this earth based on very weak claims. It’s quite interesting to see how this ties … Continue reading →

Hallucination is one most powerful force present throughout the book and seem to be the driving motif of most of Macbeth’s action. For example, Macbeth saw a  dagger covered in blood floating in the air which led him to kills Duncan. Again he … Continue reading →

The three witches in Macbeth are not bored nor are they wicked. They are the link between Macbeth and the evil he is about to commit. Although they made the prediction that made him turned evil, that does not mean … Continue reading →

I like this because of the way it was narrated, the tone everything. The speaker in this story, always made sure that the grief another character in the story is feeling is shown. For example the grief Dr. Ranganathan was … Continue reading →

I really like this chapter and the information it presented about looking at history as a piece of work that can have different meaning to different people rather than just facts from years long past. When the example about the … Continue reading →

Response to crayford28 This was a very interesting story filled with irony and symbolism all centered on the prophet’s hair. The prophet’s hair in the story is cursed because it has been removed from the holy place of worship, to … Continue reading →

Psychoanalysis is one topic I never expected to cover in literature, seeing that most of the concept has to do with philosophers of psychologist breaking down every single concept that man live by and trying to figure out why they … Continue reading →

In my opinion, Henry did commit suicide, but I don’t think he means to at first. Jumping into the river was just a freeing moment for him, where all his problems just seemed to fade away. But then- just like … Continue reading →

“Sad steps”, the name actually reflect what the poem is all about which is losing one’s youthfulness. Larkin makes very good use of imagery to project the scene of the person in the poem at the beginning. When I read … Continue reading →

In the poem “Daddy” the theme fear is seen almost throughout the poem as well as the theme of liberation. The poets gives an imagery of Jews in the concentration camps as a symbolism to her relationship with her father. … Continue reading →