So I was attempting to take this last blog seriously. Go out with a bang. Write a blog with some real and impressive insights. I was going to write a blog about the double lives all the characters were leading their search for something genuine and real in the world. Instead, I found myself thinking …
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Heathcliff: A trilogy
Usually I try to write a blog that hits on key scenes or themes of the novel as a whole, but it wouldn’t feel right to leave my Heathcliff trilogy incomplete. So here is yet another blog about Heathcliff. As you probably know from my last two blogs, I don’t like Heathcliff as a person. …
Part 2 of Heathcliff???
(Quick Disclaimer: I have not wanted to read anymore until I wrote this blog, but I have procrastinated writing it for two days now, so this blog only contains info from chapters 1 – 25.) Heathcliff is one of the most interesting and complex characters I have read about in a long time. It is …
Can we just talk about Heathcliff for a second?
So it’s 1 AM and I really just need to get this blog done. I have put off this first blog for way too long because I really don’t feel like I have anything really insightful to say yet. The only class discussions that I really participate in are the ones after we finish a …
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Migrants vs. Immigrants
This is not the type of blog I usually write, but I thought it was a really interesting distinction that I felt was worth delving deeper into. While the entire story line of Exit West centers around the idea of people fleeing their country and seeking new lives in a different country, Mohsin Hamid never …
Don’t Judge a Book or Marriage by Its Cover
*Seriously this play has the most boring cover I have ever seen. This entire weekend, I have been racking my brain for something, anything, meaningful to say about Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and, still, I have nothing. It is not a lack of debatable material in this play, Albee provides plenty, that …
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The Inadequacy of the Courts
During class discussion about Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere on Friday, I made a statement that everyone, myself included, can agree was pretty stupid. Trying to be deep and show a soul for once in my life, I said “The saddest part about this story is the fact that the courts even had to get …
Song of Solomon gives me PTSD to A Prayer for Owen Meany
The start of AP English was rough for me. A Prayer for Owen Meany, the first book that we had to read, was a major miss. I hated it, causing me to majorly procrastinate on my reading. Every time I finally did open it, I would invariably slam it shut after some character said or …
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Attempts at Atonement
For my tenth birthday, my brother gave me the entire Harry Potter series. But the gift came with a stern stipulation from my parents. I could not read the last three until I was at least twelve. (Apparently the subject matter was too dark and morbid for my ten-year-old self to handle.) Two years did …
God and Guilt
As most of you probably know, my dad is a pastor. In addition to this he teaches world religion at the seminary. Growing up, every night before bed my dad would sit me down for our daily devotions, and on our hour long drives to and from soccer practice, he would often explain what Islam, …
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