For each blog post, there is a picture that I took included; the picture is not meant to directly relate to the text, however, the image is meant to accompany the blog post in a way for you to better enjoy the post and for further reflection purposes. While these […]
Monthly Archives: April 2020
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Chapter two of Junot Diaz’s book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, makes the fictional character feel personal and relatable. Diaz accomplishes this by doing a play-by-play of events, describing everything in detail. This chapter is told from the perspective of Lola at the age of around 14. As […]
The story “Carbon” from Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table encourages his audience to think about the writing process and the roots by tracing the life of a single carbon atom. Although it seems Levi’s book of short stories is about chemistry, it is not. The purpose of the story, “Carbon”, […]