The semester is finally coming to an end and I am just as anxious as I am relieved! I’m nervous because I know college is going to get harder and harder but I am relieve because I am finally taking a summer off (just from school though L). I learned a lot in this semesters English class. I really liked my English one teacher and was kind of ( Read more... )

 I had once read Oedipus in high school and had only heard people telling me what Antigone was about, I was pretty anxious to hear the story continued. I think Antigone is a story about revenge in a more subtle way. The story seemed to be revenge from the gods, I guess it can also be described as karma. The Ruler of Thebes, Creon, became ( Read more... )

For my research paper I chose Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman. At first, I had a hard time reading this book. I actually did not like Neverwhere until I was finished with it and looked back on it. Although Neverwhere had many very obvious themes, I did not notice a major theme until the novel came to an end. I thought the main theme of Neverwhere was ( Read more... )

 The narrator begins the story by discussing her house and how it is empty and extravagant, the description of the house is a questionable description of what kind of “home” it is. She later goes on to talk about her mental illness, how she suffers from depression. Since she suffers from a mental illness, she is given a the directions to do nothing ( Read more... )

 Emily Grierson is a woman who lived in an uppity part of town who is not required to pay taxes because at one point in time, her well-off father had given a large sum of money to the town. Although Emily’s father had passed away some time ago she is still not required to pay taxes. Later in the story, Emily’s home is described to have a home which ( Read more... )

 In “Happy Endings” by Margret Atwood, Margret Atwood involves her readers in her story. Also in “Happy Endings” Margret Atwood changed the idea of a perfect fairytale ending. Atwood creates a couple in the same situations but the endings are different, Atwood provides different scenarios; however, the ending is always the same. Margret Atwood ( Read more... )

  While trying to decide what to write about for my last few entries and trying to play catch up with comments, I started reading what other people did for their spring break. I decided to write this journal entry as a quick recap for the best spring break yet. This spring break I had not decided what I was going to do until the night before. At ( Read more... )

This week, one of the poem’s we had for another class reading was “A Supermarket in California,” by Allen Ginsberg.  In “A Supermarket in California,” Allen Ginsberg creates a picture of a supermarket in Berkeley, California in 1955. Allen Ginsberg also creates allusions of the past poet Walt Whitman strolling around the supermarket. Ginsberg also ( Read more... )