Sonny’s Blues shows how hard it is growing up surrounded by racism, discrimination, and violence. The author tries to show how important it is for family members to stick together if they are surrounded by these things so they can watch out for one another. The author, James Baldwin, uses family throughout the story as a place of stronghold and ( Read more... )

This short story has a rather sick and very interesting twist about the deliverance of news of a death to a wife. The author, Kate Chopin, actually creates this short story with two major twists and takes the reader off guard. The first twist to grasp the reader’s attention is when the wife finds out that her husband has passed she starts crying, ( Read more... )

On the Subway, by Sharon Olds, is a poem that describes the mind process of a rich white woman when she is left alone with a poor black boy on the subway. Throughout the poem, Sharon Olds tries her best to describe both the fear, and the guilt she feels for the young man. She helps the reader understand that the only reason this woman is afraid ( Read more... )

Love and other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape is a very interesting poem written only by the titles and artists names of famous love songs. This is a very fun and interesting poem for it goes through all the many phases one can go through when they are either in a relationship, looking for one, or just got out of one. It touches on all of the numerous ( Read more... )

This poem was a little hard to understand at first, but after a few times of reading and analyzing the poem I began to understand the author’s true meaning and purpose for the poem. I’m not sure if I’d do what he does if I was in his position though for he is completely engaged in the thought of who those people on the urn were and it interests him ( Read more... )

A great film that has literary merit in it is Big Fish. This film is the story of an ill father who revisits his life through stories he tells to his son. These stories of his life though are extraordinary and almost every single one has at least a couple of hyperboles in it. It is the exaggerations thought that makes these stories so great and ( Read more... )

There are numerous themes throughout Stranger Than Fiction that the reader can learn from and apply it to our everyday lives. The lessons like these include living your life to the fullest, learning to love, and stability isn’t everything. These lessons and themes are conveyed throughout the film mostly by the extremely odd life of Harold Crick. In ( Read more... )

I have seen Stranger Than Fiction many times before but have never had to actually think about it literally and just viewed it as a comedy.  The last couple of times I have watched this film I had just thought of it as a comedy because of Will Ferrell being in it, and didn’t think to imagine that it had any deeper meaning. This time upon watching ( Read more... )

The song “Closer” by Kings of Leon is a literary text to me because of all the literal devices it uses to make the listener feel a certain way towards the song. In order for a text to be literary it has to have a deeper meaning that what is given and must force the reader, or in this case listener, to connect with it on a personal level. “Closer” ( Read more... )