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The sun gleams high in the sky, offering a comforting warmth to all who reside within its domain. A graceful breeze licks the water down below, and golden granules of sand are polished to perfection by the waves which lap at the shore in a serene, steady rhythm. Ancient mountains encircle the picturesque landscape, seamlessly…
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The start of school and sports is always hectic, but finally I’ve had some time to write. The Prius was in the family before I was. I rode in the cheeky little car nearly every day of my first decade of school, starting down the hill I lived on then twisting and turning through the…
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Each spring, I know the flowers are sweetest when I hear the sound of bees. It is an inimitable sound, or, rather, a feeling. I’ll step outside and, a first faintly, then in crashing waves of sound, familiar buzzing will fill my ears, my eyes, my nose, my mouth, and I’ll know that spring has…
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Although I have been relatively inactive recently, I have big plans coming up! I will be starting a series of posts on novels or other pieces of literature related to bees. I have always loved bees, and I was inspired recently to combine my love for literature with my love for these apian friends of…
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Today in class I focused on the idea of decay in Giovanni’s Room. We began by talking about the description of David’s mother and the word “putrescent,” (10) and how he views her as a sort of zombie. She persists in his life despite her death, haunting him and “ruling” over him as a child.…
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Today we had a test to wrap up our unit on the Harlem Renaissance. We were given a new poem we had never seen before, which was “America” by Claude McKay. Here is a link to the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44691/america-56d223e1ac025 We had 45 minutes to answer two questions, 1) What does “America” mean to McKay? and…
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We spent class today looking for quotes to support an argument after receiving five prompts to choose from to write our next essay on. I chose the prompt that invited analysis of the message conveyed by the novel regarding dreams, hopes, or idealizations. By the end of the period, I had a pretty decent idea…
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This is another excerpt from my in-class essay on Passing, by Nella Larsen, which I wrote across three class periods. Just for reference, here is my thesis again: Irene’s desire, especially that for Clare, in the novel relates ideas of race and sexuality to authenticity, and conveys the idea that to be authentic to yourself…
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Here is an excerpt from my recent essay on Passing. We were given five prompts to choose from, and I chose to write about Irene’s desire for Clare in relation to race and sexuality. We were given two 45 minute class periods and 20 additional minutes to write our essays, and we were told to…
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I was recently talking about my upcoming English midterm with my father when I had a thought I found rather interesting. I was thinking about how diction can determine how an idea is conveyed in a novel, and whether it comes from the narrator or the character and how that affects the reader’s understanding of…
