In Wise Blood, O’Connor does not shy away from the use of symbols in a conventional sense. She uses symbols that sometimes, seem just too obvious. The shrapnel in Haze’s chest obviously symbolizes a non-wound in his heart. To many readers, these symbols are too blunt and might take away from the novel’s meaning. It [...]
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Religion itself is something that has always fascinated me. The questions that it poses and the blind faith some people have, in spite of what science and modern discoveries tell us, impresses me. I wish I could have that same intense faith. That no questions asked, total and complete belief, but I don’t. But Flannery [...]
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The most striking part of the entire novel of The Moviegoer for me was Aunt Emily’s speech near the conclusion of the novel. She uses some phrases that strike me as extremely harsh. I suppose part of my viewing of this speech is biased because I have seen the entire novel through purely Binx’s eyes. [...]
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Today in our small groups, my group discussed how intelligence was measured and how smart we believed Binx actually was. Binx told us, during a conversation he was having with his aunt about why he didn’t get into research, that “actually I’m not very smart. My grades were average. My mother and aunt think I’m [...]
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The edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that I own contains early drafts of Kesey’s writings, sketches of his visions of the characters, interviews and literary criticisms of the novel. While reading this novel, I noticed connections between Moby Dick and this novel. The narration of Cuckoo’s Nest by Cheif Bromdon is very to the [...]
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Time has always been a facinating subject to me. I have never really gotten a grasp on what “time” actually is. It seems very concrete but at the same time, its fluid. In my opinion, time governs our lives. We live by time. The sun rises, so we begin our day, the sun sets, so [...]
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The idea of what a Home is for a person is explored throughly in “Song of Solomon”. Home is related to both the materialistic view and the not-so-materialistic view. Home relates to family, and for Milkman, his family is extremely weird. His parents hate each other, both doing their best to pull Milkman to their [...]
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I was first interested in reading A Clockwork Orange when it was assigned as an extra credit movie in psychology. Psychology was my favorite class and I knew that the movie had to be worth watching if it dealt with issues we were studying at the moment. But after learning the movie was based off [...]
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The growth of Emma’s character throughout this novel becomes exceedingly apparent when the character of Mrs. Elton is introduced. We immediately realize that Mrs. Elton is Emma at the beginning of the novel. By introducing Mrs. Elton, Austen allowed us to see how much Emma has actually changed through her interactions with other characters. The [...]
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Emma is my favorite novel we have read so far. I believe I am one of the few who enjoys the book, at least in our class, although my mother also stated that she could not stand the novel enough to get past the first 100 pages. I feel as though the characters in the [...]
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