For my final essay, I think my thesis will be something along the lines of “Adichie utilizes narrative structure in several of her short stories, including “The Headstrong Historian”, “Tomorrow is Too Far”, a […]

VanZanten’s argument is that “The Headstrong Historian” is an expansion of Things Fall Apart that manages to improve upon the novel’s discourse without sacrificing its integrity. The essay is divided into three m […]

I would say that “The Danger of a Single Story” is super relevant to all of her previous stories, as they all touch on the adverse effects of stereotyping, specifically in regards to Africans and African wom […]

One really simple yet obvious narrative distinction between Luster and “The Thing Around Your Neck” is that while Luster is written in the first-person, “The Thing Around Your Next” is actually written […]

I think the ending of this novel is pointedly ambiguous and subject to interpretation, and for that reason, my feelings so far are pretty indecisive. I don’t really have an answer for how these women understand e […]

The clearest motif I’ve been able to identify in Luster thus far is the recurring presence of cockroaches. By my count, they are mentioned four times in the first four chapters. Their first appearance comes a […]

I have to admit, I was hoping I’d get an easier character for this assignment than Beverley. I think Beverley’s character is a little tricky; we don’t see her behave nearly as candidly as any of the white chara […]

The comment I posted ended up being pretty extensive, so I’m not sure how much room I have left in me to elaborate (whoopsie). But yeah, I’ve been spending a little bit of time analyzing what being “lifted” is, […]

So far, I have a lot of questions about Klara and the Sun, which I suppose is fairly natural, given that we’re only a little more than halfway through the story. Also, as I’ve come to realize, the story is nar […]

I think what surprised me the most about Leila Chatti’s Reading was the tone and voice with which she read her work. I found it to have a very gentle, delicate, and perhaps melancholy air throughout the entirety o […]

What would you have done if you hadn’t gotten better? What do you have to say to those that don’t?

I’m not sure what to say about the ending of this book. To be honest, I’ve been trying all day, and I ca […]

For this week, I’ve chosen to analyze Leila Chatti’s poem, “MARY SPEAKS”. This poem is composed of six stanzas, the first being a tercet, followed by four couplets, and finally, a monostich. The poem only feature […]

The first time that Elizabeth Bishop states, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”, in the first line of the poem One Art, she is simply suggesting that it’s easy to lose things. In the third line, she states […]

I want to preface my response to this assignment by noting that a lot of the poetic feet I found in “everyday life” are sourced pretty directly from music, which might be a little less organic than what was […]