Category Archives: Class Blog

Senator Sanchez was a powerful money hungry man who only had six months and eleven days to live went to the city of Rosal de Virrey for his reelection speech. He was married to a German woman and had five … Continue reading →

“The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov is depicting a story of a forty-year-old man named Dmitri Gurov with a young married woman named Anna Sergeyevna where they ended up having an affair. One thing that caught my attention … Continue reading →

The Lady and the Dog   The Lady and the Dog is a story about the affair between Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna . Gurov was a Russian banker spending a season in Yalta when he takes interest in this new woman … Continue reading →

The book “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf is made based on her lecture at The British Women’s Colleges of Girton and Newnham. That fact makes clear that the target of this book is women or female writers. … Continue reading →

Shilei Chen En2850   After reading “Diary of a madman” I believe although the main character is a suffering from fear of persecution of “mad men”, but the thrust of the work is not to write down the working people … Continue reading →

Upon reading this poem it is very clear to me that the speaker feels very distant from the world he lives in. He says “To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” which leads me to believe … Continue reading →

Mirza Ghalib was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire. When I first read his “ghazals” I had a very difficult time understanding them. When I read them straight through they didn’t make sense to me. When … Continue reading →

Henrick Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabbler” highlights the decadent life of the lead Hedda. She is in a constant struggle as she battles for happiness and “freedom.” Through the play Hedda is obsessed with this theme of freedom, she admires Thea Alvsted … Continue reading →

  By Jennifer Ingrao “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen was definitely a work that surprised me a few times.  I would be sitting there reading it, never quite bored, but sometimes assuming I knew where it was going.  But several … Continue reading →

The “Goblin Market” poem, by Christina Rossetti, heavily symbolizes religion with its goblin, fruit, and the two sisters’ presentation. Rossetti describes two sisters Lizzie and Laura as very close sisters, who live alone without their parents. After Lizzie tried fruits … Continue reading →