CR Post 3 – Monster Novel
O’Brien: “My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury” page 25 I found this quote to be very relevant…
Close Reading #3 Monster
“When Miss O’Brien looked at me after we had won the case, what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?” P.281 This is from Steve’s journal reflection 5 months after the trial ended. He…
CR#3 Monster
Monster by Walter Dean Myers “Downtown New York was almost empty on Sundays. The thousands of people who streamed trough the streets on weekdays were away in their homes. I was looking for Jerry. They didn’t allow kids in the…
CR Post #3 – A Lesson Before Dying
As I read the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines, there were many recurring details such as the hog, the chair and religion. Alongside those three, there was another object, the Pecan tree. At first, it simply felt that…
Critical Reading Post #3: Women In A Lesson Before Dying
Martyrdom in A Lesson Before Dying is an massive theme, apparent in the Christ mythos that pervades the novel and the comparison that Gaines draws between the Savior and Jefferson. Less overt, however, is the running compliment of the Virgin…
Critical Reading Post #3 A Lesson Before Dying
In the novel A Lesson Before Dying there is the recurring idea of heroes and what it means to be a hero. The first time this is really seen is in the Rainbow Room after Grant has returned from seeing…
Critical Reading Post Three for American Born Chinese
The story of starts with an old Chinese parable told by his mother. The parable talks about a mother and son who live in different places. First they live near a market and the son imitates the merchants he sees….
CR #3: American Born Chinese
The first tale told in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese is about the Monkey King. He thinks very highly of himself as the king and a deity but when he goes to the dinner party for deities, he is…
CR Post 3
While reading American Born Chinese, I found it very interesting how, although the entire book is a cartoon, the characters that were more stereotypically Asian, had more absurd, unrealistic, and/or cartoon-like features. For example, Jin is Chinese, but his eyes…
American Born Chinese CR#3
In the “American Born Chinese” written by Gene Luen Yang the writing styles between the first story of the Monkey King differs from the second story of Jin Wang. In the story of the Monkey King there were some words…