—Anonymous Junot Diaz’s Miss Lora is a story centering on a cross-generation relationship between Yunior and Miss Lora. The story is first published in The New Yorker in 2012, which is relatively new than most stories we have read in this course before. Compared to Endgame and other stories that we have read earlier in […]
Contemporary (2001–Present)
What surprised me the most …
— Anonymous What surprised me the most when I was reading Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio was the amount of times when the characters would knowingly be ignorant or be racist. The first example given to us in the book is the interaction between Benedetta and Parviz. Since they are both […]
Its reasonable to say …
— Anonymous Its reasonable to say that one point everyone has felt out of place feeling isolated from others. Through out my life this has been a big issue constantly thinking of ways to lie to satisfy those around me. While reading “ Clash of Civilization Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio” topics of immigration, […]
I have chosen the “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator”…
—Ronaldo Neziraj I have chosen the “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio”. The book is a great choice for me, i learned a lot from it especially after we carefully analyzed it. One of the main features of the book is having multiple narrators give their version of the story, which directly […]
When reading the title, I thought this was going to be any other boring book…
—Anonymous When reading the title, I thought this was going to be any other boring book, I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it or really follow through. It’s hard for me to actually like a book but as I read the first page, I found the first paragraph humorous, I related to Parviz […]