— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the course, in the story “Sonny Blues” by James Baldwin was a short story that expressed the dominant themes and images from Baldwin’s life. The story demonstrates Baldwin’s ability to transform his social and political concerns into modern art. The story talks mainly about deterioration, religion, drug addiction, and World War […]
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One of the pieces that made me feel uncomfortable …
— Anonymous One of the pieces that made me feel uncomfortable during the semester was “Juliette” By Marquis de Sade. When I read it the first time around, I couldn’t believe some of the things that Sade said. At first, it was a little hard to understand the story relative to the theme, so I […]
One of the pieces I didn’t really understand …
— Anonymous One of the pieces I didn’t really understand when I first read it was, “The Toughest Indian in the World” by Sherman Alexie. When I read it the first time, it didn’t really make sense to me. An Indian leaving his village going to live in the modern world ends up having sex […]
One of the pieces I enjoyed reading …
— Anonymous One of the pieces I enjoyed reading the most was, “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov. I was able to connect to it from the beginning because Chekhov was a prominent author at the end of the 19th century just before the formation of the Soviet Union. My parents immigrated to […]
When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”…
—Anonymous When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”, the describe on the culture identities makes me feel very uncomfortable. In this article, the narrator picks up an Indian hitchhiker who makes a living fighting other Indians on reservations in illegal, bare-knuckle matches. To the narrator, he represents a modern-day warrior, a savior who can […]
