— Anonymous After reading the short story “Miss Lora” by Junto Diaz, we could see that Miss Lora is compelling to the main character, Yunior. Miss Lora is a middle-aged teacher while Yunior is a high school student. When I first read the story, it made me uncomfortable to see their cross-generational relationship. Miss Lora […]
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A highly experimental and weird play
— Anonymous I read the play “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett at home after we moved to remote learning. During our current moment of self-quarantine, we are in a similar situation Hamm and other characters are in. We could not go outside, just like Hamm and Clov. Samuel Beckett is a modernist writer and “Endgame” is […]
Family no matter what
— Anonymous I consider James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” to be a great work. This story conveys a message and gets people to rethink their lives and how we treat others as well as family. The underlying message in this short story is also relatable to us in 2020 and will be relevant to us […]
The complexity of being human
— Anonymous I read the text “What is Enlightenment” by Immanuel Kant in the school library at the beginning of the semester. In my opinion, what makes a great literature is that it should have a theme and it should explain the relevance of the theme. The excerpt from Immanuel Kant has an essential theme […]
The essence of reality for how it truly is
— Jose Marin I am usually never the one to be in an uncomfortable situation. However, it still happens to me every now and then. During the duration of the English 2850 course, I have come across texts that have impressed me, opened my mind, or a combination of the two. A lot of these […]
