— Anonymous I believe that “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” should be considered a work of great literature because of its ability to view a terrible moment in history (slavery) through a woman’s perspective. Whenever I read something about slavery its usually about the general population or about a man’s escape from […]
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Whenever she could seize a moment, she put her actuality into written words
— Anonymous At the beginning of the novel “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” the author Harriet Jacobs points out that Northerners have no knowledge of the slavery. Northerners think slavery as a ceaseless bondage with the Southerners. They have no ideas of the word slavery that entails with ceaseless humiliation. Linda Brent […]
The most important point that caught my attention was the injustice
— Anonymous Fuenteovejuna is a Spanish village. During the historical period of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century the villagers of Fuenteovejuna lived along with the commander and his retainers, the village magistrates and some other infamous personalities such as King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel. In all the reading the most important point that caught […]
A lens for analyzing the world and how women in general are perceived by Society
— Anuradha Rampersaud For the final reading response, I chose to write and reflect on The Arabian Nights. The beginning of this story with the two Kings; Shahrayar and Shahzaman. I felt like I connected well with this story because of the turning of events between the Men and the Women, something that has been […]
A work of literature that delivers a message to its readers
— Sumi Paul In my opinion, I believe the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is a great work of literature because it is a work of literature that delivers a message to its readers. Reading this poem was confusing at first, however after reading it a second time, I […]
