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This is the second half of my ranking of novels I read this semester. While I enjoyed all three of these I’d put a gap between the top 2 and number 3. #3– Pudd’nhead Wilson I’ve written quite a few blogs already on this one but I found the premise to be super amusing. TheContinue reading “Short Blog #8 (Top Six Novels of the Semester Part Two)”

Since today was our last class day of the year I decided to rank my favorite novels from this semester. I’ll break this into two blogs so I don’t have to completely condense my opinions on each one.  #6- Day of the Locust While it’s my least favorite of the novels we read this semester,Continue reading “Short Blog #7 (Top 6 Novels of the Semester Part 1)”

I found the format of The Color Purple interesting. By breaking the story up into ninety-one letters, Alice Walker is able to write from the perspective of Celie, conveying events in a retrospective sense while also making the emotion feel more raw and genuine. She writes at first to God and later to her sisterContinue reading “Short Blog #6”

While reading Pudd’nhead Wilson, I unlocked a memory of a movie I had watched years ago but had repressed deep into my mind. Monte Carlo is a 2011 Selena Gomez movie that involves a poor tourist switching places with an ultra rich princess during a vacation in Monte Carlo (thus the title). Considering the targetedContinue reading “Short Blog #5”

As I read Pudd’nhead Wilson, I was drawn to Twain’s use of fingerprint technology, which was extremely new at the time. However, it wasn’t the technology itself that peaked my interest but rather how he tied it in to his main theme. It doesn’t take a literary expert to determine that Twain is making someContinue reading “Pudd’nhead Wilson Long Blog”

Throughout Puddn’head Wilson, fingerprint identification plays a pivotal role in the progression of the plot. Puddn’head offers to take the fingerprints of Tom and Chambers, who are later switched by Chambers’ mom Roxy. This fingerprint identification is the only link to the two boys’ true identities. Since the novel was written in 1894, I wasContinue reading “Short Blog #4”

So far in The Hate U Give, I have really empathized with Starr, the main character and narrator. She has been dealt a tough hand, having to cope with her childhood best friend being shot by the police right in front of her. While this is something that would obviously be traumatic for anyone, itContinue reading “The Hate U Give Short Blog Dominic”

“At this time Tom knew very little about them except that they had come to California to die” (60). Stated on just the second page of the novel, West quickly establishes just how tough it was to make it in Hollywood during its Golden Age. This fact could be clearly witnessed not just in theContinue reading “Vogel Short Blog #2”

One night I left my copy of The Grapes of Wrath at home. Not wanting to fall behind in the reading, I scoured the internet for a pdf copy. Luckily, quite a few were publicly available, including one with the cover above. Immediately, I was intrigued. The cover appealed to me in a way thatContinue reading “Short Blog- Grapes of Wrath Cover Analysis”

Throughout what I have read so far, much of the novel has revolved around alcohol in some form. The majority of characters are constantly drinking, likely using it as a coping mechanism to escape from the war. No matter what a person’s occupation, it appears most have a drink within an arm’s length at allContinue reading “Vogel Farewell To Arms Practice Blog”