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This semester in Great American Novels, my expectations weren’t super high, as it was senior year second semester. I didn’t plan on learning much and I was focused on summer. However, once the coronavirus ended our in-class school year, I kinda realized how much senior year second semester mattered to me. I wasn’t ready forContinue reading “Semester Reflection”

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when ourContinue reading “Grapes of Wrath – Quote Analysis”

#3- The Awakening The Awakening comes in at number three for me just because I thought it was a very well written novel, and I felt different emotions throughout the novel especially at the end. I usually don’t have feelings in a novel or book that I read, but this novel made me have someContinue reading “Top Six Novels of the Semester (Idea of from Dominic Vogel(ex)) Pt. 2”

#6- A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms was about two lovers and their love story, and it ended in one of the lovers dying in the end. The war was the only part of the novel that I was interested in, and the novel mainly focused on the love story, so it didn’tContinue reading “Top Six Novels of the Semester (Idea of from Dominic Vogel(ex))”

“The pigeon house pleased her. It at once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow. There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual. Every stepContinue reading “The Awakening – Quote Analysis”

Throughout the novel The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, foreshadowing is ever so present as Edna’s death is hinted at in multiple ways. Edna does not fit in with society and she strives to be free from society. Edna is constantly not happy with her marriage, lifestyle, and her role as a mother after she visitsContinue reading “Edna’s Death”

With everything going on in today’s current world (mainly the Coronavirus), people are doing everything necessary that they can to survive and get through this tough time. In Grapes of Wrath, the Joads had the same mindset that we have currently, and that mindset is to survive at all costs. Currently, we are staying safeContinue reading “Grapes of Wrath Connection”

First off, what exactly is a Great American Novel? A GAN requires a certain type of criteria for the novel itself to be considered a GAN. The type of criteria is as follows: American content, style, relevancy, characterization, limitations, and the content of the novel. So now, the prompt that I will be focusing onContinue reading “Wolf of Wall Street- Long Blog”

Jordan Belfort, the main character in The Wolf of Wall Street, is a very charismatic person that focuses on his success. He will do whatever is necessary for him to live a luxury lifestyle which includes putting himself above others. He constantly uses drugs, money, and sex to cope with all his problems, which makesContinue reading “Borgelt -Wolf of Wall Street”