Whenever I’ve told people that I’m majoring in English, they jump to “oh so teaching?” No, not teaching. If I’m being honest, I don’t like kids. No, I chose the English major because my strengths lie with research, analyzing, connecting the dots and writing. I’ve already taken the English capstone…

Growing up, I never read “choose your own adventure” books, and didn’t even knew they existed till about high school when they were mentioned on a Family Guy episode. All I’ve had are assumptions: they’re kid books, it’s too easy to flip back and forth to get the good ending…

Why is this book so often taught to teenagers? What does it have to say to us at that age? What does it say now? For this one, I have some practical answers and some more opinionated answers. Practically? It’s a part of the literary canon. It represents the beliefs…

Reading the graphic novel version of Gatsby seems to be a combination of what I’m used to versus something totally new, I know that might seem a bit obvious. I haven’t read manga, a similar medium to graphic novels in Japan that is read right to left, since early high…

The Great Gatsby is probably my favorite classic American novel. I remember reading it in freshmen year of high school and inhaling the pages faster than they were assigned to be read. Maybe it’s because I’m a sucker for romance, or maybe because there was so much that could be…

This novel was definitely subversive to the traditional novel. Eventually, after the shock and confusion on the set up of the novel wears off, I found myself actually understanding the flow. While it hopped around from one story to another, they all connected in that one always mentioned the previous…

If I were to write a research paper on this, I would start by determining what kind of research the assignment needed. Is it an argumentative research, or is it a literature review kind of paper? Or is it just like a book report? The type of assignment it is…

(First I need to apologize for this post being late, I misread the course schedule) How does the story problematize the seeming authority and truth of a history book? What is history according to this story? What is the relationship between history and fiction? How are they similar? …

One novel that really had an impact on my mental health is Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. The main plot of the novel is young CeeCee Honeycutt who deals with a mother with her own mental illness, her father’s absence, her mothers death, and healing from her trauma. It…