I like how you said there is always a choice to be made. I think that’s important for us contemporaries to remember, especially with social media making it hard to not be emotionally detached from the suffering of others.

Good point about how the discrepancy in the Maggie memory mirrors societal tensions around race, identity, and guilt. It’s interesting how those points changed depending on who you mentally assign as the white […]

I thought it was really interesting how you said music is the only way for Sonny to express the struggle of his experience as a black man. I think that intepreation perfectly aligns with the person James Baldwin […]

Your point of how he uses communal personal pronouns to emphasize the connectedness of passengers is really interesting

One idea that stuck with me in Poe’s poem was the cycle of grief and depression that one can find themselves stuck in. This really resonated with me because the speaker’s grief was so profound, it touched eve […]