The Carrier bag story was fresh in my mind (From working on the paper) when I read this story. So the part that stuck on me was when Leslie Marmon Silko began to describe the kinds of stories they would tell. It […]

The masculine figure in this story is the ornithologist, searching for a white bird to kill. But he’s really the villain of the story. The hero is the little girl. She knows she could get 10 dollars for her […]

There are two kinds of stories. The linear story of a hero that defeats his foes, and the “bag.” A “bag” story might not have a central conflict; it has what Le Guin describes as “bundle of medicine.” Science […]

“Your people left no trees there, so you can’t make a boat and sail from it. Nothing much grows there any more, so we shall have to bring you food and wood to burn. There’s nothing to kill on Rendlep. No tre […]

The dreams are really omens. They guide the natives in their actions, and this causes distress because they are lucid dreams and they cannot separate dreams from reality. They float in and out of consciousness. […]

“But he still couldn’t see why a soybean farm needed to waste a lot of space on trees if the land was managed really scientifically. It wasn’t like that in Ohio; if you wanted corn you grew corn, and no space […]

Do you agree with Bate’s argument that Frankenstein is the true monster? Why or why not?
I agree that Frankenstein is the true monster. According to Bates “Frankenstein’s crime…has been to deny the princ […]

The reason that Victor gives for destroying the female creature is provided in Chapter 20 page 202.“She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and w […]

Victor believes the monster is innately evil because he couldn’t believe any normal man could have the strength to commit the murder of his younger brother William. The creature learned about sympathy, love, […]

I agree with you the language employed; the author conveyed to me the same feelings using those elements of “Gothic language.”

In chapter 5, Victor said of his creation, “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled m […]

Agree with the chicken pox example! If only we can convince some of the people who still relies on old eastern medicine to switch over to modern medicine.

Tedious. Victor Frankenstein went into college with imagination and wonderment. But he was quenched with the modern scientific process. He struggled and adapted but never gave up his fascination with the ancient […]

“You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world, And what is in ’t, the, never-surfeited sea, Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island, Where man doth not inhabit, you ’ […]

The most important and memorable prehistory that lead to the events of the shipwreck was Act 1 scene 2 “My brother and thy uncle, call’d Antonio- I pray thee mark me- that a brother should be so perfidious,” (1.2. […]