Locked.

Both her her hair and gaze.

Eyes that held more stories than a village elder of an ancient tribe. Hair, kinked and coiled from the crown of her head,

She wore crowns in her dreads,

As […]

Sundiata as amazing. Both as a character and as a piece of writing.

The Griot is the best character in my honest opinion. I love a good narrator. The Griot sounds like a wise and bitter older sibling. The way […]

Sundiata is one of my favorite reads of the semester. I enjoy when I can connect to a text (although it is not necessary for me to connect to a text in order to enjoy it), and I had none of that all semester. I […]

As I mentioned in previous posts, I very much enjoyed Dante’s The Inferno along side analyzing it with modern recreations or work that was inspired by it.

In Canto 15, Dante meets Brunetto Latini and Ser […]

Reading the inferno was a very interesting experience, as I had played the PS4 game, Dante’s Inferno, where you play as the crusader who is on a journey to rescue his lover in paradise.

I have also watched […]

As mentioned in my last entry,the witches are agents that spur Macbeth into action.

Lady Macbeth, is interesting. While primarily viewed as an agent for encouraging Macbeth to kill the king, she plays a […]

I have always loved Shakespeare. growing up, I had watched and read several renditions of his works. Naturally, I was excited to read Macbeth, a play I had never got the chance to get my prepubescent hands […]

I did not enjoy Oedipus the kind very much.Although i am both a self proclaimed writer (poetry mainly) and an avid reader, I do not like the olden styles of writing. This almost ancient story and writing style […]

In the Odyssey, women play a completely different role than is commonly seen in literature. Although this was written at a time where women were seen as objects and means of sex. They were dominated and held to […]

In the first few books of the Odyssey, it is clear the that Gods are more like intelligent meddlers. The God’s depict the future of humans as well as how their lives will play out. Gods have the ability to  […]

John the Baptist, as his name depicts, is a Baptist. He preaches in the wilderness of Judea (Matt. 3:1) and speaks the word of the kingdom of heaven. He travels around Jerusalem, baptisting people as they c […]

In the narrative, dreams are used as a medium between God and man as a form of communication. In the beginning of man, God would speak directly to Adam, the first man, to give him the information he needed. Now, […]

In “Hymn of Man”, the narrator tells us that the world was created from a thousand headed and legged man. That when he eats, he grows. Three quarters of the man rose up, spreading in all directions to create […]

According to the narrator, the universe was created through thoughts and desire. In the beginning, there was only water and darkness, then, the first aspects of life, desire and passion, gave way to existence. […]