Leslie Marmon Silko is a Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, and an American novelist. One interesting fact I learned about her was that she admits that she prefers to write about male protagonists in her novels […]
The most memorable part of “Landscape, History and the Pueblo Imagination” is when Leslie Marmon Silko writes how humans cannot survive without the aid of the earth. Silko first broaches the idea in her ret […]
Sylvy is silent in the end because she chooses her relationship with the birds and the other wildlife over money. The very last page of the short story, it says, “The murmur of the pine’s green branches is in her […]
Le Guin wrote a story not of triumph, but of a warning tale of the consequences of the dark side of humanity. In the end, Selver and the native Athsheans succeed in having the Terrans removed from their planet, […]
Captain Davidson’s perception of the natural environment on Asthe can be explained by this quite: “New Tahiti was mostly water, warm shallow seas broken here and there by reefs, islets, archipelagoes, and the fiv […]
In Volume II, Chapter II, Victor, in an attempt to feel better from his self-inflicted sickness, surrounds himself in the most beautiful settings possible. Being in places of sublime nature, Victor hopes to get […]
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she portrays Victor Frankenstein as an educated man. From the very beginning, she shows the readers that Victor’s beliefs, spurred on by his father in his earlier years, is that mod […]
Ariel, appearing as a harpy, tells Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio, they are the reason for the tempest that brought them to the island to be stranded. The freak storm that caused the shipwreck was due to karma […]
The second scene of the first act of The Tempest gives the readers the history of what happened before the shipwreck described in scene 1. The most important prehistory described in scene 2 was the history of the […]