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Jareefah Masna wrote a new post on the site Environmental Literature

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:48:46 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Wednesday August 12, on the site Environmental Literature

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:45:16 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Tuesday, August 11th, on the site Environmental Literature

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:17:45 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Tuesday August 4th, on the site Environmental Literature

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:37:34 -0400

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, […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Thursday July 30th, on the site Environmental Literature

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:39:23 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Thursday July 23rd, on the site Environmental Literature

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:06:33 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for Wednesday July 22, on the site Environmental Literature

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:11:42 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, In-Class Blog Post, on the site Environmental Literature

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:39:54 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna commented on the post, Homework for July 14, 2020, on the site Environmental Literature

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:30:42 -0400

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 […]

Jareefah Masna became a registered member

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:09:29 -0400