In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, the author uses stage directions to give us a better understanding on what the premise of the story is by telling us what the characters do and how […]
After finishing Benito Cereno, I believe the Herman Melville depicted enslavement in a positive light and Delano’s blindness plays a part into this. You see, in the mind of Delano he sees both the slaves and […]
In Chapter 6 of Literary Theory by Johnathan Culler, the author mentions that the 2 things that make up a story which are plot and discourse. In a story, plot is what determines the intro and the […]
In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory, Johnathan Culler discusses how poetry and rhetoric are quite similar and yet very different in that poetry, while it uses rhetoric through the use of rhetorical figures and […]
In this chapter, the idea I found the most interesting about the relationship between language and meaning is how context can shape the meaning of a piece of literature by looking at what time period it was […]
In Chapter 2 of Literary Theory: a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler, the author talks about the nature of literature and shows different definitions of literature from other angles. Of all the angles […]
The most important aspect of this chapter I’ve gathered after reading the first 10 pages is that there are many ways to interpret what literature actually is, and how it is hard to define it. The author makes […]
My name is Waleed Shah. Currently, I am an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science about to start their 2nd semester at LaGuardia Community College.
My name is Waleed Shah. Currently, I am an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science about to start their 2nd semester at LaGuardia Community College. I think coding is a good fit for […]