20th Century

Milkman and Guitar has a long history in this book. Milkman and Guitar grew together, were always the best of friends and stood up for each other. Yet overtime, the relationship grew sour as the ending depicts both of them going at it, leading to what readers believe as a death of one of them, or even maybe both. Yet this development appears strange. Let's dive deeper Milkman grew up in a life of luxury, although hated by many other people in his community for his wealth accumulated by his father. Grown up to flaunt his wealth, he is surround by envy and expensive objects. Just like his dad, the dead family appears to not only wish to be the richest but also let other people know that they are indeed the richest people. This idea of being concern about his own image is seen constantly through the early parts of the book, such as his "rebellion" from his father's figure by changing how he looked, how he acted and "everything he dared." Yet, throughout the ...

Throughout the book, The Wide Sargasso Sea, we follow the story of Antoinette, a young girl born into an unlucky situation and turned mad. This story of Antoinette from normal girl to insane women that ended up suicide is what the main focus of this book is about. A reason given again and again in the book by the doctors in the story say that Antoinette simply has bad blood. Her mother went insane and because Antoinette was the daughter, Antoinette theoretically  inherited her insanity. At least according to the doctors. Yet, should this be taken for granted? Or did Antoinette and her mother get placed in a situation where insanity seems a possible cause? Her mother, Annette most definitely did not have an easy life. She starts off marring Alexander Cosway, someone not renown for being with one woman. Over the course of his life, he established himself as someone who sleeps everywhere, creating many illegitimate children in the process. After dying, Annette is l...

From the entire book, I was very ingredient by the plot and the sudden murder in middle of the book. Yet, out of every wack events that occurs in the book, such as the reason behind his murders and the reason behind the lack of emotion, the events that happened near the end of the book. In small 20 pages of the end, crazy events happened that decided if the character that we have been following would die or live a long jail sentence. In these two chapters, a question that pops out often is why does Mersault not lie about the events that happened? As we discussed in class, all of the events and evidence the court uses against Mersault were all said by him as he was the only living witness. In my opinion, Mersault appears to not be capable of looking at the future. Just as he cannot understand what good being married would be or the effects of getting a promotion, he cannot see the effects of manipulating the situation. It is seen time and time again that the court system is not that gre...

The Metamorphosis placed the main character in a very interesting position after being turned into a bug. The main character at the start didn't seem to be too bothered by it, as it appeared to just be an obstacle preventing him from going to work. Moreover, the interactions that Gregor mostly has is with his family. These interactions brings light to how his family thinks about him and how he thinks about his family, two almost complete polar thoughts in this book. Would Gregor's death be avoided if his family treat him better? When Gregor was turned into a bug, he appears to still have the motive to go and provide for his family. Even though he doesn't get most of the money, and was working to pay of his parents' debt, he had great feeling for his parents, seeing the worst things they do as something done with good intentions. On the other hand, his parents' see Gregor as just a money making machine. Instead of working, which they are clearly able to since they ...

In the book,  The Sun Also Rises, we were all introduced to the character Brett. In this book, were are constantly given the idea and the "dream" of Jake and Brett being together, but tragically not being able to be together due to the accident. Throughout the book, Brett and Jake tell each other that they are in love with each other but Brett never seems to show that, but instead seems to be more attracted to the idea of being with Jake.  Throughout the book, Hemingway seems to picture Brett as a male character in modern times, someone who can't be tied down to one relationship and instead enjoys themselves with many. Surely, somebody who really enjoys the idea of being in a relationship with someone else would look past the small detail of such an accident, right? In my head, love seems to be more about the connection between people. To me, if two people truly want to be together, they simply would. On the other hand, is Brett simply trying to protect Jake? We were to...

Mrs. Dalloway is a one of a kind novel that showcases a day worth of events that seems to be connected by the emotions and builds on character's friendships and emotions. In this novel, Mrs. Dalloway acts almost like player in a video game, guiding us through her life decision, in the present and in the past. In this novel, two character collide that appear to be completely different: A character that appears to be reason and a character that seems to lost a piece of himself in the past. The book follows Dalloway through out the book as she prepare for her party, but also showcased a very different story with Septimus. One of the most interesting comparison is between the happy, normal, emotional, and "pure" Dalloway and the emotionless and constantly rejected Septimus. Between the characters, they don't seem to have much in common. Septimus is the heroic character that left home to follow his dreams; something that would easily be produced in the movie. However, ov...