Summary Of Confluences By Jennifer Sinor

The Essence
Provide a unifying title for these readings collectively, followed by few statements that support the message, or argument, you see emerge from readings as a whole.
“The essence.” All of the readings ask the readers to look deeper inside to the essence of life or the deeper of things.
Whom & What did you read?
“Confluences” by Jennifer Sinor, it was first published in the American Scholar (2008), the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The story took place Alatna River. The story talks about The death of Sinor’s beloved uncle, and the beginning of a new life; “Once More to The Lake” by E.B. White, it was first published in White’s column for Harper’s Magazine (October 1941). The Story took place in Maine. It talks about a man that understands how the past and the present come together, he realized that the time never stops and it brings so many changes. “Sowers and Reapers” by Jamaica Kincaid, it was first published in The New Yorker Magazine (January 22, 2001), a magazine of literature and the arts. In this essay, the author talks about author admiration of gardens and the stories behind them.

What were some of the Group Members’ first or Gut Reactions to the Works as

In “Once More to the Lake” emerged the Ideological content when the author says that his son does things in the same way he did when he went to the lake. In “Confluences” emerged the ideological content as well; it is about the last moments of the author’s uncle with her father. In addition, all of these essays present some Philosophical content. All of them requires a deep understanding of things ( Sowers and reapers) and life (confluences and Once More to the Lake). All of these essays ask for a search of the essence, not just the obvious but the abstract