powerful way. The characters within this novel are impacted negatively and positively by the words that are spoken. In the book, words help to express who the characters are by showing how they interact and respond to them. I have learned that words can be encouraging and uplifting for the characters. They can be used to learn important lessons that can help a character to better understand their life. However, on the other hand, characters in the novel are also put down and hurt by the words that
Elemeno as a Mixed-Race Identity in Senna’s Caucasia In Caucasia, Birdie and Cole are juxtaposed as a white-passing mixed person and a visibly black mixed-person, but they are drawn together by their mixed race identity and their shared world: Elemeno. They both experience pressures from blackness and whiteness to conform, and Birdie especially struggles to exist in either category. Senna uses the various aspects of Elemeno to highlight this sense of alienation felt and to examine racial identity
all right, Joan Wilder. Yea. You always were. Like a contemporary Dorothy, Romancing the Stone's Joan Wilder must travel to Columbia and survive incredible adventures to learn that she had always been a capable and valuable person. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984) is part of a series of 1980s action comedies that disrupted previous expectations for female heroines. These female protagonists manage to subvert the standard action narrative and filmic gaze, learning to rescue themselves
scattered as the years go on. In order to appease her mother and remain ‘safe’ from the feds, Birdie becomes Jesse, a fictitious identity she takes in New Hampshire. And despite the fact that she always remembered her father and sister fondly, she felt neglected by them and therefore she began to neglect part of her race. While in New Hampshire Birdie begins to fully emerge into her Jewish girl Jesse persona, and is preoccupied with impressing a popular white girl at school, and even goes as far as to
6. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copyright: 2012 Category: LGBTQ Novel/Memoir Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an incredible book. I was excited to read this after researching Benjamin Alire
Translating Cultural Subtext in Modern Korean Fiction Translation as an Act of Bridging Two Cultures Literary translation can be described in many ways. In the first place we can think of it as retelling, in that we take a Korean story and tell it in English. In retelling the story we make it public. This means we have an audience, either readers of our translation or listeners of a public reading of that translation. Public readings are an important way of disseminating a translation.
Reflection on the American Dream in the Views and Songs of Bruce Springsteen ABSTRACT: When promoting his album Wrecking Ball in Paris on 2012, Bruce Springsteen told journalists that his work had always been about judging the distance between American reality and the American Dream. This article explores one founding myth of the United States, the American Dream in some songs of Bruce Springsteen and tries to measure the gap between the dream and real life in the U.S. today. Keywords: American