CRITICAL: How do you understand Faulkner’s extraordinary statement in his Nobel Prize speech “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself … alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat” ? From my own understanding, Faulkner and the context in which he wrote,…
Category: 204 – Critical Reviews
Hang them,
Does Alice Walker believe that the “Everyday Use” of the old quilts is protecting or destroying tradition? Remember from the Introduction that we are told that Alice Walker resembles each of the characters in her narrative. The short story written by Alice Walker, reveals 3 characters who struggle with their cultural identity as Native Americans….
Transcending into Nature
Chose a phrase or a sentence from Emerson’s essay “Nature” that really struck you as being accurate to your own experience of nature. Write a paragraph that captures an experience of nature of your own that supports what you understand to be Emerson’s vision of nature. The natural world and its revelatory characteristics, enticed the…
Caitlin McCartney 