I believe that the Trickster in this story is the mouse. It runs up the Mother’s pant leg, and she is left there screaming while the Father and Son sit there and laugh at her. In a sense, the mouse is dividing the family. The Mother leaves the house just like the […]
I do not believe that McMurphy was suffering from a mental disorder when he was first admitted to the mental hospital. Actually, he was quite clever in escaping farm work duty and jail. By going to the mental hospital, he thought he would be able to relax for awhile and then be released. […]
I believe that the conflict between McMurphy and Big Nurse does suggest a different world outside of the mental hospital. Many of the patients have a skewed view of what sexuality is due to the opinions that the Big Nurse has. Nurse Ratched wants to supress any form of sexuality in the ward. […]
One thing I have noticed in Blood Wedding is how love and marriage is portrayed differently than love and marriage in modern times. It seems that the weddings taking place in the time of Blood Wedding occurred because the social status of the bride and groom’s families were similar. To some extent this […]
The women in the House of the Spirits seem to have great lasting power to enable change. Each woman seems oppressed in their own way, but they appear to rise above it in the feminist movement. This starts with Nivea who begins to advocate for women’s sufferage. Clara on the other hand […]
In Chapter 4, Blanca and Pedro meet for the first time and immediately fall in love. Their love, however, is forbidden because of the division between social classes. Esteban’s character has the most influence throughout the story. He is represented in Clara’s journals and through Alba because he is still alive throughout […]
I believe that the author has complete authority over the material that is written. They can choose what to add, what to embellish, and what to leave out of the story. In House of the Spirits, the author is using bits and pieces of Clara’s journal and Esteban’s personal accounts to tell a […]
The circulation of the Corrido through its’ many singers and different versions indicates that literature is ever changing, at least in this context. I never really thought of literature being this way. It seems that whatever is written in a book is ‘set in stone’ and must be left untouched because it is […]
I believe that much of the Corrido dirrers between the story and the movie. Parades’ collection shows Gregorio Cortez as a man who is a blood thristy killer. However, the movie tells a different story. In the movie, Cortez is described as a family man who killed the sheriff only in response to the killing […]
Tayo embodies the struggles on the Laguna culture. He has just come back from war, and realizes that things have completely changed. He is unsure about how to get back to who he was before the war. He is struggling with who he was and what he has become.
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