Author: rachellauren1

Introduction I have always gone through phases of enjoying reading and not enjoying it. When I was in middle school I loved to read. At that time, I was reading for fun. I would read in my free time and actually have fun with it. The stories I read were for the plot and such. … Continue reading Rachel’s Annotated Bibliography

I found Virginia Woolfe’s novel To The Lighthouse to be quite a difficult read compared to other books we have chosen to dissect. This novel was much more of a challenge based on the way you read it. The main thing that Woolfe seemed to focus on when writing this novel was hidden meanings. It … Continue reading Blog 2: The Inevitable

As I started reading Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, I noticed something that seemed quite familiar to me. I noticed that the character of Dorian Gray had many similarities to Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The two characters seem to be quite similar with many similar things … Continue reading Blog 3: An Exceptional Man

When I was younger I loved to read. I loved The Hunger Games series and other stories in that genre. Essentially, I have a love for dystopian fiction and science fiction novels. They always piqued my interest. Even in high school my favorite book we read was George Orwell’s 1984, which is a fabulous dystopian … Continue reading Blog 4: Challenging the Inevitable

Animal Farm by George Orwell is quite interesting when you examine the narrative as a whole. I knew from the start that the novel had to be about animals, but it is much more than just that. The main characters of the novel are the animals. The farm animals on Manor Farm are personified as … Continue reading Blog 1: How Can True Freedom Be Achieved By The Animal Farm?

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin starts the same way it ends; in the thick of a presumably unending melancholy. Within the novel, Baldwin paints an ill-fated Parisian romance between an American man named David and an Italian bartender named Giovanni. Although I’m familiar with Baldwin’s work thanks to classics such as “Sonny’s Blues”, I found … Continue reading Blog Post 1: Can You Ever Leave Giovanni’s Room?