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Black Swan Green

                                                The Clash of Two Philosophies                            In the beginning of the book, we see Julia as a primary antagonist for Jason, she is constantly making fun of him, calling him "Thing", not recognizing him as even a human being. However, we know that this is a mutual feeling with him calling her "my abortion of a sister". In a way, the way she constantly criticizes his interests and how he does things also reveals to him the truth behind the real world, obviously not everybody is going to be nice to you. Her relentlessness is what pushes him to hide a part of him that would be considered vulnerable which makes it easier for those around him to make him feel weak. However, these teachings would shift when Jason would meet Madame Crommelynck, seein...
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Fun Home

                                    What makes Bruce such an Anti-hero?                                  Made by: Emperor Zig-Zag-Zig Elliot                 While I was trying to think of what I could write for this blog on Fun Home, I remembered a particular prompt on this blog that I think could work for this as there are strong contrasts that I had with this question on whether or not Bruce was an Antihero. It's hard to like at Bruce as a hero as he does not present any characteristics that would make you think "Oh, you see he was a good guy all the time".  However, he does have the backstory that would make you think so since he was molested by a man who was much older than him when he was only a child. On top of all that, he had to deal with keeping himself in the c...
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Esther's loneliness

                                                                 Esther's Loneliness                                        The entire metaphor of the Bell Jar is of her depression. Similarly to a character like Holden Caulfield, they both feel a resentment towards the social norms, but they present in different ways, while Holden Caulfield is far more "outspoken" about his dissatisfaction with the world and feels no shame from the fact that the rest of the world is different from him. Esther on the other hand chooses to bottle her feelings, there are constant scenes throughout the book where there are things that she want's to say in her mind but she never has the guts to say it. The bell jar to me is her defense on prot...
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The Catcher in the Rye

                                                                              Catcher in the Rye: Coming-of-Age? or maybe not? We had just finished reading Catcher in the Rye last week and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with how it ended, near about the end it still felt like there was much more to this journey explore but to me the ending felt quite abrupt. I thought that the book would have ended with Holden dying or actually going to a ranch in Colorado never to be seen again as he said he would but none of that would happen and he would end up returning home after he saw his sister being mad. I feel like for this book, it did not exactly feel like a Coming-of-Age novel, because while the main character were exposed by some ideals that could cause him to change as a person su...
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