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Aims of the discussion Examine the method in which structure and style contribute to the reading’s analysis of Bigger’s psyche Examine the complex relationships between Bigger (a poverty-stricken black man), the private investigator (the ideal American white male), and the … Continue reading →

Kristy Kim English 012: Essay #1 Outline Professor Dimock 16 February 2016   An Unconventional Tragic Hero?  A Character Study of Newland Archer   What is a tragic hero? Classical definition: a person of noble birth with heroic or potential … Continue reading →

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We began our class on Death Comes for the Archbishop by focusing on the novel’s historically suspect account of the American Southwest as the site of idyllic, even Edenic, encounters between global authority and local populations.  We turned to the … Continue reading →

Biography Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Born in London to parents from West Bengal, Lahiri’s family moved to the US when she was just two years old. After spending … Continue reading →

Biography Dave Eggers is an American author, journalist, and editor who is also known for his work in philanthropy. Born in 1970, Eggers was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied … Continue reading →

SANDBURG’S CROWDS Intro: Sandburg is fascinated by crowds/masses of people, and they way they make up a city. Thesis: Sandburg uses each crowd he describes in order to emphasize a different facet of the Chicago community.   By ethnicity Fish … Continue reading →

Biography Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to a Catholic French-Canadian family. French was his first language, and his given name was Jean-Louis. He attended Lowell High School, and then … Continue reading →