by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
Innocence is something people want to keep, especially during or after adolescence. Holden goes through this transition because of losing his brother, Allie, and struggles to accept it. To Holden, losing Allie is a traumatic experience that affects him greatly enough...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ portrays that maturity is gained from understanding your surroundings. In the fictional county of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 19th century, there are social problems such as poverty, racism, and bad morals. As the novel...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
The film ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ revolves around thirteen-year-old, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), who returns for his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry alongside his two best friends, Hermione Granger (Emma...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
The poem ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ by Walt Whitman focuses on human beings as social creatures by stating that humans are connected through life and their interactions with one another. Whitman shows this in the poem in paragraph 3 where it is stated, “I am with you,...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
The poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by romantic poet William Wordsworth, is in the form of lyric poetry and was first published in 1807. The poem describes a memorable day that the poet had and details how recalling that day brings him joy, even when he thinks of...
