Marriage in The Hungry Tide
As I’ve been reading further into The Hungry Tide, I’ve started to notice a recurring theme surrounding marriage. All three marriages we have seen so far in the narrative (Piya’s parents, Fokir and Moyna, and Nilima and Nirmal) have been
Michelle’s Reading Questions for October 11th
Intimacy appears to be a recurring theme throughout Franny Choi’s poems in Soft Science. For example, in her poem, “Solitude,” the speaker tells of a time she jumped into the Narragansett Bay for her birthday, and near the end of
The Mother’s Death
Today’s discussion on the death of Ichiro’s mother was extremely interesting and brought up points about the symbolism of dying in a bathtub that I hadn’t thought about while reading through No-No Boy. Personally, I saw her death as a
New SNL Cast Members
Hi, guys! I wanted to share these articles I have come across concerning the new cast members of SNL, most notably Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis. Bowen Yang, who is Chinese-American and previously wrote for SNL in 2018, was recently
More Thoughts on Donald Duk — Identity and Frustration
While reading and discussing Donald Duk, I began to think about Donald’s resentment towards his parents and others in the novel for failing to Americanize themselves in the way that Donald believes they should. This frustration seemed familiar to me