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“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.”
Le Guin uses her short story to explore the topics of ethics of societal happiness and the nature of morals by creating a society around the meaning that happiness isn’t worth the suffering of another. For example, Le Guin describes the environment and setting—Omelas is a utopia of joy and celebration, filled with “a clamor of bells” and people living in harmonious contentment. This paradise, however, is built upon the misery of a single child locked away in a dark, filthy room. The stark disparity between the vibrant life of Omelas and the desolate existence of the child exposes the moral foundation of the city’s happiness: an accepted injustice. The…
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Week 6’s Blog Post
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Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Toni’s use of ambiguity regarding the race around Twyla and Roberta, allows us to explore themes like identity, memory, and complexities of race. For example, when they are first introduced in the orphanage, the way they describe each other and why they would end up in the orphanage–it is left to our own minds what their background is, which is further enhanced when later in the story, the two girls have grown and are now in two different social classes. It ties into identity, and the complexity of race, as we in our minds are using our own interpretations of their background based on what we already know, and are…
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin uses jazz to explore themes of identity, community, and the power of artistic expression. Such a scene that involves all of these topics is when the narrator enters the jazz club and watches his brother play among the stage. “Sonny’s fingers filled the air with life, his life..” it allows us to understand music is Sonny’s way of communicating his inner feelings–the struggles, the isolation–his identity is unraveled as he plays music. It also ties into artistic expression; Sonny’s ways of communicating is through the art of music. Another example is when Baldwin writes, “The room was filled with the sound,” and the audience listening to Sonny becomes…
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Blog Post 6
Ariel and Caliban are both central points of servitude and freedom as they both hold different reasons of what it means. Both their views are vastly different; Ariel believes serving Prospero will allow him his freedom, ‘gladly’ preforming his tasks. His servitude is redemption and freedom. However, Caliban himself believes power will allow his freedom, wishing to overthrow Prospero in his reign and control the island himself. Caliban and Ariels contrasting views allow us to understand just how different their mindset’ are when it comes to their freedom.
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Blog Post #3
Whitman makes an excellent connection between the individual and sea of people he encounters everyday. For starters, he explains how they’re all viewing the same thing on their daily commute; the sun and birds that are starting to appear. He adds on that no matter the time and place, there will always be someone else walking alongside those who commute, regardless if they pay attention or not. Furthermore, during the midst of his poem, everyone on that boat sees the same thing he does–a connection between everyone although most don’t pay attention.
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Blog Post #1
Both poems were wonderful in their own right. Edgar’s poem about grief, sadness, and love was quite pretty in my eyes, as I adore the fall and its characteristics. In his poem, it shows how in everything he sees, it fuels his sadness or makes him remember his lost person. However in my mind, I realized we think differently. Whenever a loss like this occurs, I always try to paint them in the best way possible; the autumn leaves being my sister’s favorite season, or even the desolate winter air is my family’s favorite season since they get to stay inside haha. It also ties into Emily’s poem, albeit different…
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Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Aracely Brito, and I’m currently a Psychology student. I’m not too sure yet what I wish to do as a profession, but I do hope to be working with the law as well. I love to eat, going out and exploring, learning new things, and gaming. I’m very excited to take this class as English and it’s past is very interesting to me, super happy to be here with all of you!
