Baldwin uses jazz music to express deep connections, especially in Sonny’s case. For Sonny, jazz serves as a refuge from the hard times of his life. Since he was young, he used jazz as an escape, a way to try to find himself, and or even as an act of rebellion, specially after his mother’s death, Sonny spent long hours at the piano, playing in the house but not truly living there. By this time, he was already using drugs, and he told to his brother that he was trying to escape from drugs at that time, when he wanted to leave Harlem. This is why I believe he also…

Toni Morrison’s absence of explicit racial markers made me dig into possible clues about Roberta and Twyla’s race, but it was so interesting and amazing to me because I would read and assume something, and later on, I would think something different, and I believe that was the entire point, to prove that we have pre-conceived and stereotypes ideas about how certain races should act, look, think, etc. One of the examples is Twyla said her mother would not like Roberta and her mother, that she would think they are smelly people. To me this sounded like a white racist mother who wouldn’t like her daughter to be roommate with…

Ariel and Caliban are both hoping for freedom that is their truly desire. Ariel is obedient and follows it because his position is different he is hoping actign like this obedient and following Prospero’s orders and desires he can find freedom. He tries or hope to earn freedom by bonding and serving with the expectation of freedom through this act. Caliban instead serves with anger and rebellion he desires freedom and he expresses to Prospero. He is treated poorly, not as a human and more as if he was an animal. His desires of freedom are strong as the recentment and anger he feels against Prospero

I have been thinking of this poem by Emily Dickinson: ” The Soul Selects Her Own Society” First, do we have a soul? And if we do, is it a she? or a he? or it depends on the person? Do animals have a soul? These are very existential questions. I want to believe we do, we do have a soul because I like to think there is something magical about us, I also want to consider our soul selecting our own society as Dickison says,  meaning that the people close to us were selected for a magical purpose.  I want to believe that humans have something special, and there…