Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel published in 1968 by Philip K. Dick. It’s the story of a man named Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who lives in a dystopian San Francisco after most of the human population has relocated themselves to Mars due to the extensive damages to Earth […]
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Invisible Lives Matter: Ralph Ellison and the BLM Movement
The prologue of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man jarred me. It is written retrospectively, after the main action of the book has already occurred, so the reader is instantly thrown into the mindset of a man who they won’t meet again until near the end of the novel. The narrator is extremely angry at the world, […]
When Gio Met David: A Swapped POV Experiment
David pursed his lips and his cheeks pinked when I told him I didn’t drink while working. I wasn’t sorry for it – I knew what had come of drinking while serving in the past– but I was sorry for the fact that he had to pay for the drink himself. The wrinkled men were […]
Representing The Mentality of the Great Depression in As I Lay Dying
Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, is markedly one of the first novels to introduce stream of consciousness narration to the public. Faulkner wrote the entirety of the novel over the course of six weeks, from midnight until 4am, during his break at the power plant where he was working. It is interesting […]
Passing as Disguise: The Usage of the N-Word by John Bellow
Nella Larsen’s Passing gets its title from the practice of passing, which is defined by an article from Time as “identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another.” In the novel, Clare Kendry has “passed” by disguising her African American heritage, which is successful due to her light skin color. […]