My purpose in reading this book was to find the answer to one of the most important questions: Why do we have to face so much suffering in our lives? Everyday we face hardship, pain, and hurt, but we never know what the true meaning of suffering. Some say that it’s just life, and the…
Coraline Annotated Bib
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. In Coraline, Gaiman tells the story of an adventurous little girl who, when ignored by her parents, seeks adventure and affection elsewhere. Beginning with a little door to nowhere, the story gets increasingly darker as Coraline receives warnings from her various neighbors that even they do not understand. And…
Why Does the Caged Bird Sing?
Why does the cage bird sing? Why does it sing? Reading this book I clearly believe Maya Angelou is the narrator of this book. Being that the book is a memoir but it is also an autobiography so it is obvious I felt that she wrote the story. But the real narrator is Margaret because…
Caged Bird: White vs. Black
Once again, we’re reading a novel that focuses strongly on the topic of race. Kindred never held back when showing us the cruelty of slavery, and it seems that I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings isn’t going to hold back on anything either. Caged Bird may take place over a century after the events…
Caged Bird: Poetry and Memory
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a new type of text for us this semester. However, like our other texts, it seems to operate within and between genres -- the only difference is the genre. At first, Caged Bird seems to just be an autobiography. Maya Angelou is presenting a first person narrative…
Deciphering “Why the Caged Bird Sings”
There are certain memories our mind oppresses so we don’t consciously hate ourselves. There are certain instances from our past we don’t necessarily like to talk about or like to admit occurred. Being human means being flawed, yet society has taught us to regret our mistakes and hate our flaws. Unique is frowned down upon,…
The Shack: Resisting our faith in the author
Even though The Shack fulfills the expectations of being a tragic, though heartwarming story, the way it goes about doing it almost makes you scratch your head and wonder why, why couldn’t the author have taken a much simpler approach in to how he told the story? Upon this blog, I will be analyzing the rhetoric…
The Shack: Behavior in a Christian cage
As we discussed in Sofia's blog, The Shack presents quite a few opportunities for divergent ways of reading. On one level, this text can be read as the grief narrative of a father who lost his daughter. On another level, The Shack can be read as a myth, rich in symbolism and figurative language. However, I am not particularly…
Cracking WM. Paul Young’s “Hidden Code”
The Shack, written by WM. Paul Young is a novel that focuses around symbolism and religion. At a first glance one can assume The Shack to be just another everyday religion novel. But the shack proves to be much more than that from just the first couple of pages. If symbolism was a genre, (who…
When faith is gone, all hope is lost
When faith is gone, all hope is lost. Reading The Shack by WM.Paul Young, it is nothing like the first three books we read. We saw that both Slade House and Coraline were mystery stories and Kindred were a story about a woman who time travels back to slavery. The shack is a story that…
Group Four 