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LITERATURE: The BW Life of Oscar Wao – Voice and Character
Junot Diaz has a nice sense of his characters. With Oscar, we feel his struggle between his growing natural interest in girls compounded by peer pressure and his need to hold onto the part of himself that he knows is … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The BW Life of Oscar Wao – Changing Perspective
While Oscar was the protagonist in the third-person pov of the first chapter, and we followed him from adolescence through his going away to college, Diaz switches us to first person pov of Oscar's sister Lola without warning in the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: More on Neruda’s Ode to The Past
Well that was an astute review of the piece below: Wow. Let's see if I can be a bit more specific. The language (at least in translation) is simple and direct. Neruda uses a metaphor for time as two rivers, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Pablo Neruda: Ode to the Past
I am a firm believer that besides the different genres and classic masters, every would-be writer should keep as well a book of poetry beside the couch. For learning imagery, brevity, rhythm, there is nothing that matches the lines of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Opening Thoughts
I've been busily writing on Hypercompendia so I haven't been as caught up as usual here on the literature postings but I have starting reading this novel by Junot Diaz and find it to be rather quick, easy reading despite … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Alice Munro’s Prue
Let's put aside the fact that I can relate to this story of love and infidelity far too easily. Munro is superb at getting inside the emotion of relationships by viewing them through a character that may or may not … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Munro’s Bardon Bus
Another close writing from Munro–by close, I'm using the "close reading" application, the same attention to diction and use of writing tools such as dialogue and character reflection to give information that a lesser writer might merely present as backstory. … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alice Munro’s Accident – The Seeds of Hypertext
This story, in the anthology "The Moons of Jupiter," is a peek into a woman's affair with a married man. It follows a short time span when Ted's only son Bobby is killed in a snow sled accident, while rounding … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Moons of Jupiter – The Turkey Season
A young girl, the first person narrator, goes to work at a turkey slaughter house where she hopes to overcome doubts about her capabilities. Munro then uses the character to discover the facts and faults of the workers around her … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Finale
Nice little twist at the end, something that satisfies a writer's soul. Martel brings up the notion of story, and what is fiction and what is truth as Pi retells his story briefly to a group who interviews him when … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Excitement! Drama!
And, spoilers; though I'm sure no one reads my reviews without realizing that I care not a whit for such things, particularly since I'm discussing rather than reviewing, and more in a non-usual manner. But this: A man-eating island! Continue reading
LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Title
Too cute: I explored the island. I tried to walk around it but gave up. I estimate that it was about six or seven miles in diameter, which means a circumference of about twenty miles. (p. 340) Okay, pi. Continue reading
LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Moral Questions
It is quite likely one of the least controversial of ethical questions: cannibalism. I say least controversial because most people agree that it certainly shouldn't be an accepted practice, and only if forced by threatened survival–and then, only if the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Reflection
This is nice: At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. (p. 295) Continue reading
LITERATURE: Life of Pi – Subtlety in Progression
Interesting pattern of both passage of time and changes in character: Subsequently I went for smaller sharks, pups really, and I killed them myself. I found that stabbing them through the eyes with the knife was a faster, less tiresome … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology