Here’s this week’s creative experiment – a 200 word paragraph about a child playing in puddles after the rain, inspired by the rich imagery of The Great Gatsby.
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Prelude by Katherine Mansfield Analysis
In this post, I respond to what I have read in quite a few academic journals (links below) and make summary notes about the context and narrator. With the background knowledge to inspire my own analyses, I’ve sprung off some thoughts about Mansfield’s literary and writing choices. Step 2: Analysing the opening You can’t go…
Read MoreThe Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood: Critical Reading
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a story overflowing with moments of intense description – be it giving words to love or pain. Before you go ahead and read my analysis, I’d strongly recommend reading the book or two things might happen: 1) I might spoil the book for you (gasp) 2) My analysis…
Read MoreNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Book Discussion/Review
It’s week 4 of the summer holidays and we’re going back to the classics everyone: here’s my review/discussion of the book Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. The synopsis as on Goodreads: The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family…
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Studying Prose: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I’ve realised that there’s an overabundance of book review blogs around, whereas not many young people do much in the way of critically commenting on literature (not exactly the most popular teenage past-time). Nevertheless, it is worth delving into a book like ‘Never Let Me Go’ – a work I will remember for how expertly…
Read MoreBook Review: The Color Purple by Alice Walker (!!!)
Wow. This. Book. (Image credit: Waterstones, goo.gl/gd6vMT) If there ever was a book that stole my heart, then it’s The Colour Purple by Alice Walker. Summary This is the story of a woman named Celie, who lives in the Deep South (these include states in the South of America, including Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama etc.) between the…
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