By Josselyne RamirezĀ Esperanza: to want something to happen and be true, also known as hope. Esperanza Cordero is the name of a young Latina girl in the novel, The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. In her coming-of-age journey, she longs for a home of her own where she can be herself. A space far from Mango street where she can develop her hybrid cultural identity. She is given this home by her parents, resolving the main problem,…
By Denis Harkin In everyday life we share connections with people. Whether that is a significant other, teacher, or a policeman that is directing traffic through a closed off area of your daily route. These connections might look like a kiss on the cheek, a smile and a āgood morning,ā or a simple wave of hello. It’s in these small connections that humans show patterns in their daily life, but do we easily recognize every connection people have with others?…
By Teddy Mitchell When I first read this book, I was sitting in my eighth grade class on the third floor in Mr. Fraserās class. We read it aloud as a class and characterized each relevant character in the story and wrote full descriptions up on the board for each one. Every night, we would be assigned readings and small essays, comparing and contrasting the lives of the characters and the relevance of each one to the main plot of…
By Isabela Berstein The time whenĀ I read Giovanniās Room, an extraordinary novella by the even more extraordinary James Baldwin, could have been the worst possible moment ā but, surprisingly, it might have turned out to be the best. I was living through my very first real winter ā all the previous eighteen had been a collection of only slightly chillier and less rainy summer days, as every winter is in Rio de Janeiro. I was cold all the time, I…
By Megan Hatfield Have you ever thought what it would be like to be invisible and no one could either hear or see you? What about having the ability to control your future or go back to the past, while still living in the present? āImagine if all your choices were gone. Except one. And itās the only one that truly matters.ā Well If this intrigued you, I would say that this book is definitely the perfect fit.Ā If I…