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A Bottle a Day Keeps the Town Away
Christopher Britton Professor Lucas ENG 131 11/16/16 In Marlon James’s novel, John Crows Devil, Pastor Bligh faces major conflicts. Bligh’s biggest one is the fact that he is a raging alcoholic. The breaking point of this appears when he is kicked out of the bar and is picked up by widow Greenfield and she cleans … Continue reading A Bottle a Day Keeps the Town Away
The Downfall of Othello and Desdemona
In Shakespeare’s Othello, there is a lot of plotting against one another, back stabbing, and tragic events. It goes from being a very happy story for Desdemona and Othello, to extremely quickly falling apart. Susan Snyder says that there are many different reasons this happens so quickly. Things such as “racial difference, taboos, the angry … Continue reading The Downfall of Othello and Desdemona
Lincolns Tragic Death
In Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation, she informs us of the about the killings of three presidents. Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. But the one, in particular, I enjoyed reading about was the Lincoln chapter. He was probably the most well-known of the bunch so that’s probably why. She reads the two speeches on the wall of … Continue reading Lincolns Tragic Death
Lucinda’s Mountainous Conflict
In this passage of Marlon James’s, John Crow’s Devil, Lucinda finds The Apostle in the church, unconscious from the injuries he sustained in the church and takes it upon herself to take him back to safety and care for him but for her it is extremely difficult. She says “The Apostle was the heaviest man … Continue reading Lucinda’s Mountainous Conflict
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