Connections Across the Literature: Death, Near Dying, Death is a Universal Human Experience
Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum (The Narrator's Death Sentence)
Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Beli's Near Death in the Fields, Oscar's Death Being Beat Up)
Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun - (Mr. Walter's Death)
Death is an inevitable, inescapable, universal experience that happens to every human being.
Connections Across the Literature: Fear
Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum (Narrator's Fear of Death)
Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Beli's and Oscar's Fear of Death)
Hurston - Sweat (Fear of Snake)
Hughes - Let America Be America Again (Fear of Country Failing)
Fear is apart of the universal human experience that can especially be subjective. Though it is bad to live in fear, sometimes, things just haunt us because that's the way the human brain works.
Connections Across the Literature: Submission/Oppression of Women
Body 1 Oscar Wao
"Of course everyone thought I was the worst daughter ever" (59)
"The next day my mother threw the wig at me. You're going to wear this. You're going to wear it every day. And if I see you without it on I'm going to kill you!" (59)
"If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. You don't know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around - especially the ones that are never around. What it's like to be the perfect Dominican daughter, which is just a nice way of saying a perfect Dominican slave." (58)
Beating of Women, Machoism
Body 2 A Raisin in the Sun - Submission of Beneatha in the Opening Scene?
Body 3 Sweat - Submission of the Wife
Body 4 My own life
Gender discrimination is subjective to the situation. I can probably relate the most to this one.
Connections Across the Literature: Coming of Age
The Young King in Oscar Wilde's story comes of age when he realizes material wealth is not the ultimate end. My personal connection to this is that I chose to major in a social science rather than biology because happiness is a byproduct of a meaningful life. Money is not the key to happiness, as there are many rich people who are depressed, left wondering who is their real friends or not because all they have is money.
Oscar Wao comes of age by the end of the story because he is finally able to get women?
In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter comes of age when he resists the white man's racism.
Personal connection: Like these stories, I too had several coming of age experiences, but probably the most was when I came to college.
Paying for own car insurance, phone bill, tuition, books
Learning about the humanities, philosophy, etc.
Actually learning rather than memorizing facts like in high school
Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum (The Narrator's Death Sentence)
Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Beli's Near Death in the Fields, Oscar's Death Being Beat Up)
Dickinson - "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun - (Mr. Walter's Death)
Death is an inevitable, inescapable, universal experience that happens to every human being.
Connections Across the Literature: Fear
Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum (Narrator's Fear of Death)
Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Beli's and Oscar's Fear of Death)
Hurston - Sweat (Fear of Snake)
Hughes - Let America Be America Again (Fear of Country Failing)
Fear is apart of the universal human experience that can especially be subjective. Though it is bad to live in fear, sometimes, things just haunt us because that's the way the human brain works.
Connections Across the Literature: Submission/Oppression of Women
Body 1 Oscar Wao
"Of course everyone thought I was the worst daughter ever" (59)
"The next day my mother threw the wig at me. You're going to wear this. You're going to wear it every day. And if I see you without it on I'm going to kill you!" (59)
"If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge. You don't know the hold our mothers have on us, even the ones that are never around - especially the ones that are never around. What it's like to be the perfect Dominican daughter, which is just a nice way of saying a perfect Dominican slave." (58)
Beating of Women, Machoism
Body 2 A Raisin in the Sun - Submission of Beneatha in the Opening Scene?
Body 3 Sweat - Submission of the Wife
Body 4 My own life
Gender discrimination is subjective to the situation. I can probably relate the most to this one.
Connections Across the Literature: Coming of Age
The Young King in Oscar Wilde's story comes of age when he realizes material wealth is not the ultimate end. My personal connection to this is that I chose to major in a social science rather than biology because happiness is a byproduct of a meaningful life. Money is not the key to happiness, as there are many rich people who are depressed, left wondering who is their real friends or not because all they have is money.
Oscar Wao comes of age by the end of the story because he is finally able to get women?
In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter comes of age when he resists the white man's racism.
Personal connection: Like these stories, I too had several coming of age experiences, but probably the most was when I came to college.
Paying for own car insurance, phone bill, tuition, books
Learning about the humanities, philosophy, etc.
Actually learning rather than memorizing facts like in high school
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