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“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”  After reading The Poisonwood Bible I am astonished by how much the book related to my own life. I think cultural awareness is so important especially as our world isContinue reading “Final Reflection”

New historicism is a lens at which the more you study the text the more you learn about the history, and the more you study the history the more you understand the text. Through reading the Poisonwood Bible there were incidents where i wish I better understood the political history behind he events occurring inContinue reading “Critical Lens/Literary Theory Connection”

After Apple-Picking BY ROBERT FROST My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn’t pick upon some bough.But I am done with apple-picking now.Essence of winter sleep is on the night,The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.IContinue reading “Poetry Analysis”

“Then I stared for a while at a traffic light, which was suspended elaborately on wires above the intersection. I couldn’t look at the cars themselves. Mybrain was roaring from all the color and orchestrated metal movement. From the open building behind me came a blast of neutral-smelling air and a highhum of fluorescent lights.Continue reading “Passage Analysis”

Symbolism is prevalent through each and every life and the way we utilize symbols often has greater impacts than we realize. Whether it be the cross that represents Jesus Christ or the sign that tells you which bathroom to walk into, we are constantly dependent on symbols. Kingsolver utilizes symbols quite often in The PoisonwoodContinue reading “Symbols/Motifs”

My name is Jeffery and I am a senior in high school. This blog is going to offer some close and personal insight into my mind on some difficult discussions. The book we are going to delve into is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. This book talks about the cultural ignorance of western civilizationContinue reading “Get to Know Me”