Author Archives: savitri

My Essay will be on a T.V series called The Walking Dead, in which my Gothic theme will be the undead or zombies. It tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie … Continue reading →

We get a glimpse of the middle class through Claudia and her family, who maintain a sense of dignity and pride. In the first chapter, she tells us, “Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway … Continue reading →

Claudia narrates parts of The Bluest Eye, sometimes from a child’s perspective and sometimes from the perspective of an adult looking back. She suffers from racist beauty standards and material insecurity, but she has a loving and stable family which … Continue reading →

“Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made.” (pg.51) It would have been so easy for Dorothy to give up hope and … Continue reading →

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”. McIntosh is explaining what most of us believe when we hear the word “Racism”, that it is an act of … Continue reading →

“The Road” represent in this novel Sal’s journey to self-discovery. He advances from every experience that he encounters and defines a new piece of himself each time. As Sal stated “I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless … Continue reading →

I believe that Dean Moriarty is the center and motivation of this novel.  Sal states that he likes Dean because of his exuberance, eagerness, uneducated intelligence, and what he sees as his Western spirit, and also feels like Dean is … Continue reading →

The story opens with David standing at the window of his house in the south of France.  He drinks and watches night fall, preparing himself for the worst.  He began having flashbacks of all the events that took placed in … Continue reading →

Audre Lorde spoke excellently about “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” she addressed many issues that were occurring in 1980 and unfortunately all of those issues are still present. Racism is among every culture and is still one of the leading … Continue reading →