Author Archives: Jenny Phan

I am going to write my essay about Frankenstien by Mary Shelly. Victor, the main character found a way to bring a dead corpse back to life using electrical currents. He created a monster, Frankenstien who is physically crippled and … Continue reading →

Pecola Breedlove is a typical girl who wants to look pretty like Mary Jane and Shirley Temple. However, everyone in the novel calls her ugly and insults her because of her skin color. Therefore, Pecola wants to have blonde hair, … Continue reading →

What is beauty? White skin, blue eyes, thin boy, and blonde hair.  Pecola is an African-American girl (ages 10-13) and  she is from a lower class family. Pecola hates herself for being  black and she believes that having white skin … Continue reading →

“Age, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” by Audre Lorde remind me of this quote “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 … Continue reading →

The main character, Esperanza comes from a lower-class Hispanic family. She is bothered by what people say to her because of her family’s socioeconomic status, “I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could … Continue reading →

“And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell”, state Sal. According to this quote, “the road” represents freedom and experience. For Sal, it … Continue reading →

The book On the Road, Dean Moriraty has carried out a good entrance in the beginning of the book. I feel, Dean is the center of this novel because the author, Jack Kerouac describes him more than the main character, … Continue reading →

First, Jacques wants David to be honest to himself. He attempts to convince David to open his heart and eyes to the truth about being gay. Also, he wants David to understand what is happiness? It is a knowing of … Continue reading →

      “The power and the promise and the mystery of that body made me suddenly afraid. The body suddenly seemed the black opening of a cavern in which I would be tortured till madness came, in which I … Continue reading →