Author: Hana Ahmed

After diving into a novel riddled with mystery, intrigue, and layer upon layer of narrative, I had really high hopes for our next reading assignment. The extent of my experience with Hemingway prior to this class was that I’ve visited his old residence in Key West. I have never read any of his work (I […] Read more →

  Some of the strangest knowledge I’ve learned in college has been in physics. While theories and laws on things such as gravity seem intuitive and common sense, others, such as string theory or the theory of relativity, are just bizarre. It’s interesting that some modern theories of physics sound remarkably similar to ancient philosophy, […] Read more →

One of the themes of The  World’s Wife is showing how famous men (from myth, novels and history) are either not as great as they were made out to be or how they affected the supposed women in their lives. When I went to the public reading by Carol Ann Duffy, she explained that her […] Read more →

One of the natural tendencies when editing is to take away. Minimalizing and streamlining is key in the process of re-working rough drafts. However, in this process its possible to actually lose some meaning due to cutting back. In my readings of the rough drafts of Sanctuary by Carol Ann Duffy from Selling Manhattan, I […] Read more →

  In our last class on Thursday we all discussed our uneasiness with analyzing poetry. One thing that Dr. Croxall mentioned was that when looking at poetry, an easy and overlooked method is to look at a collection of poems in relation to each other. A book of poetry gives a totally different context than […] Read more →

I am a science major. Analyzing poetry is seriously not my forte what-so-ever. So you can imagine my elation when I realized we were going to be assigned poetry for the greater part of the semester. However, life is about doing things you do not want to do or doing things you are not particularly […] Read more →

When I first began reading this novel, I felt sympathy for Peter and his unrequited love for Clarissa. However, the last section of the book just made me flat out irritated with him. Peter seems to constantly deny that he is in love with Clarissa and create imaginary scenarios of her regretting turning him down. In […] Read more →

In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, we are introduced to many characters and given very interesting, brief glimpses into their thoughts. This stream of conscious style is unique in that it gives a very honest and candid vantage point of the characters from the story. One of the facets of the novel that grabbed me was […] Read more →

Opposites attract, and then slowly pull apart. This is a saying that is depicted in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy”. In this story, we are introduced to Miranda, a young American woman who becomes involved with a married Indian man named Dev. One aspect that I felt jumped out to me was the fact that much of […] Read more →