Visual Representation of the Fantastic
Posted in dystopia, Fantastic, Reality, time on Apr 16th, 2020
Category Archive for 'Reality'
The World of the Fantastic (my visual interpretation)
Posted in Fantastic, Reality, Transformations on Apr 11th, 2020
Just a dad in is 40’s trying his best
Posted in coronavirus, Point of View, Reality on Apr 10th, 2020
Through “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” Saunders examines the American middle class’s anxieties about social mobility and status. His story spotlights an all too real social group that lives in fear of falling victim to an ever-widening wealth gap. The rereader has to consider our own biases and prejudices through carefully constructed narrative empathy and satiric […]
Language and Irony in “The Semplica Girl Diaries”
Posted in Desperation, Reality, Social Fears on Apr 7th, 2020
In “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” the story’s narrator is keeping a diary, which becomes the text of the story. One of the first things noticed in the story is that the dad, who is the diary’s author, does not always write in complete sentences. “Am getting off track, due to tired, due to those fighting […]
Because of the fantastic talent of its protagonist, Harlan Crane, and the mysteriousness of his character, Millhauser’s “Precursor of the Cinema” seems like fiction. On the contrary, there are various instances throughout the tale that demand it be taken as truth. The beginning of the short story reads like a research paper or a historical […]