In the last episode of our podcast, we discuss Bronte’s hidden themes in “Wuthering Heights”, along with her personal intent and influence on the story. Is there such a thing as too close in the affairs of love? The characters’ relationships are incredibly claustrophobic, and obsession turns to cruel acts of revenge and insatiable attempts to revive the past (to literally digging up graves!). Thanks for listening!

References:

Linton’s death: Ch. 30

Quote #1: page 121

Quote #2: page 363

Heathcliff’s death: Ch. 34

Claustrophobia/Obsession: Ch. 15, 19, 34

TheVision

Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

James Kry, Sukainah Hasan, Nasir Duppins, & Tristan Mayberry

Podcast Summary:

In this podcast, from finishing the book we discussed why we think the author wrote the book this way. We think Toni Morrison wrote the book to show the power of each character’s story. Most characters were judged because of the way they looked. This caused them to become the character they are in the book. We even see with the characters’ actions everything comes with a price. Sometimes people have to sacrifice in order to satisfy others or themselves. Toni Morrison mainly wrote this book to show the damage that racism has put upon these characters.

Link to Podcast:

https://youtu.be/lVQ2pv-WX80

Margie Castejon, Tristan Dini, Annie Chen, Vincent Cammisa, and Caleb McCreary

In our third episode, we discuss the ending to Grendel: our reactions to it’s themes and characters, and how Grendel engages with the original text it’s based on. We also speculate on John Gardner’s intent for making a prequel for ‘Beowulf’ in the first place.

Listen to our episode here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIGYbNqTKWevwUrzTXlAmrNcCjvUIZUK/view?usp=sharing

Text Evidence:

“Besides, who would want to marry her? The girl knows nothing about anything…” p.163

“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spend mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly 30 years.” p.198

This podcast was the last podcast of the three episode Long Road Podcast. In this episode we discussed many things. First and foremost we talked about the author’s intent with the writing style that he used. We also talked about different motives/reasons that the author had to write a book like this. We also talked about themes that popped up in the book and what they meant to us. There was also conversation about the ending as some of us felt like it was rushed and slightly unpleasant.

Pages Referenced Pg. 209 This gives us a glimpse of that luck that Chris mentions in the podcasts. The father and the son were on the path to starvation but yet again they find resources that they desperately need in a post apocalyptic world.

Pg. 213 This page shows the father having falsely placed hope and that relates to our question about the man’s faith in God and the boy’s faith as well. We concluded from this that they have indirect faith in God. The man for sure the boy moreless.

Pg. 255 While exploring the beach area for more resources someone steals the man and boy’s cart and they later find him and the man takes it back leaving the man for dead. That was an important point because we got to see how people react to situations like this in a post apocalyptic world.

This is the link to the podcast, just as a vague (so no spoilers for people who actually want to listen to it) summary of what we talked about we covered what happened previously and then Celie’s relationships between people and how some of them grew as a character and some of them where just a good character and a good person to Celie bond with these characters and who we’d recommend those book to

Episode 2: Literary Lenses

Group Members: Chris Jacobs, Kaleb Harris, Raven Tanpranadi, Tony Nelson, Yasir Thomas

In our second episode, we explained three literary lenses used in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, so far. They are Feminist, Marxism, and New Historic lenses. We noticed there is a lack of women within the book and there isn’t much of a social class. The author doesn’t give us any hints as to why things are this way so we took it upon ourselves to point these out and find our own answers.

Book References:

• Page 195, a woman captured by three men (feminist lens)
• Page 57, the mom (mentioned in the first episode)
• Page 185, the dad about to get robbed (marxist lens)

Below the podcast is the logo and the podcast

In episode 2 we talked about all the different lens to view this book from which this book is plentiful of symbolism and talking points considering the time period it was written in, this is the link to the video

“I don’t write to God no more. I write to you”(pg 192)

“Anyhow, I say, The God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other men I know Trifiling, Forgitgul, and Lowdown,”(pg 192)

“Shug say, Us each other’s people now, and kiss me”(pg 183) (shugs a woman just context for this quote and the how we talk about her in the book)