Author Archives: 23prauseg

It rushes past me through the dust This and that, a kid on her gust. One reach to her heart and over. He is turning his spinning wheel. It glances in the city’s dust At teens and tanners, leaves them … Continue reading →

Women have for a long time occupied a strange place not only in wartime, but in literature. Typical femininity denotes dependence on a masculine figure, or a divine female figure upon which the masculine looks as an object (emphasis on … Continue reading →

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow “ (McCarthy 286). Multiple times in the novel, … Continue reading →

The boy in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a christ-like figure, a golden-haired angel who is a last bastion of humanity and purity in the post-apocalyptic world, while the man himself is willing to use violence to protect the boy’s … Continue reading →

 I want to start this essay by talking about a moment in school that I have been experiencing a lot. While it might be a meaningless moment that is just a part of their school life to my fellow students, … Continue reading →

I want to have a pet!  Numerous moms and dads in this world have probably heard that sentence in a high, stimulating voice multiple times. Some of them get weak and buy a little dog, cat, hamster, or rabbit. I … Continue reading →

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired’” (Fitzgerald 81). One of Nick’s, the narrator of Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby’s several … Continue reading →

“The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win”. Mason Cooley You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. In … Continue reading →

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Jr. I … Continue reading →

“Go back to your seats, please. Come one. You can giggle right after this class. It is not funny anymore. I want to start with a new lesson but if you guys don’t listen……Come one. Please. Please. Just for now, … Continue reading →