Trenton Lee Stewart

Have you ever heard of the Smurfette principle? As discussed in a New York Times article by Katha Pollitt in 1991, the Smurfette principle is when “a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined” (Pollitt). It was named after the comic franchise The Smurfs, a story about a colony of blue characters, all notoriously male with the exception of one female, Smurfette. The Smurfs isn’t the only place we find this disparity between men and women. In the first…

The book I read was Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The book was about a boy named Pip who is an orphan living with his abusive sister and her husband Joe Gargery. One day when Pip was sitting at his parents tombstone a escaped convict pops up and takes Pip hostage and scares him into stealing him food and a metal saw to saw off his leg of iron. Than throughout the book Pip wants to become wealthy scenes he's never really had that before. But Pip realizes money isn't a key to happiness.…

Our Last Hope What if your one last hope, one final chance to see your deceased and precious wife again, was in the shape of a bird? This is the storyline of “The Raven”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most popular and argued short stories in the history of American Literature. For years people have read, learned from, and related to the events in the story. It’s detailed words and controversial ending leaves everyone with a different opinion about what really happened to the man in…

A face in the crowd was a movie put out in 1957 where a man known as Lonesome Rhodes is found in a southern jail and by a radio reporter named Marcia Jeffries. Jefferies reports from the local jail sometime to here the stories of people in the jail and see If they have any unknown talents. She was quickly impressed by lonesome’s guitar skills and his huge personality so after his four-day jail stretch she hunts him down and makes him a offer to be on her uncles radio station were he quickly…

The character of Stanley Kowalski was first introduced as archetypal southern male of the 1940’s. Once his sister-in-law arrives at his doorstep, his flaws start coming out. His dominance is tested in what begins to bring out the flaws of the patriarch in society. What is not known is what the author’s motives for him are. Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire leaves many readers with an ambivalence toward its main antagonist. There is no debate, though, that he is a just a normal…

Harper Lee introduces her as a five year old girl who loves adventure, wears pants instead of dresses, and can punch if needed. In a way she doesn’t fit in with the other Southern girls of the time, because her father had thought her to be intelligent, thoughtful…

froze” (Lee 50). She is scared of Boo, the town hermit who never leaves his house, and all the rumors that Jem had explained to her about the Radley’s. Then, later on in the story she learns something, something that she had never expected. After finally meeting Boo, Scout knows “Atticus was right,” she remembers him telling her that “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” and she knew in that moment “Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (Lee…

My poem also uses repetition of the question, “How could OJ be guilty”? This question was crafted after the villanelle style of repeating a line in the poem. The question was repeated in order to convey the misgivings that the members of the public felt during the time of the trial and to show the bias that people had towards OJ because of his celebrity status. This question also shows the lack of concern many people had for Nicole and Ron due to their main focus on OJ. At the time, it seemed…

Do you know what it's like going against when you have to do the right thing when everyone thinks it's wrong? Harper Lee best shows this in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper shows this through many characters throughout the book. As you read through the book the struggle people had to go through during the 1930’s the struggle is going against all odds trying to do the right thing. This is best shown through a few of the main characters such as Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Tom…

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 207. So far this book is about Scout and Jem growing up and learning more about their family and town. Also, the children are forced to endure insults from almost every white person in town, due to their father representing a black man, Tom Robinson, in court. In this journal I will be evaluating and Questioning. In my opinion, Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia is a good mother figure. Calpurnia…