Weird fiction

different for a haunting to be friendly like the ghost girl was. As she goes to school in Victoria Wilde’s art class there is a boy named Nolan who is Sunshine’s first friend in Ridgemont. He believes Sunshine when she tells him about the ghost and the weird vibe she gets being in the house. Nolan digs through his grandfathers papers to see if there is anything on ghosts and hauntings in the area. He stumbles upon a paper on a college professor who did research on ghosts. Nolan takes sunshine to…

For my summer reading assignment, I chose the book “Cloud and Wallfish” by Anne Nesbet. I chose this book because I prefer fiction over nonfiction and I’ve enjoyed historical fiction in the past. My thoughts on this book changed rapidly once I read the book jacket. The summary Baxter provided in the PDF compared to the summary on the book jacket were very different. Now that I have read the book, I have some thoughts. Firstly, I think that if Baxter had provided a different summary I would have…

In Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been, the understanding or initial misunderstanding of characters, are pivotal to the reader’s roller coaster experience of the plot. The story revolves around the character of Connie, a fairly typical 15-year-old teenage girl, who comes to be confronted with a dangerous situation. This story and the character of Connie were particularly interesting and engrossing to me. As Oates illustrates Connie’s character and her motivations, I was…

The novel ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green is a romantic drama following two cancer patients and their journey together. Augustus and Hazel would be seen as complete opposites when it comes to their outlook on life but somehow they were drawn together. The story connects with the reader emotionally as they face challenges that arise due to cancer to make Hazel’s dream come true. Throughout the novel, we witness Gus’ (Augustus) heartfelt attempts to make Hazel’s dream come true despite his…

In Brooke Gladstone’s graphic novel entitled “The Influencing Machine”, journalistic media is evaluated throughout its evolution. Due to the complexity of the subject, many different qualities of the media are explored throughout the novel; however, four main, controversial themes are always evident, and those four are the purpose, necessity, honesty, and reliability of journalistic media. After reading Gladstone’s informative graphic novel, enough information can be acquired in order to form…

Be Who You Are The message of this book is to remind everyone that it does not matter who you are, you should just be yourself. I like the fact that throughout the story in big bold letters it repeats, “Just be who you are.” I really enjoyed the illustrations because the colors on the pages were vibrant and really caught my attention. Parr did an excellent job of using an array of attributes to compare. He talked about personality, physical characteristics, communication and attitudes towards…

Alice Walker, the American novelist, said, “The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.” ¬¬In her quote, Walker discusses how people constantly make choices, and these choices are related to how they live. Sometimes people make small choices, but throughout history, there have been times when individuals had to make tough choices. For example, when the Supreme Court had to decide in Marbury v. Madison, and Plessy v. Ferguson. While the justices had to make…

Book Review: Too Hot To Handle by: Jonathan Zimmerman Zimmerman, Jonathan. Too Hot to Handle. Princeton University Pres, 2016. Zimmerman’s “Too Hot to Handle” unpacks the history of sexual education around the world. He uncovers the true birth of the subject and how and why it was introduced in the school curriculum. Of course, being that the topic is highly controversial, sexual education was not unanimously accepted among all cultures and schools. As countries became more culturally diverse,…

When one is separated from those they are supposed to be closest with, they will often look to fill that emotional gap with some form of self expression of comfort. As in Cisneros’ personal essay “Ghosts and Voices: Writing from Obsession”, the distance I lived from my family, both literally and metaphorically, helped to shape myself and my voice. Since both my parents originally hailed from Montreal, the majority of my family remains there to this day. While I am quite close with everyone,…

To be confronted with challenging predicaments is an inevitable part of the human experience. Although each person must make their own individual “journey” through life’s course, there remain universal principles that unite all living beings. William Stafford’s poem “Traveling Through the Dark” reveals that when one is given the space to reflect upon these simultaneously simple yet compelling principles, only then can one see the chain of events that can occur as a result of a single action. It…