The End of Solitude - Allaura L.

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Reading Response to "To Be of Use" - Kelli Horvath

The Creature & Lennie

After reading the creature's narrative, he himself reminded me of Lennie from Of Mice and Men. The two characters are very similar based on their naiveness and deformities and how these character flaws limit their social interactions and acceptance among other human beings. Each character displays humanity's fear of the unknown and abnormal and that this fear is so strong that humans will try to eliminate it at any cost.

-Hillary D.

Alice Collage Response

This collage is my response to the book Alice in Wonderland. I put the red roses in the top right corner of my collage to show how they were an essential part of that scene in the story. The three trees are symbolic of the three gardeners because they were trying to paint the white roses red before the queen of hearts noticed because they did not want to be “off with their heads”. In addition, the playing card and the queen show my interpretation (how I imagined) the queen made her entrance.
- monika a

The End Of Solitude Response

In the article the "The End of Solitude" the author portrays the fact that people feel the need to be recognized and connected with others. Therefore we live in a society were social networks dominate our lives and increase as people’s desire to be noticed also increase.

- monika a

"The End of Solitude" Response-Hillary Dietzel

In "The End of Solitude," Deresiewicz emphasizes the importance of solitude in one's success. He stresses how solitude leads to deep introspection, and is the ony way to truly form your own ideas and personality. "But no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific or moral, can arise without solitude." It is true that solitude is important, but one cannot truly experience the values and joys of life without creating personal relationships and connections. For instance, when I think about important or amazing times in my life, there has always been someone there with me, or someone who has shared the same life changing day. To me, life is not only about accomplishments that can only be made through solitude, but moments, and the ones we share with our friends and family. Greatness can be achieved through solitude, but one cannot feel truly fulfilled without shared human experiences.

Short Story for Literary Periods - Allaura Levi

Once upon a time there was a girl named Elizabeth, she liked romance and was very dramatic. It was almost like a paradox. For john reason and logic were not supernatural, unlike shelly who went to church all of the time. Jane was like Elizabeth and used her imagination a lot and was mellodramatic like Charles. Leiws and Victoria were very conservitive. However, Henry was a tree huger and liked nature. Oscar like wild art, while J.S. also enjoyed the beauty of nature like Henry. William was skeptical of Langston's revolution and T.S's war. James and WOlf were just rebellious and didn't care about anything. Beckett was a crazy nonsensical hermit where as magic was a thoughtful thing. Morrison was also a chaotic person who was in a psycward where he listened to jazz. This story is def. not traditional.