Author: Amalia Reyes, Union High School📍Vancouver, Washington In this passage from the novel Moon Tiger, the author uses violent diction when describing the children to show the childrens’ viciousness towards each other and varying perspectives, which is caused by the sense of rivalry they feel between themselves, and how the mother’s lack of involvement in their relationship and in each of th lives of the … Continue reading Analysis of “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Lively

Author: Rohan Ahuja, West Union High School📍West Union, OH Authors choose the names of their literary characters with great care. In “When the Emperor was Divine” author Julie Otsuka depicts the physical and psychological struggles a Japanese family in the 1940s is forced to endure as a result of being forcibly displaced to a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese Americans. Her choice to … Continue reading A Look at the Naming in Julie Otsuka’s “When The Emperor was Divine”

Author: Henry Tan, Heritage High School📍Vancouver, Washington In “London’s Summer Morning” by author Mary Robinson structures the poem, through the use of enjambment and iambic pentameter to create a smooth, flowing, and continuous poem to characterize this poem as a source of inspiration for herself. The structure of this poem creates a sense of continuity and allows it to be read with a certain flow … Continue reading How “London’s Summer Morning” by Mary Robinson is Characterized as a Source of Inspiration for the Author.

Author: Sophia Tan, Heritage High School📍Vancouver, Washington In Klara and the Sun, a book written during the growing popularity and advancement of AI, Kazuo Ishiguro uses characterization and juxtaposition of this characterization of the different people in the book to show that we should also be wary of introducing it into our society. Firstly, Ishiguro characterizes the richer characters and the poorer characters in this … Continue reading How Kazuo Ishiguro Warns Us of AI in “Klara and the Sun”

Author: Bryan Waltzer, Plano High School📍Plano, TX Polytheism, the belief in worship of more than one god was prevalent throughout the West and Middle East, but coupled with people’s economic hardship and hope for a better life a significant shift in religious ideas was bound to happen. Monotheism, the belief in a single supreme deity, served as a foundational principle for many of the region’s … Continue reading Polytheism