Prisha's Bizarre Takes on Lit

Bizarre Take #8: Taking a Closer “Look” at the Invisible Folks   Bizarre Take #8: Taking a Closer “Look” at the Invisible For this blog, I decided to write about a section of the comic that I found particularly interesting, and prompted me to continue exploring this concealed issue that suddenly came to light on pages 87 to 88. These pages highlighted the idea of a power dynamic and how apparent it was throughout Spiegelman’s writing. Throughout Maus, Spiegelman makes an argument centered around power, and how its slow takeover over large groups of people can cause a huge divide, specifically between the “mice” and the “cats”. One thing I noticed sweat does a good job with is analyzing the idea of visibility. Lynn Nottage is known for building her career on making invisible people visible. Sweat does an incredible job of analyzing this by shedding light on some of the factory workers whose rights are heavily violated, and who are treated very unfairly. Sweat specifically hones in o...

Bizarre Take #7 - Diving Deeper into the World of Dreams with my Buddy Hughes! For this week’s blog, we were assigned to research some more poems by renowned author Langston Hughes, and dive deeper into its meaning. When I was researching, a poem quickly caught my eye. It was titled “Harlem”. Now, my first thought was immediately the Harlem Renaissance, and as my interest was obviously peaked, I decided to choose this as my poem. While annotating I noticed several clever word and language choices Hughes pursued throughout this poem. Hughes opens with a rhetorical question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” This gives the audience something to think about and explore throughout the rest of the poem before he builds up to the main theme. For example, he utilized quite a lot of figurative language, such as similes, when he wrote “like a raisin in the sun”. This use of similes compared the idea of dreams to various different items, such as a shriveled up raisin to represent a broken drea...