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  1. Apr 2022
    1. disgruntled by the lack of energy

      I found this sentence interesting because, isn't yoga something that's not really high energy anyway? It's meant to calm you down and relieve stress, so why would they want them to be high energy?

  2. Feb 2022
    1. At the same time, she seems indifferent and cold towards her mother.

      I noticed this as I was watching the film, too. The trauma that Raimunda experienced, maybe made her be stuck in that pre-Oedipal theory.

    2. The farther into the movie one gets, the more ones heart breaks for her.

      I really like this sentence as a way to start the essay and introduce the topic of Raimunda's journey throughout the film.

  3. Sep 2020
    1. It features our own unique textual interpretations and what they may mean to us on a more personal level.

      No two people would have the same interpretation, and it is great that we can have multiple views on the same text, its what makes it interesting!

    2. We do not claim to have a “perfect” or “complete” representation of American literature.

      I think we can never truly define it because it changes as time goes on.

    3. American literature and American history?

      I do always end up defining American Literature by comparing it to American History, but I know there are some huge differences between them.

    1. ce. On the other hand, there is no such thing as "Native American litera- ture," though it may yet, someday, come into be

      I think we definitely have to search harder for Native American Literature than World Lit, British Lit or American Lit, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it doesn't exist (maybe it only exists under American Lit, and not it's own)

    1. among them the father and mother

      the plague had killed many in the tribe, including the mother and father of Red Shell and Wild Sage. Big Wave watches the children now after the plague.