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Elisabeth Thompson Professor Helms Global Literature 29 September 2021             Death and its various connotations has been a topic of much discussion throughout the texts we have thus far covered in class. Death and the King’s Horseman, a play written by Wole Soyinka, is an especially important example of this topic, though its coverage spannedContinue reading “Death and its Connotations”

I knew I wanted to do something creative for our first project, mainly in writing since that’s what I felt most comfortable with. But because all of our readings and topics revolved around distinct cultures I had no real knowledge or experience with, I felt uncomfortable trying to emulate them. So it took me aContinue reading “Cooperative Collie – A Children’s Story”

As the story of Death and the King’s Horsemen is told a man must commit ritual suicide and the play goes through how people try to stop it and inevitably fail but it never talks about what was going on in the minds of the men completing the ritual, which is what I am goingContinue reading “First Project”

We’re outsiders  We hear death’s lullaby song.  We wonder what we did to deserve this punishment.  We see people fading away like ghosts.   We worry we won’t make it another day.  We want to be a part of the world around us,  But we’re outsiders.  We pretend to be all right and held together, but we’re not.  We feel the emptiness closing in around us.  We touch the invisible chains that imprisoned us here.  We worry that we’llContinue reading “We’re Outsiders”

The brain behind “shinrasblog” is intelligent, passionate, and charismatic. Their three projects were very compelling, and, if I had been active and present in class, their work probably would have made a huge impact on my understanding and respect for the texts. The thought that went into their projects transforms their schoolwork into honest, genuineContinue reading “second project — project review”

Ah young love, don’t you love it? Love makes people do crazy things, doesn’t it? It might make you, change your look, act like someone you’re not, or in some extreme cases kill yourself cause you cant be with them. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Amijima follows the laterContinue reading “The Tragic Tales of Love Suicides Throughout Literature (Project 3)”

I had a lot of fun when creating this board game. I have made a board game in the past for a Rethinking Modern British Literature class and it most definitely had its flaws. I could definitely say after creating one before that this time through was a lot smoother. Sadly I could not createContinue reading “Reflection on Project 3”