Francis´ Blog Literary Criticism

Probably, Langston Hughes inspired from his childhood experience and he wrote "Thank You, M'am" because he grew up with his maternal grandmother for the reason that, when he was a baby his parents separated, his father moved to Mexico and his mother moved constantly during his youth. This short story tells about an old woman who takes a role of a mother just for a short period of time, because Roger is boy, he is alone with anyone who cares him. Probably Langston wanted represent his grandmother into Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones because she raised him in his childhood until she died when he was a teenager. In this story "Thank You, M'am" Langston talks about two important themes such as shame when he's reprimanded for trying to steal; and forgiveness, when Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones gave Roger a second chance and teaches him an important lesson about dignity and respect and also that people can do right things in hard circumstances. In...

                       Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She grew up on her parents’ farm, outside the town, and went to the same one-room schoolhouse her mother had attended. This rural area of upstate New York, straddling Niagara and Erie Counties, had been hit hard by the Great Depression. The few industries the area enjoyed suffered frequent closures and layoffs. Farm families worked desperately hard to sustain meager subsistence. But young Joyce enjoyed the natural environment of farm country, and displayed a precocious interest in books and writing. Although her parents had little education, they encouraged her ambitions. When, at age 14, her grandmother provided her with her first typewriter, she began consciously preparing herself, “writing novel after novel” throughout high school and college. Joyce Carol Oates   is one of the United States most prol...

Hello! welcome to my personal blog about literary criticism.  In this blog I pretend to show a different and fantastic world through great stories. I am going to give my ideas and opinions about some stories  of  traditional, sociological, mythological, formalist, psychoanalytical, structuralist, and feminist criticism. The stories name I´m going to critic are; "Thank You, M´am", "Harrison Bergeron", "Uglies", "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "Doll´s House" . The porpuse of this blog is to use this amazing tool every single week to share with others my ideas and opinions about those  nice readings I already mencioned before. My personal opinions are going to be formed based on class discussions and internet investigations. I expect to learn important aspects about above readings, and hope to enjoy those stories and enrich my critic point of view about reading.