Introduction

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.  

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Thank You M´am (Traditional Criticism, Langston Hughes)

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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...
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Uglies (Sociological Criticism, Scott Westerfeld)

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The novel “Uglies” is about “uglies” and “Pretties” when people are sixteen years old they have an operation to turn pretties because they born being uglies. After the operation they have to move to Prettie town because before sixteen  the live in Ugly town . This novel reflects a huge issue that our society is suffering. Most people want to be accepted for the society. Specially, teenagers want to be pretties, they compare by themselves with others and in many cases they do not accept the appearance they have because they think they are not as pretties as they want to be. Adolescents want to look like famous people, such as physically, how they wear, how they talk and also the way they act. But why people desire to be and look like other? Society think that they just can achieve the success if they are pretties, they can get a good job, have a beautiful family, have friends with a high status whatever make them feel happy. Currently, girls are suffering low self- este...
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