Francis´ Blog Literary Criticism

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...

Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kurt Vonnegut is considered one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century. He blended literature with science fiction and humor, the absurd with pointed social commentary . The short story “ Harrison Bergeron” was published in 1961. Probably, Kurt Vonnegut was inspired to write “ Harrison Bergeron” in some life´s experiences. Vennegut was captured in Germany, he was a soldier in the united State Army during the world war II, he was a survive Allied bombing raids of Dresden that killed over 100,000 civilians and were kept secret for many years after the war. Maybe he tried to draw this experience of his life in this story of “Harrison Bergeron” because in the story Harrison was in jail and he scaped from there. Doubtless , Vonnegut considered that televisión was a waste of time and force intent on destroying independent thought by people. However, it is important to mention that probably Vonn...

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.