The following post is a follow-up piece to a blog that I wrote in Grade 10 AP titled “A Letter to War.” This piece is also inspired by Sara Tirmizi’s amazing writer’s seminar in my[…]
Category: Carmen
Hear Me For My Cause: A Review of Vertigo Theatre’s Julius Caesar ★★★★
As a person who undoubtedly appreciates Shakespeare’s works, but often does not like them due to the monotony studying them in high school has brought, I always relish the chance to see a Shakespeare play[…]
The Words Behind the Mask
“I’m a stranger in my own life.” ― Lang Leav, Sad Girls There is always a part of somebody that is never shown to others – like the clothes in your drawer that are buried forever and[…]
Night Terrors
Surely. Surely – this was the night that I was going to die. For an instant, in that narrow cut of light, I saw a face that seemed to have been transported directly from the[…]
Filtered Mirrors – Polished Personal Response
Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality? (June 2014) I would like to believe that I am tough. That I can[…]
Unwavering – Personal Response to Pride and Prejudice
The concept of marriage – although it is important to the plot of Pride and Prejudice – holds an even deeper meaning for insight into Elizabeth Bennett’s character. Through the first proposal from Mr. Collins,[…]
Robert Frost – AP Poetry Analysis
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his[…]
To Prove a Villain
“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn’t only be dangerous. They would be irresistible.”― Nenia Campbell[…]
Dear Grandma
Dear Grandma, I think I loved you. You were not, in fact, my grandmother. But rather you were someone who took the place of one I never had, and for that I am eternally grateful,[…]
Butterflies – Response to the Story of an Hour
“She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” –Kate Chopin I live, but I cannot fly. I[…]