Like many people in most situations, I tend to stick with what I know. There have been multiple elements of If I Ever Get Out of Here and The Miseducation of Cameron Post that I can relate to, making it easy to engage in discussions and write my thoughts about each. I can understand some … Continue reading Reading Beyond the Bubble →

4/7/21 How Can You Relate to a Ghost? For this blog post, I have decided to engage with a text that we are yet to read during this course. This graphic novel is,  Anya's Ghost, by Vera Brosgol. In this tale a young unpopular girl becomes the best of friends with the ghost of a … Continue reading Philip Zeidman – How Can You Relate to a Ghost? →

I regularly leave my comfort zone when tackling physical tasks. But when bringing up topics that I am uneducated in, I freeze up. In the Miseducation of Cameron Post we read about a young girl discovering her sexuality as being part of the LGBTQ+ community while growing up in a strict conservative town. Though my … Continue reading Breaking Free →

A novel I have not written about is Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. Although I have not completed the novel and we have not discussed it in class yet, the novel has captivated me. When I looked at the syllabus at the start of the semester, I was excited to learn we would be reading … Continue reading The Surprise that was “Dread Nation” →

Although the Lowell Offering was one of the first texts we analyzed this semester, it has continued to stick out when I think of Representing Adolescence. This is due to the surprising content of the text that is frankly quite jarring. It's uncomfortable to read about these working experiences which did make me slightly hesitant … Continue reading Working Hard or Hardly Working? →

When I was in high school I had the incredible opportunity to travel to the Navajo reservation in New Mexico in the spring of 2019. It was through my church youth group, a very accepting and inclusive group I love. I know most church trips tend to take the said trips in order to “bring … Continue reading When your not the “Pop” in Pop Culture: Exploring “If I Ever Get Out of Here” and the Desire to fit in →

I have yet to write about If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth partially because I just haven’t had the chance to find something that I wanted to write about in regards to this book, and partially because I think I relate the least with this story and it’s characters. Throughout this … Continue reading Music in Friendship →

Throughout Cameron's life, she encounters new people coming in and out of the picture; do these people change who Cameron is or just shape her life in a different way? Friends, family, and authority figures guide the direction of a child's life in order for them to fit into society, and Cameron pushes against these … Continue reading Shaping & Defining Adolescence →

I am choosing to write about Dread Nation, as I have yet to write about this novel, nor have I engaged much with the material outside of reading it. When I began reading this novel, I had expectations that this historical fiction would be based in some facts, but mainly veer away from the historical … Continue reading Prejudice, Power, Plagues, and Pandemics →

A book I have not written about yet that I am choosing to talk about in this blog post is The House on Mango Street. Something that is new about this text is that I have never read a story this real I would say. Never have I read a story that pretty much puts the … Continue reading Shying Away From The House On Mango Street →