I kind of saw this coming if I am being completely honest, since the professor did give us a head-up in class that the main character would have “mommy issues”. I did NOT estimate for once how intense, and filled with these wide range of thoughts this novel would get. My impression of purely the […]
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My initial impression of “The Shrouded Woman” by Bombal was somewhat not very optimistic since it starts off itself by a woman on her deathbed. But as I gradually got to reading this short story, I realised that some parts actually kept me quite hooked and gripped but other parts really made me question the […]
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Proust seems to have used a new approach to narrating by using external action instead of internal conciousness. Instead of starting off with a generic sequential approach to narrating, the reading goes into passages of semi wakefulness, and disorients me with scattered pieces of his memory. which shows that the narrator is not stable or […]
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Hello everyone, I’m Zahra Mirza, and I’m excited to be in this class RMST 202 with you! I am international student from Mumbai, India and I am pursuing a major in Economics in my third year. I am extremely passionate about financial markets, international economics and trade! Apart from my studies, I find myself immersed […]
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