They said WHAT?
This character says that “It’s a terrible thing to take a person’s life - it’s the worst thing that anyone can ever do. Even God doesn’t forgive that. You know that, don’t you? And yet you did it. You are murderers."
Who is Baby Kochamma?
She just wanted to protect her 'daughter' from a world that its "dark and wild"
Who is The Witch?
Wide Sargasso Sea is a work of speculative fiction telling the backstory of the "mad woman in the attic" from this Charlotte Brontë novel.
What is Jane Eyre?
A native of Worthington Minnesota, he served with the 23rd infantry division as a rifleman from the autumn of 1969 until the winter of 1970.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
This civil war era locale of the Gulf Coast, ravaged by a hurricane in the 1960s, serves as the destination of the speaker in Trethewey's "Theories of Time and Space"
What is Ship Island?
This character says "When I'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin, my fingernails, everything...I'm on fire - I'm burning away into nothing"
Who is Mary Anne Bell?
After suffering ingestion by a deceitful lupine carnivore, this crimson-shrouded juvenile is emancipated, along with her elderly progenitor, via blade, and reflects upon the seductive nature of blossoms and the distinction between niceness and goodness.
Who is little Red Riding Hood?
The tale of Grenouille in Perfume coincides with the lead-up to this earthshaking, violent societal upheaval in 1787, ending the Ancien Régime
The French Revolution
Although they are in a moment of passionate intimacy, Mustafa Sa'eed nevertheless plunges a knife into her chest, killing her.
Who is Jean Morris?
These are the two reptiles found in the Frost poems we read - one bright green (and seen by a man with a crescent shaped tool) likely representing sin, and one as an embryonic shell sacrificed by a madman averse to the expanse of rail in America
What are a snake and a turtle?
She said "Sometimes I'll look up at the clock and it's half past five and I'm sure he's on his way home from the office and I'll panic, thinking 'I should have started the rice by now'"
Who is the The Woman/Mother from WTEWD?
Brabanzio's daughter, she ends her life with a pillow over her face.
Who is Desdemona?
This world changing attack on December 7, 1941 set in motion the events that led to Japanese internment in the USA, as seen in When the Emperor was Divine
What is Pearl Harbor?
During The Enlightenment, This Frenchman proved himself a master of satire and societal/political/religious criticism.
Who is Voltaire?
This poet wrote that although a personified America feeds him "bread of bitterness" and "sinks into (his) throat her tiger’s tooth, stealing (his) breath of life, (he) will confess (he) loves this cultured hell that tests (his) youth"
Who is Claude McKay?
This character says: "Zounds sir! You're robbed! Your heart is burst; you have lost half your soul! Even now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. Arise! Arise!"
Who is Iago?
This bride of Iago is fiercely loyal to her mistress and bluntly realistic about the nature of men.
Who is Emilia?
As reflected in her poetry, Natasha Trethewey is quite influenced by this major 1969 weather event
Hurricane Camille
Although he never won an Emmy®, he did manage a Pulitzer®, an Oscar®, eight Grammys®, eight Tonys®, and a bunch of other accolades for his song-smithing and storytelling skill.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
This Frost poem, in which the inconsistent form mimics the speaker's mindset, features ladders, fruit, dreamlike auditory imagery, hyperbole, and a hibernating rodent.
What is "After Apple Picking"
After leaving Antoinette in her room, this character sang
The white cockroach she marry The white cockroach she marry The white cockroach she buy young man The white cockroach she marry
Who is Amélie?
Despite being woman of Cyprus and likely a prostitute, she's nevertheless Cassio's love interest
Who is Bianca?
This elaborate performative dance style, unique to south India and featured as a plot device in The God of Small Things, is used in temples to tell Hindu stories and legends.
What is Kathakali dancing?
According to this Enlightenment figure, we live in the 'BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS' that God could have possibly created.
Who is Gottfried Leibniz?
In Trethewey's "Pilgrimage", the poet takes us on a tour of this once besieged riverside Mississippi town with "old mansions hunkered on the bluffs" in which "the whole city is a grave".
What is Vicksburg?