Category Archives: Close Reading

This poem exposes the practices and behaviors that are conducted during an election day. In the poem, Bernstein shows that people are classified under two categories: one range of people engages themselves in the election and its consequences, while the other … Continue reading →

Even though Coal Mountain Elementary consists of three lesson plans, where the curriculum relies on excerpts from American Coal Foundation, this book is not what it seems to be. Mark Nowak’s purpose in the book is not to teach a … Continue reading →

In Citizen: an American Lyric, Claudia Rankine usually employs the second person narrative point of view, the pronoun “you.” This narrative technique is a very powerful point of view that has the ability to influence readers in ways that first … Continue reading →

In my close reading of this week texts, I focus my study on depicting the psychological status of the captain Willard, a major character in Fiona Banner’s The Nam, alongside to the realism that resulted from an honest and accurate … Continue reading →