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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Reality of Literary Sin and Consequence in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago

By: Ashley Daddona, Katie Haefele, Allie Flanagan, Quentin Wall, Denis Hartnett, Margaret Hall, and Brian Vargas

There is often a line when representing real life concepts in literature. Literature allows the […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Some Final ThinkING in the group American Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

Before starting this assignment, because I genuinely did not know how to start it and needed some time to procrastinate, I decided to look back a bit. I started at the beginning, a very good place to start I am […]
Denis Hartnett edited the blog post For The Greater Good of Who? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

Whenever I hear or read the phrase “for the greater good” it always makes me feel really uneasy. I feel like something about its connotations and many possible meanings just leaves the definition too open for int […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

A big question that I wrestled with throughout this series was how reliable is our narrator? It was something I struggled with more in The Fifth Season more than any of the other books because, up until the end, […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Evil Earth vs. Evil Death in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

An interesting piece of linguistics in these novels, that I’ve been monitoring for a while, is the use of the phrase Evil Earth. The phrase is said by almost every character that lives in the Stillness, g […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Rethinking Heroism in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

In The Broken Earth trilogy Jemisin tackles the idea of heroism in a very interesting way. For most of the trilogy I did not believe that there was a hero in this story. It seemed like The Stillness was too […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Nodes and The (Kind of) Real World Equivelent in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

I think that the most disturbing thing from The Broken Earth trilogy is the Node maintainers. Even as we have read the other two books, very few things have shocked me to my core as Syenite and Albastors journey […]
Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Moon: Jemisons Fruit of Knowledge in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Deeper Inspiration of Catastrophe in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

By Denis Hartnett, Jonah Goldstein, Patrick Alexander, Michee Jacobs, Lizzie Gellman, Heather McFarlane, and AJ Jurado

The 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan was a disaster on a scale to which the modern world is […]
Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Art of The Dedication in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

While combing through all three novels to look for quotes for a blog post I’m currently writing, I took a second to once again look at Jemisin’s dedications. These drew my attention because of how impersonal the […]

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