English @ SUNY Geneseo | Emma Gears | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/eeg10/activity/ Activity feed for Emma Gears. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1e30c051fd4f6aa8f5ebc8dfd549b6b7 Emma Gears wrote a new blog post POV in Lilith's Brood in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9056/ Sun, 19 Nov 2017 01:31:12 -0500 I just wanted to articulate more clearly what I was talking about in class on Friday about the first-person POV in Imago.

In the first book of Lilith’s Brood, we are only given Lilith’s POV through third p […]

]]> 0 19b3e2cd09207f58c7a1582da56875d6 Emma Gears commented on the post, Patriarchy and Fledgling, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/09/patriarchy-and-fledgling/#comment-876 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:05:38 -0500 That is an excellent point, one that didn’t even occur to me before. Thank you for sharing!

]]> 6b3519ed08d2819958063766c351cc6f Emma Gears wrote a new blog post "Care is the antidote to violence" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8928/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:31:39 -0500 One of the questions that Butler’s fiction consistently asks is, “Why are people so relentlessly awful to each other?” In “Adulthood Rites” and “Dawn,” to me one of the answers seems to be that people act this way […]

]]> 0 08522ad8ff5a22dd7c5dd084309555b4 Emma Gears wrote a new blog post Patriarchy and Fledgling in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8793/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:08:55 -0500 I always like to look up books on GoodReads and see what other people thought, and I came across this (I thought) brilliant analysis of Fledgling.

Reviewer Nick Imrie said:
We do get to see a little of the […]

]]> 0 e2f9560801cad20c036a31bd7df362b0 Emma Gears wrote a new blog post Colonialism in Clay's Ark in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8698/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:27:30 -0500 On Friday, Dr. McCoy pushed us to remember that it isn’t Eli waking up and scratching the original inhabitants of the enclave that set the world up for an epidemic, it’s that people went to Proxi Two and were […]

]]> 0 16a736318032591b6aef4a111e1ec502 Emma Gears edited the blog post An author's intent vs. what a reader perceives in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8538/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:19:53 -0500 On Friday, Dr. McCoy brought up the difficulties Octavia Butler had with her readers’ reactions to Bloodchild, namely the insistence that it was about slavery, even though Butler herself said that it wasn’t. This is something that all writers struggle with; how can I make the themes of my story, poem, etc. clear to readers? How can I be sure that…[Read more]

]]> 0 e407b6aa6e103e8f7fe9ff39fa5b9772 Emma Gears edited the blog post Dominion and The Aeneid in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8215/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:16:49 -0500 Spoilers if you haven’t finished Dominion yet!

One thing that struck me about the last section of Dominion, Lamentations, was how similar the plot was to Virgil’s Aeneid. If you strip proper names from the plot of Lamentations, this is what it sounds like:

A man, who is exceptional for his physical prowess, has a duty to his people/family t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ee3c97d44bc535e1d091cc9544a83f9 Emma Gears edited the blog post Dream Houses in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8183/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 01:42:46 -0500 It’s funny to me how something can have slipped entirely out of your memory, and then the barest hint of anything related to it can pull the whole memory to the forefront of your mind.

I’d completely forgotten that I’d ever seen Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House before, and I didn’t realize it when Dr. McCoy said the title of the movie out…[Read more]

]]> 0 3adcdcbbce40c44d295eddf3da0265a6 Emma Gears wrote a new blog post How Much Does Language Matter? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8111/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:53:58 -0500 I have been thinking about what Dr. McCoy said on Monday about using ‘slave’ vs. ‘enslaved person’. This issue of language is something that has bothered me a lot in the past.

I absolutely agree with Dr. McC […]

]]> 0 75613c4497ffdf17e0df87fa28f32963 Emma Gears edited the blog post Good Writing and Trust in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8057/ Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:24:11 -0500 As Dr. McCoy pointed out a couple classes ago, we all started to read The Turner House with expectations. For me, a lot of my expectations for the novel were framed by the fact that we’re reading this in a college course and plenty of news outlets had named it the best book of the year. However, pretty much all of my expectations were thwarted, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 23a1ca7c45bbfd0df9629d82e2b9265e Emma Gears edited the blog post Killing Female Characters in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7903/ Sat, 25 Feb 2017 23:10:28 -0500 In my small group discussion today, the questione was asked, “Why did Cordelia have to die?” This bothered me a lot when I finished reading King Lear, because Cordelia’s death doesn’t seem to have any immediate purpose other than increasing the drama and tragedy of the final scene. I want to talk about how Cordelia’s death was portrayed and offer…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7509ee79bd5329bb8f6c33cd472eea8 Emma Gears wrote a new blog post Interview with a Vampire (/My Dad) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8014/ Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:40:13 -0500 Yesterday it occurred to me that my family actually bought a house during the crisis, sometime around May 2008. (We don’t actually live in that house anymore.) I was around twelve when we moved into that house, a […]

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