English @ SUNY Geneseo | Patrick Alexander | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/palexander/activity/ Activity feed for Patrick Alexander. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 383602edc807e5ccca136c85b747df3f Patrick Alexander edited the blog post If a Tree Falls in the Woods... in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12369/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:36:53 -0500 Labels like “hero” or “villain” are things that can only be given to someone by someone else, and are therefore based on outsider’s perceptions of those people. Novels like Deliverance or movies like Bad Day at B […]

]]> 0 8f2cc8a58d90d130f5438004573bb4af Patrick Alexander joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12095/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:32:38 -0500 0 c39ac708061884c0d88b9fe95f82e516 Patrick Alexander edited the blog post An Active Journey in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11570/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:09:15 -0500 An Active Journey

Writing this essay, in and of itself, is a lot like writing the blog posts on which it is built. A huge problem I had initially was anxiety over how to start them. A fear over the uncertainty […]

]]> 0 566dfbc87213715166066bb9eedb7a1b Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Essun's Story, a Slave Narrative in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11400/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:43:25 -0500 Understanding a Slave Narrative
In the period of American history shortly before the Civil War, a type of biography became quite popular in the north. These were the stories of those slaves escaped from the South […]

]]> 0 4b37ecbcd13d2ac9326712304cce2bad Patrick Alexander commented on the post, Utopetroleum (and Cow Farts™), on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11386/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:13:30 -0500 Perhaps the solution to the issue of an entrenched ruling aspect of our society fervently denying the existence of climate change for their own purposes can also be seen in Jemisin’s novels. The same issues are […]

]]> 0 ea1e5c6fb64b16876f8d5f6a813bc35e Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Inheritance of the Son in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11368/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 06:04:34 -0500 Essun has three children over the course of the The Broken Earth series, yet only her daughter Nassun manages to live beyond infancy. Both sons die at extremely young ages, unable to even truly start living b […]

]]> 0 5a6d81a0275ec81cf8d9f59878350649 Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Jemisin on Being a Parent in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11342/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:51:33 -0500 The life of an orogene from start to finish is a gauntlet of rejection, abuse and exploitation, and it all starts as many things do, in the beginning. That is, the personal beginning of every orogene, their […]

]]> 0 8dcf4cecae013b5e14ad0276d1f41480 Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Environmentalism in Jemisin's Work in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11295/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:08:03 -0500 This post might be short, though we will see.

Jemisin had several issues to which she wanted to draw attention to in writing The Broken Earth series, though one that stands out to me is how she addresses the w […]

]]> 0 535cec1e0ce997ad948fb608d9909a34 Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Character Development by Jemisin in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11263/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:51:43 -0500 Analyze one character (ex Nassun) actions she takes/words she speaks in different points in the novels

Attempt to see how Jemisin changes that character and to what end

One of the most difficult things for a […]

]]> 0 3395e7d1d367f65bfc45bbd13c3e7746 Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Jemisin's Characters and Their Relationships in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11207/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 02:30:17 -0500 Apologies in advance for how many times I say the word “relationship”. It certainly grated on me.

Jemisin’s ability to write characters that reasonably react and exist in the world she has created is evident in […]

]]> 0 ce53403360d1faeea454194dc1b45eb9 Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Castrima as "The Chosen People" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11198/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:33:37 -0500 So, after going back through The Stone Sky a bit, I noticed that the people of Castrima’s trek through the desert was a familiar scene and in a part of the story that reminded me of another story, that of Moses […]

]]> 0 9668d33c09a21bc9e8b19e50408ce860 Patrick Alexander edited the blog post The Link Between Worlds (and people) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11162/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:17:11 -0500 As established throughout The Broken Earth series, orogenes have the ability to connect to one another via their orogeny and become more powerful as a result of this. Utilizing this ability to foster greater […]

]]> 0 4b739b4093632428f95fc7e734b41cc2 Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Response to Denis Hartnett's "Separating Good Art From Problematic Artists" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10888/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:21:28 -0500 There is a popular saying that often arises when analyzing an author’s work, and I think its meaning applies well here; “The author is dead”. This phrase means that the author’s work should be analyzed separately […]

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