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Patrick Alexander edited the blog post If a Tree Falls in the Woods… in the group Film Talk: 7 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post An Active Journey in the group American Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Essun’s Story, a Slave Narrative in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Inheritance of the Son in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Jemisin on Being a Parent in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Environmentalism in Jemisin’s Work in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Character Development by Jemisin in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander wrote a new blog post Jemisin’s Characters and Their Relationships in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post Castrima as “The Chosen People” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Patrick Alexander edited the blog post The Link Between Worlds (and people) in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

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 […]

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