ENCW 202 Spring 2022
Posted in Dissatisfaction, Exploitation on Apr 5th, 2022
“The Semplica Girl Diaries” is a story about being grateful for what you have, as it could change any time. As well as this, it warns people how their lives can change if they make bad financial decisions, no matter how their upbringing was. This is shown with the main character, as he says […]
Posted in Exploitation on Apr 5th, 2022
“The Semplica Girl Diaries” by George Saunders is an epistolary story in which we learn about a middle-class father who struggles to keep his family happy as well as keeping the appearance of a wealthy family. The father throughout the story is a pitiful character whom the reader can sympathize with, since he is a character […]
Posted in Exploitation on Apr 5th, 2022
“The Semplica Girl Diaries” by George Saunders is an epistolary story which takes the form of diary entries written by a middle class father. The narrator is highly preoccupied with attaining the appearance of affluence for his family, so when he wins $10,000 in the lottery, he chooses to spoil his daughter Lilly for her […]
Posted in Exploitation, Women on Apr 4th, 2022
“The Semplica Girl Diaries” was a story that started out somewhat relatable and then took a turn to the disturbing as George Saunders takes a view on wealth and women in poverty. The narrator has begun keeping a journal “for future generations” after turning 40. He and his family (A wife and three children) are […]
Posted in Exploitation, Religion on Mar 19th, 2022
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a story in which an old angel (lacking the superficial, ethereal form one may expect from an angel) is found by a couple. The couple seeks explanation for the angel from a local mystic, as well as their town priest. In the meantime, the couple confines and […]
Posted in Exploitation on Mar 16th, 2022
In Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s “The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” a couple, Pelayo and Elisenda, find an old man with massive buzzard-like wings in their yard around the time of their child’s birth. Despite his haggard appearance, their neighbor deduces that he is an angel who was sent to collect their ill child but was so […]