Mellin AP Lit

The Escapist's anti-Nazi statements and actions concerned Sam and Joe's employers and publishers. What are the challenges of balancing social advocacy and private enterprise? Can you think of any issues today which would provide a similar challenge? What issues should comic books or graphic novels be exploring? Many questions arise when it comes to balancing social advocacy and private enterprise: Should companies be able to use their platforms to support/oppose social cause? Is it ethical to mix these two worlds? Does private enterprise add too much competition to social advocacy when it should be about coming together to support a cause and help one another? Or are the funds generated by private enterprise for social advocacy too generous to turn down?  An issue today that is commonly intertwined with private enterprise is climate change. Major companies such as Unilever, Patagonia, Nestle, Ikea, and Tesla have all been known to invest loads of money into the fight again

Ethan Walnut was the father of all fathers and the drinker of all drinkers; his Hanes white T always smelled of dependable and sensible Tide pods amalgamated with Buchanan’s Scotch Whisky; and he was relentlessly bursting with tales of both adventurous family hiking excursions to Acadia National Park and poker group mishaps culminating in either a broken femur or a broken marriage. Ethan’s complete disinterest in his work was akin to that of Peter Gibbons’ - although Ethan actually had a family to look after. This minute detail, however, was unimportant because his Quagmire-like jawline and Flandersesque altruistic personality allowed for his career-related aggrandizement. If left to his own devices, Ethan’s default nature would have him demolish a bag of Pop-Secret Movie Theater Butter microwavable popcorn and a glass to a bottle of Buchanan’s Scotch Whisky while viewing “The Pink Panther” with Steve Martin. Ironically, his love for comedy did not have an impressive

Compare this novel to those you've read previously. What appears here that appears in others? For example, Chabon was asked if he purposefully referenced the opening of  Moby Dick  when two unlikely bedmates are forced together to share a bed unwillingly with the opening of  Kavalier and Clay . Make connections in the first 12 chapters to other works of literature in a similar way. In this blog post, I will compare "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" to "The Posisonwood Bible," "Ceremony," and "There There" in terms of content and literary style.  Firstly, Chabon's novel is similar to "The Poisonwood Bible" because it references history periodically so as to both ground the reader in the story and add depth to the characters' narratives. In K+C, WWII and the Holocaust, although not the main story, are extremely significant to the time and greatly affect the manner in which the characters behave. For example, if

1.   What do the various poetic and musical forms Margaret Atwood uses to tell the maids’ story bring to the telling? Why do you think she chose to write  The Penelopiad   in this way? In The Penelopiad , Margaret Atwood chooses to use various poetic and musical forms to tell the maids' story. This allows the maids to tell their side of the story while keeping The Penelopiad  realistic in the sense that the maids were a voiceless group with no power or say whatsoever. The maids, being daughters of the poor and the slaves, would have been unable to voice their opinion so, in order to show this divide from the other characters while still having their perspective shine through, Atwood has them sing and perform poetry. In addition, although not the primary reason, using song can make for an easy interpretation of tone. For example, in the first Chorus Line (Chapter II), the maids perform the Rope-Jumping Rhyme. It is quite simple to understand their feelings because it is a song an