Notes from a Lıterature Student

           The movie  Barton Fink  (1991) is written and directed by Coen Brothers holds many discussions ever since it aired on the white screen. The movie includes varieties of symbolic meanings as well as hidden messages. The movie tells the story of a writer who struggles with writing a script for Holywood. The movie has characteristics of metafiction as it is fiction about the process of creating fiction. Throughout the movie, the audience tries to grasp the idea of reality because it is repeatedly broken by irrational scenes. The spaces of the movie are different and each space contributes to the reality or unreality of the movie.          First of all, the first scene opens up to a backstage of a theatre in which a man is repeating the lines of the scene. The first line of the movie is the first line of the play and it goes as; ‘’Daylight is a dream if you lived with your eyes closed.’’ This line includes much symbolic reading for the movie. The audience could interpret the

When we examine a work of literature, we frequently think about social and political factors that can help us interpret it. It is possible to disregard these concerns when examining a work; however, if we disregard the social and political context of Garrett Hongo's poem "Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?" we may be left with a poem that simply lists food types; however, a closer examination reveals that it is much more.               Hongo’s poem is filled with exotic fruits and vegetables that create a siesta in the minds of the reader. Before learning about the heritage of the poet one could think that the writer has Hispanic heritage but with a little research, one could learn that he has a hyphenated ethnicity. He is a Japanese-American man which is often referred to as Asian-American. Hyphenated cultures often experience racism for not being a native. Although America as a continent has always been a melting pot for cultures, it is ironic that one of its bi

         Like a coin, every story includes two sides which could include a different narration from one another. For hundreds of years, the white narration was the sole account for colonization and imperialism and it was high time for the counter-narrative. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been one of the colonizer parts of the story while with Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the history encounters the colonized side for the first time and it allows the readers to compare and contrast between in terms of African representations.               In An African Voice Achebe explains how Europeans used literature to serve their imperialistic needs as they justify their actions in terms of trade and slavery until the 20th century in which Africans raised their voice and re-claimed their history. He explains his novel as a reaction against the bad literature of the past and he thinks that there should be a balance of stories- where every people has the chance to tell their own stories and contri

                One of the social studies that deals with the topic of evil are literature. The debate usually centers on whether the characters are good or evil, or whether society as a whole has good or evil aspects. Even the impact of literature on being good or evil has been explored, but there are three books that might be used to discuss the concept of evil and its three stages: birth, repentance, and guilty pleasure.                                    French philosopher and writer Georges Bataille issue a theory in his book titled  Literature and Evil  (1957 )  which parallels evil with its relation to childhood with an essay that describes the theory via Emily Bronte's  Wuthering Heights  and its young protagonists. He explains how the child protagonists failed to cope up with the adult world because they grow together with a ‘’infantile freedom’’ that included their wild and passionate life and as they grow day by day the realities and the norms of the adult world sepa