The Wesnaclama Blog

Sup! It’s Nate here with the final post of the year! It’s strange to think that school has gone by so fast. While in quarantine, I’ve been going back through the Harry Potter series that I first read as a kid. And it’s been great. But why is it so great? Spoilers throughout, if you’re one of the 5 people who haven’t read Harry Potter I’m not gonna do a detailed summary for this one since the series is so popular, but here’s the gist: Harry lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin (who aren’t so nice) because his parents are dead. Then, he finds out he’s a wizard and his parents were murdered by Vold--I mean You-Know-Who--, the most powerful Dark wizard, but who was defeated (not killed; sort of taken out of his body i guess) when he tried to kill Harry. Harry goes to Hogwarts (a magical school) and makes friends with Ron and Hermione. Hogwarts’ headmaster is Dumbledore, who will be important later. With the power of plot armor, he foils a few of Voldemort’s attempts to come back to ...

~Emma Murawski           Recently I finished reading Anthem by Ayn Rand. Anthem was written in 1937 and touches upon a somewhat touchy subject especially during the time the book was written: society and its flaws. Anthem is a fictional book told from the perspective of a man by the name Equality 7-2521 who talks about the flaws in his society where everyone is part of the whole. You can’t look different, be smarter than your peers, or even think a thought other than what you are taught. You can’t have or give someone a name other than what they are given and you refer to yourself as we and others as they. In a world where there are no lightbulbs or cars and basically no chance to fall in love other than one night in the town designated for mating, if you break any of these laws, you will be punished. However, Equality 7-2521 is different. They grew up hating school because it was too easy and grew very tall and slim. Ever since a young age, teachers would mock ...

Hello all! It's me, Wes, writing to you from the friendly confines of my bedroom, again. I would first like to say that recently I've been diving into some Sherlock Holmes, specifically A Study In Scarlett . See, I could write a blog post about it (it is an absolute classic), but that would be a bit boring in my opinion. Rather, I want to write a post about 2020 (that was inspired by Emily's recent blog post). Every month in 2020 so far has seen the occurrence of bad event/s. Normally, bad events happen and we move on, however, 2020 has seen a string of might I say horrible events happen back to back. This, unsurprisingly, has been made into a meme by people which has added to the aura of sucky-ness, so I want to take a look into every month so far and point out some notable sucky things that have happened. Grab some popcorn cause this is going to be a long post. January Jan. 3rd - The world sees tensions between two nuclear-capable countries (the US and Iran) reach ...

Hi guys, this is Clara. During quarantine, I decided to go back to the classics and read Emma by Jane Austen. Emma focuses on a rich young woman (Emma) who has no interest in finding love for herself but loves to conjure love matches for her friends. Though Emma is clever, she often miscalculates situations, which causes herself and the people close to her strife and confusion throughout the novel. After she has success with matchmaking her governess and a widower named Mr. Weston at the beginning of the book, she befriends a girl with unknown parentage named Harriet Smith, and sets her eyes on a match between Harriet and Mr. Elton, the village vicar. Emma makes sure nothing gets in the way of this planned couple, and even convinces Harriet to refuse a marriage proposal from Mr. Martin, a farmer that Harriet knows well. As the novel progresses and Emma continues to meddle in other people’s personal lives, she begins to realize how wrong she was about certain people’s true intentions, ...

Emma Murawski           Hello! Recently, I finished a book called The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Written in 1984, its Mexican-American author immerses the reader in a world far different than their own.           The House on Mango Street does not necessarily have a set plot or storyline, and this makes this book so notable. Instead, Cisneros totally submerges the reader into the life of a young Chicana (Mexican-American) girl named Esperanza living in a packed Latino neighborhood in Chicago. Esperanza, telling the story from her point of view, explains almost every single aspect of her life on Mango Street in immense detail. The book is divided up into many chapters that vary from half of a page-long to many more. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of Esperanza’s life. She talks so much about what seem to be random features of Mango Street, yet they all make sense in the end and help the reader engage themselve...

I am sincerely flattered that you wrote about me (am I famous now?). As you've noticed, I'm making this a letter to you as opposed to a comment, as Jack suggested. But anyways, back to business. I must concede that my grammar is not too best, and in the future, I will make attempts to improve that. With that aside, I have no intention to refute your refute of my refute. I don't want this to become "A Review of Your Reviews of My Review of Your Reviews of My Review of Your Reviews" (I hope I got the wording right). I also have no intention of writing an entire essay, because you really aren't worth the time, no matter how fun. So I just want to say, good job on your last post, I really enjoyed it. (Now to see if I can milk this into a comment that will count) You can call out the hypocrisy in this post; I'm well aware that it is present, so perhaps there is a subconscious part of me that does want you to respond, so respond... or don't. Best wishes ...