The Wesnaclama Blog

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 ...

Hello all! I hope that you are all doing well and making it through this quarantine I'm Wes and today I'll be reviewing The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  by Robert Louis Stevenson. As opposed to simply giving a summary and my opinion, I want to dive into the moral debate that is brought up in his novella, so I'll spare the plot so you guys can read the book yourself. Unfortunately in order to discuss the moral question posed the big plot twist will be spoiled, so I guess I lied to you. Huh. Anyways, onto the "review"! --- Some background: Throughout the story, we see two characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. We find out that Dr. Jekyll is an upstanding member of society and Mr. Hyde is the type of person to literally run over a child and not look back (it happened). In the end, we find out that Jekyll and Hyde were the same person all along. Jekyll, who was a scientist, had created a formula that could transform him into a different person. While...