Something that instantly intrigued me from My Favorite Thing is Monsters was the mother’s obsession with superstitions. The first one she states is, “pass a cross-eyed stranger, bring home danger. Take yer glove off and spit in yer palm (Ferris). In the next few pages she continues to say more about the way the tip of …
Graphic novels and comics provide us with a new way of comprehending stories and novels, through a vivid intersection of images and words. My Favorite Thing is Monsters plays even […]
“Everybody goes to jail at some point, don’t they?” (Jones 79). This line, and this message, shook me when they appeared at the beginning and the end of chapter 5 […]
I found it very compelling in Mongrels how badly the narrator wants to fit in with his family. The narrator even eats raw meat which he finds disgusting, “because [he’s] a werewolf. Because [he’s] part of this family” (Jones 45). Humans have a strong desire to fit in to their families, friend groups, schools, and society as …
I wrote this post early so my quote is from the first day of reading, but I believe it will continue to stay relevant throughout the entirety of the novel. The quote I chose reads, “He was an angel of death ushering these things on their stalled journey from this sphere. Not a mere exterminator” …
Zone One is a novel that seems endlessly quotable, but for this post I’ve decided to focus on the sentence “Both speaker and listener, sharer and receiver, wanted to be remembered” […]
Tananarive Due’s Twitter is full of tweets with the hashtag #BlackHorror, ranging in content from news about her #BlackHorror class, the Sunken Place, which she teaches at UCLA to tweets […]
I tried to keep this post as relevant as possible, and as everyone knows the most current news all revolve around Hurricane Florence, or as many news articles have been calling it, The Monster. Although it may seem like an odd comparison, the similarities between Hurricane Florence and the Baka in The Good House are undeniable. …
In many ways Tananarive Due’s The Good House uses a medley of elements, that on the surface seem to clash, but put into practice, come together to make a riveting story. One of these elements is her use of pop culture references, mostly music, to reveal the motives and internal thoughts of the characters in […]
In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture (Seven Theses), one of his central theses states that one component of a monster is its depiction of that which is different (7). Meaning that we classify those who are different, whether it be culturally, racially, or economically, as monstrous. Sadly, in contemporary movies that display monsters, this still […]
