Essay?!
I have to write an essay for English... or rather, a "take home final" assigned on friday and due tomorrow. I thought it would be like all of the other essays that Hawking has assigned for this book, but no! It's supposed to be 3-5 pages long. By the time we're done with this terrible book called The House on Mango Street (only 100 pages, half of which are empty), I will have probably written about 10 pages of essay. 10 pages! I didn't think it was even possible to write 10 pages on this worthless contemporary tripe. But we get a choice of our mode of death:
"1. Choose three vignettes and discuss how they are representative of the entire novel. That is, what themes do they develop? How do these themes impact the main characters? How do the themes created a unifying structure for the book despite its non-traditional plot line?
2. Using the entire book as your playground, explore the novel with respect to the following literary tools:
Use of figurative language (metaphors anyone?)
Thematic development
Character development
Mango Street as social commentary"
Seeing as I'm going to die--no, seeing as I'm already dead from this book's hideous lack of worth, it shouldn't really matter which I pick.
Don't do it! Don't do it! I'm trying to go for "plausible deniability" as Murphy would say. (Does that make any sense?) Either way, I want to pretend I didn't know about it, but if SOMEONE knows about that darn essay, then it makes it more difficult for me to pretend I don't. Take one for the team Adam.
That book is amazing
ly good at showing the ineffectiveness of Wilson High School.