Author Archive | CailinBoegel

Reflection

As confusing and frustrating as The Theory Toolbox was to read, I found myself actually interested in it’s content. It’s ambiguity amazed me. I honestly couldn’t comprehend the credibility behind such a anti-climatic, dead-end style critique of all of the elements I use to write everyday. Each chapter had me questioning the psychoanalytical purpose of […]

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Final Project Post

The First Ten Lies They Tell You in High School: A Critical Examination of the Dumb Adult Trope in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak “1. We are here to help you,” (Anderson 5) John Hughes’ 1985 classic, The Breakfast Club, begins with the secondary adult character of Richard Vernon— portrayed as what one would call a […]

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Proposal

The First Ten Lies They Tell You in High School: A Critical Examination of the Dumb Adult Trope in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak “1. We are here to help you,” (Anderson, 5) “Young Adult Literature” is a term that is innately without definite shape, as the content changes as culture and society develops. It was […]

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Time in Tropic of Orange

In a pop-quiz last Wednesday, our professor had us choose one term/notion/topic we’ve studied and discussed from The Theory Toolbox and explain where it is seen in Karen Tei Yamashtia’s Tropic of Orange. I found myself interested in the answer I formed and I thought I’d expand on it. So, in the TT, I decided […]

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Magical Realism

Karen Tei Yamashtia’s Tropic of Orange seems to serve as the perfect example of magical realism, as it is defined in The Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms. I had actually read the list of literary examples at the end of the definition in BG and was expecting to see the novel among them, as […]

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importance of ideology

The ironic part about ideology is that it has existed within me for the whole of my 21 years of living. Yet having finished reading it’s dedicated chapter in Nealon & Searls Giroux’s The Theory Toolbox, I realize this is the first time it’s been introduced to me as a field of study. All this time […]

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suspect of authority

The Working Question on page fifteen in relation to authority of meaning rose many questions to mind. The question asks who subsequently determines the meaning behind any piece of written work: the reader or the writer? In this particular example, a close friend has written a poem about their grandmother’s funeral and I’ve perceived the […]

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