As Vast as the Ocean

  2025: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen In 2025, I’ll be graduating high school and entering a new stage of my life going to university. I’m really excited for the change. However, I’d like to tie up some loose ends before I go. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit, but for the minimum of five times I’ve watched the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie, I only read through half of the book. I began it on my first and only plane ride ever coming back from Taiwan in 2024 and never picked it back up (I’m only 38% in according to my Goodreads). I think it’ll also soothe my nerves that first impressions aren’t the only ones, which will be good as I enter a whole new environment at Detroit Mercy. 2026: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde One year into undergrad, and my youngest sister will be going to college too (I have no idea where) and that’ll be a big change for the family not having anyone in high school. Also, studying for the DAT will take up so much of my time, so I want...

  The Language with No Words Has so many letters. Yet There is no meaning.  Every letter of the English language is wasted, Used, and abused As they are separated by subtraction,  Added only to be divided,  Derived just to use an integral,  Held together by parenthesis, Later to be individually imprisoned by absolute value signs. This might seem like a useless language, But the truth of the matter  Is that it is only useless to people Because it isn’t the language of people. Architectural structures negotiates with the wind and rain So they can live in harmony. Measuring cups have designated roles in this language  As they cook meals with perfect ratios. Even Benjamin Franklin and George Washington’s photos Can be seen arguing in banks  While managing finances. So even though we as people weren’t meant to understand it, We have done our best to translate these inanimate objects’  Quarrels and agreements So that we ca...

  I’m used to poetry being written as regular sentences randomly split up and people claiming it changed their lives, and even ending with the classic line, ”Now read this backwards.” I’m lying, don’t do that. Because I don’t want to either, I wouldn’t make you do that. In actuality, I don’t have the burning hatred and disdain I normally see in my peers when poetry is brought up. I like it sometimes, actually. In a book I read, Circe by Madeline Miller, the classification is fantasy and historical fiction. Yet every time I try to describe the book, I’m drawn towards the word “poetic.” The book is written in sections of Circe’s life, every few chapters a new few hundred years (because this is Greek mythology so gods and their children live forever). The way each section ended was not absolute, but gave a different, more universal and sentimental outlook to the situation. To me, that broadened perspective, that satisfying ending that resembles the feeling of a fairytale book g...

       During this semester of AP Lit, I’ve been very grateful for the amount of reading I’ve done for the class. Picking short yet influential books has given me a variety of perspectives and different modes of analysis I plan to carry with me to college. It ALSO has had a very rewarding impact on my Goodreads account. Without The Stranger, The Alchemist, and other “The Blank” books that are around 200 pages, I would’ve never reached my 30 book goal, so with that I will dedicate the title of this blog to how I feel about that: “The ThankYou.” I would also like to give a special thanks to the singular week it took to read Candide, you will never be forgotten. All jokes aside, another aspect of this class hasn’t only been the reading, but the writing as well. Something this class has offered that other English classes lack is the philosophy that is so deeply embedded in all the lessons. I still look back fondly at the power paragraph where I talk about the color of gr...

  The true tragedy of Othello was the lack of communication. When considering if it was fate or free will that led to the tragedy of Othello, it may have been his fate to die, but all of us are fated to die. It was his free will and bad decisions that led him to die the pitifully tragic way he did. Othello was a Moor, yet he defied all societal expectations and became a general of the Venetian army, married a Venetian woman, and even had more power than her noble father. The man was an enigma to the entirety of 16th century society. Yet when it came to going against the standard marriages that treat women like objects, he was one with the crowd.  If no one had trusted him or his judgements, or even taken a dare on him, he wouldn’t have climbed the ranks as he did. It was this defiance that entranced his wife as well, so it’s clear Desdemona supports not going with the norm. She not only loved his stories, him as a person, and eloped against her father’s wishes to marry him. Wh...

When I’m down on my luck, the best pick-me-up is something that gets me even lower on my luck: knitting. I mean, how hard can it be? Old grandmas do it all the time! The first step to this stress-relieving hobby is to get horribly overwhelmed by the options of what to make. Something small will feel more rewarding more quickly, but comes at the cost of taking at least seven hours (even though it was described as quick and easy on the ever-deceiving Pinterest). I could always start a larger project, so I can always have something to come back to, but the real joke of it all is that I’ll never come back to finish the project (the unfinished pile of teddy bears is starting to become no joke..). The second step, although it may seem easier than the first, is so hard that it makes your problems feel small in comparison. The process is so tedious, it makes any sane person question why they’d even begin doing this: picking a color of yarn. It’s hard not to be fooled by its premise: I get cont...