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ARTIST POST- A way how Trevor’s book impacted my piece is how often he said “he didn’t know where he belonged”. It gave me the idea to talk about what I relate as being a black woman in society. Also on how a lot of black people are able to relate to each other based on how we are treated in life and experiences we’ve had. Something that I notice about Trevors writing style is that he has humor in it. Something else he did was explain different events that happened in his life. I’m not good at writing in a humorous way, so I used his way of explanations to fuel how I write. Going back to Trevor’s quote of never really knowing where he belongs, I relate to that. I don’t know what I am. I don’t know what I’m mixed with or what cultures I am a part of besides being black, so I often take comfort in at least knowing that. I wish I knew more of myself and my history though. Trevor had a lot of moments where he discovered who he was and what is important to him. One big thing that I find interesting is how he was able to connect the whole book to his mother. And how she was his rock throughout his whole life. That was a really cool way to dedicate his book to his mom. You can also see how much he loves his mom with the way he describes his relationship with her and describes her. Like in the beginning of the book on page 13 when he says “We had a very Tom and Jerry relationship” which implies that they play around with each other in a violent way. Trevor’s book showed me that it’s ok not to know your place, that it’s not just me, and that others have or do feel like that too.

Reading Born a Crime by Trevor Noah I noticed that we share similar experiences, the feeling of feeling “other” and being conflicted on where you belong. Noah talks about struggling with his identity not knowing which category he fit into most. Noah would mostly write his stories in a humorous manner but there would be times he would be serious and detailed, I decided to take this approach. I wanted to try out the humorous style but it didn’t seem to work out. I decided to use the serious/detailed because even though I joke about my life often I didn’t think that it would fit into my memoir.

In my memoir, I talk about my struggles with relating to African American culture and enduring bullying due to the way I carried myself. The disconnect I felt in middle with African American culture because most of the black kids seen me as “whitewashed” and me trying to fit in.

Written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953, “Fahrenheit 451” tells the story of Guy Montag, a fireman whose job is to collect and burn books in a society where any feelings of discomfort from existential crises to mourning loved ones have been outlawed and the priority is happiness by any means necessary.

From a little bit of Ray Bradbury backstory to what we would change about the book, this loose, rambling podcast offers a chill conclusion to our reading and analysis of “Fahrenheit 451”: one of history’s greatest dystopian novels.

Brought to you by the Fire 451 Squad: Zoe Kwas, Tayah Brunson, Isabella Torres, Hawa Diakite, and Cameryn Roach

In the first episode of Tiger Talk, we discussed the literal and figurative meaning of the prominent theme of lightness vs darkness present in the novel, alongside other narrative symbols that we’ve encountered throughout reading.

In the second episode of Tiger Talk, we explored the novel through the view of the Marxist lens, analyzing the novel’s discussions around class and wealth. The book’s central metaphor of “The Rooster Coop” alongside the debate between decisions between morally right or not fuel the main topics of this week’s episode.

In this final episode of the series, we gave our final last thoughts on the book and explained what made us choose this book in the first place. We also dove into the intention of the author Aravind Adiga and discussed about his motivation of why he chose the way he wrote those things. It is a heartfelt goodbye as we close out the series, and we thank listeners for watching all of our episodes with an keen interest. We will be back!

Tune in to our dynamic group taking down the White Tiger one final time, with renowned English students Peter Keo, Michal Czapla, Indiya Johnson, Miranda Sosa and Jacob Prunes serving as the hosts.

NOTE: This episode is audio-only due to 3 out of our 5 members cameras not functioning during the recording of this podcast.

In our very last podcast, we take a look at what was Bram Stoker’s intentions when writing Dracula, and could this very book be base on real life events and some parts of the book do have some factual elements to it? Make sure to listen to our podcast as we dive into the mind of Mr. Stoker!

Text Evidence:

“Besides, who would want to marry her? The girl knows nothing about anything…” p.163

“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spend mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly 30 years.” p.198

This podcast was the last podcast of the three episode Long Road Podcast. In this episode we discussed many things. First and foremost we talked about the author’s intent with the writing style that he used. We also talked about different motives/reasons that the author had to write a book like this. We also talked about themes that popped up in the book and what they meant to us. There was also conversation about the ending as some of us felt like it was rushed and slightly unpleasant.

Pages Referenced Pg. 209 This gives us a glimpse of that luck that Chris mentions in the podcasts. The father and the son were on the path to starvation but yet again they find resources that they desperately need in a post apocalyptic world.

Pg. 213 This page shows the father having falsely placed hope and that relates to our question about the man’s faith in God and the boy’s faith as well. We concluded from this that they have indirect faith in God. The man for sure the boy moreless.

Pg. 255 While exploring the beach area for more resources someone steals the man and boy’s cart and they later find him and the man takes it back leaving the man for dead. That was an important point because we got to see how people react to situations like this in a post apocalyptic world.

Authors: Lucas Capitolo, Fionn Hyland, Michaela Berger

Summary: In the final episode of our podcast, we discuss author Tommy Orange’s intentions with writing “There There.” We look at the events at the end of the book and tie that into the real-world issues and why Orange may have written what he did. We hope you have enjoyed listening to our podcast the past few weeks!

By: Malcolm, Izzy, Aedan, Stella

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In our third and final podcast we discuss the ending of Fahrenheit 451, and our takeaways from this read. After spending some time discussing the ending we open up a larger conversation about what could have been and our experiences reading The Classics. With comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s THT, marvel comics, and Hayao Miyazaki, we discuss the bulk of Bradbury’s weaknesses as a writer and the uniqueness of this book.

This is the link to the podcast, just as a vague (so no spoilers for people who actually want to listen to it) summary of what we talked about we covered what happened previously and then Celie’s relationships between people and how some of them grew as a character and some of them where just a good character and a good person to Celie bond with these characters and who we’d recommend those book to

By: Gia Torres, Zoe Zisser, Ida McGrath, Andrew Bowers, Noor Kreidie

In the final Podcast we introduce the topic of the way the author is writing within the book. His ideas he wanted the reader to pick up on and what to look at while reading from our perspectives. We allow ourselves to talk about how we felt the author portrayed his own life within the text and even the message he was trying to give the readers with the historic ideas and futuristic path he was going through as he was writing. We hope you all enjoy.

• The Thought Police

Jasir Chavis, Jueni Austin, Lyss Williams, Phoenix Satterfield

The third and final episode of our podcast. We examine some reasons why the author of The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, actually wrote the book. A very interesting conversation indeed. She wanted to offer readers stories about blacks, women, and other marginalized characters that hadn’t been told before. This desire seems to have been with Morrison since she was a student at Howard.