SPAN 312

  Hi guys! I hope you guys are all having a good start to your week so far. This week's reading felt very emotional and dealt with some serious topics that are also very relevant today in Canada. I think it is really important to recognize the struggles discussed in I, Rigoberta Menchú, as not everyone has the same or similar experiences to those of the family within the book. I think that this book put a lot of things in perspective for me and how important it is to recognize and appreciate stories of those from different cultures, history’s, backgrounds from us as it can make us more aware of societal injustices that we see in our everyday lives. Although the book deals with widely important topics about social injustice, land and people exploitation, and a clear class hierarchy, the book is written in a way that is easy to understand. I feel like most of the time with books that are so dense in themes and topics I typically have a really hard time understanding and grasping the ...

  Hi everyone! I hope everyone is surviving their midterms! I have to say I rather enjoyed this book. I am a big believer in ghosts, spirits, and honestly anything supernatural. That being said, I haven't read or watched many interpretations of ghosts like this. The way Rulfo has depicted the ghosts or spirits in this novel makes them feel very real and almost visible to those who want to see them. At first I was kinda lost when the mule driver was talking about how his father was dead, but he still continued on the journey to find him in the town. Then as it went on I got the idea that the majority of characters in this novel were ghosts or were on the brink of becoming them.  I really enjoyed the part where Dyada was talking about how his mother had just informed her he was coming. Dyada says, “that is the reason her voice was so weak, as if it had to travel a long way in order to reach me. Yes, now I understand”. I thought that this idea of communication between the dead ...

  Hi everyone! I was reading some of the blogs before I started to write mine and noticed that a lot of people already had an idea or knew about Jorge Luis Borges. I had never heard about him before nor was I familiar with any of his other works. I decided to do a little research on him after reading the novel for this week, since I really struggled with trying to understand most of it. The website I was reading talked about how the majority of his work played with the themes and concepts of the intersection between dreams and reality. I think once I understood this I was able to understand a little bit more of what some of the stories were about. The first story in Labyrinths “ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, took me a while to understand that he was talking about fictional worlds that he had created.  The lecture was talking about the intersectionality of “play” in Borges works. I think that this is very evident in this story. When describing Tlön and its values on philosoph...