This is how I would analyze how Hurston's "Sweat" is a tribute to ordinary African Americans and a departure from some of the ideal of the Harlem Renaissance.
What Lydon is Thinking, Reading
In "The River Nemunas," Anthony Doerr captures what it means to be numb and alone in the world not in the quality of his words, but in their quantity.
Reading
Sometimes a sentence leads you to a dead end. You are confused, and that's ok. This time you can blame the sentence.
What Lydon is Thinking
I've had a few students ask me about semicolons in the past week. I am sure they are not alone in wondering how to use them, and why we use them the way we do.
