Reflective Flashcards
If I stay - gayle Forman
Love can make you immortal
If I stay - gayle Forman
Our lives are loved not just for ourselves but also for others
If I stay - gayle Forman
Letting go. People talk about it as if it’s the wastes thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one u till your hand is open.
If I stay - gayle Forman
Dying is easy. Living is hard
If I stay - gayle Forman
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you
If I stay - gayle Forman
I realize now that dying is easy, living is hard
LINK BETWEEN IF I STAY AND THE BOY
Changes
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
Let us begin - last line, shows that we can begin again
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
The shits rang out like an insult to the tranquility of the mountains, and her Body fell to the ground
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
Uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted
LINK BETWEEN THE BOY AND THE BELL JAR
War and inner war, identity
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
Because disloyalty never goes unpunished
The bell jar - Sylvia Plath
Stewing in (her) own sour air
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
It was Pierrot who had climbed out of bed that morning, but it was ouster who returned to it now before falling soundly asleep
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn’t descend again?
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
I saw avocado pear after avocado lead being stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise and photographed under brilliant lights
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
I am. I am. I am.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and very empty
LINK BETWEEN THE BELL JAR AND AMERICANAH
Cement in her soul
Americanah- Adichie
Why do you say Africa instead of the country you mean?
Americanah- Adichie
America had subdued her
Americanah- Adichie
Bananas were so big, do evenly yellow, she forgave them their tastelessness
Americanah- Adichie
They were conditioned to fill silences
Americanah- Adichie
She was not curvy or big bones; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true
Americanah- Adichie
The pleasure she took in being mistaken for mixed race - Kosi
Americanah- Adichie
Big men and big women, Obinze would later learn, did not talk to people, they instead talked at people
Americanah- Adichie
It was here, at a Lagos salon, that the different ranks of imperial femaleness were best understood
Americanah- Adichie
Girlish and pliant - for the general
Americanah- Adichie
With the accent emerged a new persona, apologetic and self-abasing
Americanah- Adichie
Ifemelu watched her mothers essence take flight - religion
Americanah- Adichie
Americanah. Through telling the story of Ifemulu, Adichie provides a powerful critique of western society
Americanah- Adichie
America doesn’t care - race, don’t say you’re Ghanaian - you’re black
Americanah- Adichie
Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it
