Amalie Ascanius
Stories (2/0)
A Vampire Walks into a Gas Station
The words on the faded white sign still shone clear in my mind as I blew out a final puff of nicotine-laced smoke, grinding out the remains of my cigarette beneath the heel of my boot. I don’t remember when I started going to these meetings, but they had become my only form of socialization since the whole wedding fiasco.
By Amalie Ascanius3 years ago in Fiction
Colonialism in Literature
It is a widely held belief that colonialism had a hugely negative effect on the cultures taken over and altered by colonizers, and this is clearly evident in all- if not most- of Africa and some of Asia. This destruction of culture and lives by way of colonization is most readily depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, though their perspectives of the same major events differs greatly. Heart of Darkness is from the perspective of Marlow, a man sent to the Congo from Europe, and his journey down the Congo River, while Things Fall Apart is from the perspective of a man named Okonkwo, a native of Africa and a tribe known as the Igbo. The contrast between these two perspectives gives the reader a fuller understanding of the different effects colonialism had on both societies.
By Amalie Ascanius3 years ago in Education
