Amanda Hall

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@state2151 the amount of food in the story had me #luawl

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

Babette using her French lottery money for a feast feels like the right decision to me #luawl

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@state2151 and he sleeps amongst the cockroaches #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

Balram describing the cars in the city as eggs even connects to the symbolism of the rooster coop.

Especially, Balram envisioning himself both inside and outside of the egg in Delhi watching the poor rot on the sidewalk #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@KatherineRB19 I always tell people its better to laugh about it than cry about it! Humor is a biggggg coping mechanism #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

"The key to paradise was for young people. Thousands of young kids promised a better life" (102).

this line reminded me of William Blake's works from 302. the commonality for children's lives to be disregarded & in return promised rewards in heaven for their "sacrifice" #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@egrundi123 saying goodbye to your parents freshman year for real #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

"We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed" (37).

while Marj was a pretty politically involved child, she still had the childlike haze that sees everyone as equals before knowledge of difference and prejudice corrupts the mind #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@little_red_hen3 yet Gogol craved such American food as a child. I would take a plate from Ashima any day #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

“A day they never celebrated when his father was alive, they stand together…drape a garland of rose petals…anoint their father’s forehead” (202).

the lack of something/someone can suddenly give new purpose to celebrate a day that was once unimportant, disregarded #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

A scene that really sticks with me, the images of the entrance to the crematorium. Sadly clever how the Nazi's turned something refreshing, the thought of a shower and an inherent human desire to be clean, and turned it into dehumanizing demise #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@lilylouwrites versus half a box of Special K and wire from the streets #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

special K was always my favorite cereal as a kid so the line, "Then just save the damn special K in case Hitler ever comes back!" (238) really had me #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@state2151 I was captivated by this scene as well. I thought of the power Vladek wished to hold over his memory, choosing a path of selective memory through the burning of Anja's memories. If he doesn't have to relive such horrors through reading, he takes the power away from them #luawl

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

when the chapter ended with Caravaggio cutting the English patient's hearing aid and touching Hana's shoulder #luawl

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@KatherineRB19 what I thought of when the light hit him #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@state2151 the unearthing of the plane from the sand, and the unearthing of Katherine's body when he lays her to rest. things that are revealed under the surface within the novel could provide a great start for some research 👀#LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

I was curious how “The English Patient” would really fit into a postcolonial novel in my opinion until I read the line…

”But you do not find adultery in the minutes of the Geographical Society. Our room never appears in the detailed report” (145) #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

@KatherineRB19 and the moths on their honeymoon fly into the flame 👀 just the beginning of their fiery, destructive marriage #LUAWL

[Amanda Hall @amandaghall]

the biblical names and allusions in Wide Sargasso Sea made me think about the Christianization of imperialists who turned the natives' religion into evil all while glorifying their own #LUAWL