Katrina Liu

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[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@Nanditaa_K I agree, his speech may be somewhat depressing but he is helping students prepare for the real world and teaching them how to think #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

I don't think so because humans are inherently selfish and it is extremely difficult for us to think this way 100% of the time

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

Wallace talks about being truly free within your own mind. The freedom from "attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them." Do you think that you are able to truly achieve this freedom? #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@EshaSinha4 I think that this has to do with the phrase "money cannot buy happiness". It feels as if it's fake or artificial if you have to buy something to make you happy, and that's dangerous because people will eventually stop putting in the effort to find true happiness #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

Aubade is a French word meaning dawn serenade. Why would Larkin title his poem this if it is about death? #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@EshaSinha4 Additionally, I think that Vonnegut forcing the soldiers to play says a lot too about the drafts that occurred before it was written. How people unwillingly risked their lives for someone that did not have their needs in their mind #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@krempaskym I agree, I also think it shows how war causes people to become immoral and lose themselves in battle. In order to survive, you must think of yourself first #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@litwithlayton I think that they dress this way to lure people in. They think that if these pretty women work here and are doing this job that it cannot be that bad. If people like the three witches from Macbeth worked there people would not be inclined to go #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@LKoncsol I think it had to do with them believing what was the most 'ethical'. Preventing pregnancy through birth control may have been seen as blocking something natural. However, if people stop the act that makes them pregnant, it would be seen as a more 'pure' way to do it #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@sydnopsis I think she may have been broad trying to protect Newt by not saying things that are good about Henry or maybe she cannot find many things at all because of her love for Newt. However, she probably knows more about him than she shows #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@EshaSinha4 I think that it may symbolize their familiarity with one another. It seems like they have walked down this path before. He knows the steps they must take to make this relationship work #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

What is the government's definition of normal? Who is the blueprint for an average intelligence or beauty? Would it not be more beneficial to bring up the standards instead of lowering it? Almost everything is subjective so who is deciding this and why do they get to? #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

I think it's odd that Vonnegut chose to make Harrison seem violent when he first appears to be a new mind that could overthrow the 'communist' government #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@yashage_lit I agree, especially because her and Jack's relationship affected a lot of her decisions throughout the book. Even though he was absent for a lot of the time, he played a such a large role in her life, but we only see him through Fiona's POV #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@litwithlayton All forms of love are dangerous and should be kept out of one's professional life. However, love can also be beautiful if you are able to communicate effectively with the ones you love. #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@sarahliucifer @yashage_lit I do agree that she doesn't actually like Adam, but she says that it was "more than a mother would give her grown-up son", and even if it may have been Adam who initiated the kiss, she should have enough sense and realization to stop it immediately #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

My face when Adam turned his face and Fiona didn't immediately back away #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@yashage_lit I think she may have written more drafts because she is able to assess the consequences and tone of her letters. She seems more cautious while Adam does not seem to fully think about real consequences hence the somewhat romantic-sounding letters #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

Why was Fiona struggling to write/send her letters to Adam? Her notes took over an hour to write and she wrote 4 drafts. What did she want to say that would damper his mood and what do you think she wrote in the other 3 letters? #laylit20

[Katrina Liu @katrinaliuser]

@litwithlayton I think there may be a connection between Fiona teaching Adam how to play the violin and Adam teaching Fiona about religion and how to look at life through a different lens #laylit20