Jessica Lawson
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I'm a transplanted Midwesterner with degrees from Smith College, University of Iowa, and University of Colorado. I have been teaching since 2007. My passion is literature that pushes the boundaries of our expectations and challenges us to think in new ways about our books, our world, and ourselves.
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Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
After transforming unexpectedly and without explanation into a giant insect, much of Gregor Samsa’s activity early in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is reorienting himself to his new body and its... -
Answered a Question in Black Woman
If this question refers to "Black Woman" by Georgia Douglas Johnson (published 1922 during the Harlem Renaissance), the two stanzas of this short poem explore the speaker’s fears for an unnamed... -
Answered a Question in Kindred
In the final moments of the main narrative in Octavia Butler’s Kindred, the protagonist, Dana, kills her ancestor and adversary, Rufus. Throughout the novel, Dana is forcibly pulled back through... -
Answered a Question in Night-Sea Journey
“The Night-Sea Journey” by John Barth first appeared in Esquire (1966) and was later published in Barth’s short story collection Lost in the Funhouse (1968). The story is told from the perspective... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein creates moral tension between the two central characters: Victor Frankenstein, a young Genoese science student who has assembled and animated a creature using dead... -
Answered a Question in Their Eyes Were Watching God
While the timing is not precisely stated (because the novel describes seasons rather than months), clues throughout chapters 2–4 indicate that Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks lasted between one...