Ryouko Iwamoto
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As an ecologist and an avid scholar of literature and history, I love to study the connections that flow between our histories and the stories we craft, and to find the ways in which our stories connect us all. As a strong supporter of equitable learning, I look forward to sharing knowledge with my peers and the younger generations of students and learners.
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Answered a Question in The Negro Mother
In Langston Hughes's "The Negro Mother," the speaker is an enslaved Black woman who represents the suffering of hundreds of years of plantation slavery in the US South. She carries within her soul... -
Answered a Question in Song of Myself
Rather than avoid the complexities and nuances of being human and humanity as a whole, the speaker confronts inevitable, interconnected contradictions and embraces "multitudes" of expression.... -
Answered a Question in Night
In Night, Elie Wiesel details his horrific experience being persecuted, as a Jewish person, by the Nazis and suffering horribly at the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. While... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
In writing this letter to Guy Montag, consider, in terms of respect, that Montag does actively choose to confront the horrors of his job as one who burns books. Montag could have continued to... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Six Records of a Floating Life is poet Shen Fu's autobiographical telling of his life during the Great Qing Dynasty in eighteenth-century China. The memoir is divided into six records, four of... -
Answered a Question in The Turn of the Screw
When Henry James began writing The Turn of the Screw, he was a quintessential struggling artist. The author's attempt at being a playwright failed terribly with the culmination, in 1895, of his... -
Answered a Question in William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth is a classic English Romanticism poet who explores the relationship between humans and nature and the complexity of the human experience often as it relates to nature. As an... -
Answered a Question in Whoso List to Hunt
In "Whoso List to Hunt," the narrator speaks to the futility of courtly love. In the poem, the narrator writes of hunting a female deer who is always out of reach and, ultimately, is already... -
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
Virgilio "Lío" Morales is introduced by Dedé's narration in chapter 5 of In The Time of the Butterflies. In this recollection,he meets Dedé and Minerva Mirabal at their father's shop. By Lío's... -
Answered a Question in Circe
While Circe is the daughter of the powerful sun god Helios, she grows up suffering from being cast aside, scorned, and taunted by the other gods (including her cruel nymph mother, Perse) for her... -
Answered a Question in History
The era of Reconstruction marked a time of radical attempts by abolitionists, left-wing politicians, and activists to advance Black rights and power throughout the South that were ultimately... -
Answered a Question in Klara and the Sun
Initially, as Klara awaits being purchased at a department store, she observes human interaction with some confusion and distance between human emotions and her own. For instance, at the beginning... -
Answered a Question in The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet provides much in the way of bold, clashing, diasporic, surreal storytelling. Rushdie's use of Indian and European mythology, alternate realities,... -
Answered a Question in Unworthy Republic
In Unworthy Republic, Claudio Saunt examines and describes the domestic and international forces that contributed to the horrific, genocidal mass displacement of Indigenous peoples in the 1830s... -
Answered a Question in History
The Somerset v. Stewart ruling did not end slavery in England, but the case did inspire resistance from enslaved people in England and the United States colonies, and it further chipped away at the... -
Answered a Question in All the Years of Her Life
The behaviors and reflections of Alfred, the complexity of human behavior in general, and possible surrounding socioeconomic factors in "All the Years of Her Life" could lead a reader to reasonably... -
Answered a Question in Elizabeth Gaskell
In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Our Society at Cranford," the narrator provides the reader with a detailed description of Captain Brown's character and the impact he has upon the society of Cranford.... -
Answered a Question in Swimming Lessons
In exploring the theme of alienation in Rohinton Mistry's "Swimming Lessons," one could analyze, for example, how Kersi Boyce regularly receives bits of information about his fellow tenants through... -
Answered a Question in The Death of Artemio Cruz
In Carlos Fuentes's novel The Death of Artemio Cruz, Regina is a young indigenous woman who is living in a small village in Mexico at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Although Artemio and Regina...