Annotated Bibliography Kaur, Rupi. Milk and Honey. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2015. Print Section 1: Summary & “Reading For” Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry by Rupi Kaur that is split into four different sections, each dealing with a different aspect of her life, femininity, sexuality, and her relationship with pain on [...]
Driver’s Ed Annotated Bibliography
Jesse Tafel Driver’s Ed, Caroline B. Cooney, Published January 1st 1996 by Laurel Leaf For this semester of How Writer’s Read I had chosen the young adult novel Driver’s Ed. I was suggested to read this book about a year ago by my younger brother who had just finished high school. He is well aware [...]
Milk & Honey Blog 4
Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur is a poem book mostly dealing with love, loss, pain, strength, self love and female empowerment. I believe the audience this book was targeted towards was largely female which is why it was difficult to be a submissive reader while reading the poems. I recently had the same difficultly [...]
Milk and Honey Blog 3
In reading Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, I have come to find that intertextual codes manifest themselves differently in a collection of poetry as opposed to more story-driven works of narrative fiction. That is, the dynamics that allow a writer to employ these intertextual codes in a typical work of fiction are altered when approaching [...]
Milk and Honey- Blog 2
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur is a collection of poetry that explores different types of pain and how they manifest within people. These poems challenge traditional poetry (for example rhyme schemes, meter, et cetera) and take on the form of prose or free-verse poetry. This free-verse form makes the poems a bit more accessible. Often, readers will [...]
Milk and Honey- Blog 1
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry by Rupi Kaur that is split into four different sections, each dealing with a different aspect of her life, femininity, sexuality, and her relationship with pain on varying levels. I went into this book mostly blind since I am typically a reader that is easily swayed by [...]
Driver’s Ed Blog 4
In Caroline Cooney’s young adult novel Driver’s Ed, Cooney plays with the relationship between writer, narrator and audience. As discussed in blog 2, the genre of young adult fiction opens itself to interesting opportunities for the experienced reader. While works of adult fiction play with multiple levels of complexity in both narrative and subtext, young [...]
Driver’s Ed Blog #3
Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney explores abstract contrasts like life versus death, love versus disappointment, normalcy versus unfamiliarity, childhood versus adulthood. But one recurring opposition that seems to be the most prevalent is freedom vs responsibility. In fact, it is a controlling value-- as discussed in blog one. In the book, Remy, Morgan, and their [...]
Driver’s Ed- Blog 2
Source Driver’s Ed is a young adult work of speculative fiction written by Caroline B. Cooney and follows the story of several students in a driver's education class. The spotlight mostly focuses on Remy Marland and Morgan Campbell, two students that have to come to terms with living the choice they made to help someone steal a [...]
Driver’s Ed Blog #1
Driver's Ed is the story of high school student, Remy Marland, who wants nothing else but to receive her driver's license. Remy is yearning for that piece of laminated paper because it is a symbol of freedom as a young adult. Remy wanting her driver's license is really her wanting freedom from the child life. [...]
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