Rayann Pavichevich

It's Lit. American Lit.

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A WHOLE MOOD

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I forgot to upload the edited version of my poem, so here it is

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Pudd’nhead feat. Joyce.

EnJOYCE this photo. (Sorry, bad joke)

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My uncle brought home 2 puppies yesterday. I better watch what I say before I’m dubbed the Pudd’nhead of the village.

PS: their names are Joyce and Hopper 🥰

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Charlie to Duncan and Lorraine in “Babylon Revisited”

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*places book on ground*

No, thank you.

The first paragraph of “Passing” by Nella Larsen reminds me of the blackmailing issue I’ve had for 3 solid years 😬

YIKES.

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Reasons why I hope we read “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin in my women’s Lit class next semester:

• it’s a fantastic read

• I’m going to reread it anyway, so it’d be cool if I could be graded while I do so (also, I’ll catch so many things I missed the first time)

• it sparked an invigorating class discussion

• I felt truly connected to my classmates for the first time this semester when we discussed this book

• (selfish, but...) I missed the class that discussed the part where Edna takes off her wedding ring and slips it back on. I WANTED TO DISCUSS THAT SO BAD.

• there’s so much to unpack in that book, we’ll never run out of things to talk about

That’s all, carry on

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The only thing that came to my mind while reading chapter 30 of “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

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🐸 ☕️

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The fact that some women are jealous of Edna for her subpar husband because theirs are somehow WORSE: yikes.

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3 chapters into “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin and I cannot express how badly I want Mrs. Pontellier to leave her awful husband.

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The way Van in “Herland” refers to Ellador as “my Ellador” is so wholesome and heartwarming 🥰

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Motherhood in Herland

Motherhood in Herland absolutely dominated everything else. To its residents, nothing was more important than the children; although when it first began— all the males had died off and suddenly a woman fell pregnant. It was a miracle! Then, that same miracle happened 4 more times to the same woman, so she had 5 children miraculously and they were all female. It turned out that only those 5 girls would fall pregnant, all at the age of 25, all giving birth 5 times— then the cycle repeats until suddenly there’s a ton of women all stemming from one legendary female.

The mothers are treated like goddesses because that’s what they were.

Mic drop

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SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

“As I learned more and more to appreciate what these women had accomplished, the less proud I was of what we, with all our manhood, had done.”

— Herland, page 86

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Me, when reading in “Herland” that the men were, “lifted like children, straddling helpless children” by the women (page 53)

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You bring the book, I’ll bring the feminism

As I’m reading about “Woman Land”— I’m imagining what life would be like if I had lived in a land of only Women. It’s crazy to imagine the things I could do freely, like walk around at night and wear whatever I want without being objectified. Wild.

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Me to myself after not reading Roman numerals correctly, resulting in reading all the wrong chapters.