Diversity in literature quite often focuses on skin deep qualities such as ethnicity and race, but it is much broader than that, including sexuality, gender, disability, political persuasion, and religion. Diverse literature exposes the reader to experiences that are not their own, and hopefully, broadens their understanding and knowledge of those experiences. *(CL) means that... Continue Reading →
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations brings to mind a Monty Python sketch about Australian table wines. Describing a bottle of Perth Pink they say: ‘This is a bottle with a message in it, and the message is “beware”. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.’ I agonized for a... Continue Reading →
Jane Eyre
When I was in grade ten, we were given the choice of reading either Far from the Madding crowd, Great Expectations, or Jane Eyre as an English novel. At the time, I went with Hardy, with the intention of reading the others at a later date. Well, recently, over twenty-five years later, I finally realized... Continue Reading →
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