Monday, April 17, 2017

Starting to wrap up the semester...

17 April 2017: "It just felt so...empty." --a student in my ENGL 204 class, reflecting on "Sexy," by Jhumpa Lahiri and how she felt at the end of the piece.

This quotation, a kind of echo of this one from last week, stood out to me after another attempt at trying to teach this story. It's a story I love, but it is really hard to talk about with students because it is so subtle and small (not in a bad way) even as it embraces the world in its symbolic gestures. The next time I teach it, I am going to try to remember what this student said--so simple and true--and see if we can build off that emptiness with which the story leaves u.

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