For my close reading I am thinking about using Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina . I found the reading compelling and fascinating. I realized that you can achieve anything if you set your mind to it. And I found that Fatomina sacrifice a lot to get what she wanted and that was love. She also wanted to… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: Close-reading.

York’s travels seem to change him. He seems to grow during his travels and learn from his mistake along his journey . Sometime you have to make mistake to learn and develop personal growth . Throughout his journey he travels different places in Paris experienccing different culture and customs. He also experience love and the… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: A Sentimental Journey.

Reading a Sentimental Journey evoke a lot of memories in me as a traveler myself. I love history and love to read and visit places I read about. I remember I read about the leaning tower of Pisa in Paris and years later I was standing beside it taking pictures. The emotion that came over… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: A Sentimental Journey.

As Olaudah Equiano traveled freedom was always on his mind. I think along the journey he made the best of it knowing he would eventually get his freedom. “We arrived safe and in good time at Philadelphia , and I sold my goods there chiefly to the Quakers.” pg 129. It must be frustrated for… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Equiano 2.

Olaudah was sold to the other slave master James Doran he and witness more evil of slaver. But again he was lucky and was sold to Robert king an humane slave master. Olaudah seems to be contended with his new owner. he noted that he was so useful to his master that he words would… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah never gave up.

Olaudah traveled all over visiting different states and countries but I notice that he was being bought and sold throughout his life. With his slaves’s master Pascal , Olaudah seems to grew fund of him and even wanted to learn the English culture. At first Olaudah was scared of the European and the treatment of… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd: Olaudah Equiano’s travels.

Reading Olaudah Equiano story was interesting and fascinating . You get a first hand knowledge of the life of a slave because he was telling his own story. it seems that Olaudah didn’t realized the depth and evilness that slavery entails. Olaudah was kidnapped at the age of eleven and sold into slavery. In the… Continue reading Jacqueline Floyd:Olaudah Equiano early days.

I just start reading Gulliver’s Travels and I found it interesting. I heard about the book but never knew what the story was about so reading it was fun. Johnathan Swift storytelling satirist , more like a fairytale in some aspect. I think he also write his story depicting what was going on in the… Continue reading Jacqueline Gulliver’s Travels.

Jacqueline Floyd / FANTOMINA The story of Fantomina read like a romance novel but one that is full of conflict and desperation. Fantomina was in love with Beauplaisir and would disguised herself to get close to him. I think in those days woman were treated as second class citizen and man had the upper hand.… Continue reading Untitled