On August 1, I will begin what I plan to make an annual tradition. I’ll begin a deep dive into Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. Tuck Everlasting is a Celebration of Time–Time as it relates to the Seasons and the Seasons of Life–and TIme as it relates to the clock. Most people are deeply aware of…
Tag: Looking at Lit Book Club
The Secret Garden is the First Novel for Jacki Kellum’s Free Online Book Club – Beginning for the Family in June
The Secret Garden is the first novel we’ll read together in the Free 2024 Looking at Lit Book Club. Each day, I’ll share a chapter from the Free text of The Secret Garden, which is available at Project Gutenberg. If you want to buy the book, I suggest the beautiful edition of the book illustrated…
The Secret Garden Chapter 1
THE SECRET GARDEN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Copyright, 1911, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Copyright, 1910, 1911, by The Phillips Publishing Co. CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too….
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,”…
Symbols in Literature – Symbolism
What Is A Symbol in Literature? In literature, a symbol occurs when one word in writing suggests an understanding of something different. Although it is not a powerful symbol, a heart might symbolize love–in terms of visual symbolism. Symbols are important in literature. The night or darkness can be a symbol in literature. Daytime or…