Bobby's Big Bad Blog

The death of Ashoke was very surprising to me, but even more surprising was the way that Gogol responded to it. Ashoke's death begins wi...

The Namesake has changed greatly from chapter one to where I am now, at the end of chapter six. Nikhil has changed greatly as a character a...

Throughout the first chapters of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri , Ashima is consistently homesick. She does not just long for her home itself...

Notes From Underground has led me to contemplate the difference between the importance of consciousness and rationality. The underground ma...

Chimamanda Adichie, Nigerian author and speaker, describes how a stereotype can, “make one story become the only story” (Chimamanda Ngozi A...

Things Fall Apart has helped me learn some interesting characteristics of Ibo society, such as how their economy works, what kinds of human ...

Gian Giudice, a theoretical physicist, delivered a very interesting talk about the seemingly precarious situation that our entire universe i...