Final Project Listicle

In this post I will be listing key moments in comic, Ms. Marvel by Wilson Alphona, on how Kamala Khan struggles to see her real identity through her gain of powers, her Muslim family, and her friend’s thoughts through the whole story. #1 are they really friends? My first key moment within Ms. Marvel, is towards Kamal Khan’s …

Reading Response #4

Both science fiction and fantasy have very unique characteristics to them. Some are similar while others are different. One of the main characteristics I myself think they share is the charcteristic to show and have the audience be aware of people’s identities. Throughout many of the novels I have dwelled within this semester, science and …

Reading Response #3

Steampunk is something that has always created the impossible within the stories. The scientific mechanics and the magical elements it inhibits is something very challenging to replicate or impossible to create due to the complexity and the impossible materials some of these items are made from. However, through this new outlook on technology, these mechanics, …

Personal Response #3

In the familiar land of Pokémon, every start, to every amazing journey, starts with the professor asking the player if they are a boy or girl. Now I understand the original concept this game was trying to give. Instead of just characterizing the person to be just one selected character, this game started something more …

Personal Response #2

Talking about identity through people as well as androids, cyborgs, and other relatable beings, had me thinking a lot on the movie “Rogue One” and their interpretations of the Robot K-2S0. When it comes to identity and humanization within characters, of a story,  they usually resemble a human like qualities and at least one function …

Reading Response #2

In “Patomime” by Laura Lam, the main character Gene, is shown to have to make a big choice in their life. Gene, being born intersex, who holds a lot of choices and decisions in their life on how they want to progress further in their future. Should Gene, be Gene? Should Gene be a noble …

Reading Response #1

Within the book “Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin, both the characters, Genly and Estravegan, hold a growing, and adapting, relationship between one another throughout the story. Through this growing relationship we as readers can discover the understanding and the pursue they make in order to accept one another while also immobilizing …

Personal Response

For books in labeled for age groups around 9 to 10, there are not many that deal with LGTBQ communities to help inform and spread the information out to different societies and communities. One of our biggest problems with integrating and understing the LGBTQ community, which we have discussed in class, is the fact that …

Self and Other Listicle

This post will be on key moments about the characters in the first book “Binti”, by Nnedi Okorafor, who encounter difference, or more so change, in both a mental and physical aspect of their life throughout the novel. #1 Bye Home The first Key moment within “Binti” would have to be the first descion the …