Good Omens Annotated Bibliography

by Matt Berrian Introduction Reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman was a slog. This was unfortunate, because I not only selected this book myself but I also had a mountain of work ahead that relied on me actually finishing it. I honestly wished that I had the hindsight to choose a different

Sitting in the Seat: How Misty Griffin’s Identity Influences Her “Tears of the Silenced” Memoir – Matt Berrian

Marketed by Misty Griffin as a survivor’s tale — a memoir recounting the horrific abuses that she has faced at the hands of members within her Amish community — Griffin already possesses a level of sympathetic credibility that will maintain the integrity of her memoir. As James Phelan describes in his “Living to Tell About

But How Does That Make You Feel?

How Ethos and Moral Values are expressed in Good Omens (book 3, blog #1) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is a difficult book to pin down. The novel follows an angel (Aziraphale) and a demon (Crowley) who together have decided to do their best to prevent the Apocalypse, because they’ve both grown

Us vs. Them

How Form Creates Competition in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as Defined by Burke and Contrasting Values. By, Matt Berrian Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle stars the three surviving members of the Blackwood family–Merry Katherine, Constance, and their Uncle Julius–and pits them against the ire and scandal caused by

MAUS Blog Post #3: Intertextual Codes

When reading Art Spiegelman’s Maus, it’s difficult not to draw connections between the depictions of the characters as anthropomorphized animals and the roles that these animals tend to play in nature. The most noticeable of these connections is the dichotomy created between Jews (mice) and Nazis (cats). The predator-prey relationship between cats and mice immediately