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About Lily Cooper

My name is Lily Cooper and I am a sophomore at Grand Canyon University. I am studying English with an Emphasis in Professional Writing . I aspire to be a writer and an editor for a publishing company someday. I have always been a writer and I firmly believe that we all have a story inside of us. Every piece of writing we put out there contains a story of ourselves.

Stories are our foundations. From our childhood, our parents have told us them, read us them, and maybe even have written us them. As we grow older we begin to take the place of our parents and pass the stories down from generation to generation. The more you tell a story, the better at writing and communicating you become. To be able to write an intriguing and good story, you have to read them.

This blog was created for my ENG-355 Multicultural Literature class. The foundation of this class is exploring, analyzing, and discussing literature from all different parts of the world through history. We have read different types of writings such as short stories, poems, etc. After reading we discussed the different themes of the writings, and compared how the themes relate to our society today. the blog posts were designed to take what we have read and translate it into a classroom environment and answer the questions: What can a high school student learn from the texts? How could a teacher teach the readings?

The definition of Global, as it related to literature is this: Relating to the whole world; worldwide.

Literature can be relatable to anyone who reads it, no matter where or when. The ideas in the stories are there and can be taken from certain time periods and put into our daily lives today. Just because a story was written in another time period or country doesn't limit the audience or the meaning of the story. While we may not relate to the characters we read 100% of the time, we can relate to the overall message of the story. Therefore blurring the lines of national boundaries.

The 20th Century literature portrays struggles with cultural identity. Each text focused on different characters from different areas of the globe. The characters would seek for answers about themselves and who they want to be, or are trying to be. We go from a woman losing her world in the Holocaust to a man losing his only coat. We lose ourselves in the process of hard times and in doing so our culture, and sometimes we don't even survive. While not every story has a happy ending, we can all appreciate the characters and reflect on their doings so we do not walk on their same path.

I thank everyone for visiting and reading the posts. Together, we can all learn how to teach, relate to the texts, and focus on the literature that allows us all to come together under one common theme.

Lots of love!

Lily



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