Literature

Reading Reflection Paper Instructions For each Reading Reflection Paper you will choose from the list of work themes below and write a 2 page essay using one of the course themes (see the content outline on the syllabus) to interpret and explicate a piece of literature assigned in our course. Explicating means unfolding and interpreting with a careful, very close reading to show your understanding of the piece you chose. Over the course of the trimester, you will write four of these essays. Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits No one asks where I am from, I must be from the country of janitors, I have always mopped this floor. Honduras, you are a squatter's camp outside the city of their understanding. No one can speak my name, I host the fiesta of the bathroom, stirring the toilet like a punchbowl. The Spanish music of my name is lost when the guests complain about toilet paper. What they say must be true: I am smart but I have a bad attitude. No one knows that I quit tonight, maybe the mop will push on without me, sniffing along the floor like a crazy squid with stringy gray tentacles. They will call it Jorge. — Martín Espada