A collection from Fall 2018

About

Welcome to my website! My name is Maria Vazquez, I’m a current student at Davidson College. I enjoy writing and sharing my thoughts with the world.

I can be contacted at mavazquezmartinez@davidson.edu

Coping with stress through drawing and dissociation

Karen Reyes from My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris has no shortage of imagination, she arguably has an overactive imagination. An overactive imagination that results from a series of misfortunes in her life. On the page where Karen’s mom and brother sit down to tell her about her mother’s fight with cancer, Karen […]

The significance of a name in forming an identity

In the novel Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones, the main character has yet to reveal his name. He introduces everyone in his life by name, but never his own. Although this could be a side effect of the story being told through his point of view, which most people don’t tend to view themselves in […]

The parallels between sweepers and real soldiers in Zone One

“Some of them were hard at work crafting the new language, and they came up with more than a few winners; the enemy they faced would not succumb to psychological warfare, but that didn’t mean that the principles needed to remain unutilized.” (Whitehead 99). In this sentence, the narrator states that even though the government’s […]

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