Final Passage Identification

Never Let Me Go

• Kazuo Ishiguro

• 2005

• Novel - a bunch of cloned children at a big fancy school - what it is to be human, ostracized, abuse under societal systems, etc.

The Beneficiary

• Bruce Robbins

• 2017

• Essay - who are the people that end up benefitting in society under the systems put in place, what the person benefitting gains from the suffering of others

Friendship

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 19th Century

• Essay - friendship cannot be made or forced, true friends require honesty and tenderness, and the occasional stepping back from each other to let the other shine

Friendship Among Women

• A.E. Ives

• 19th-20th Century

• Essay - the importance of friendship between women, discusses very famous friendships between women and the importance of such, often can find very deep and open devotion between women

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• Harriet Jacobs

• 19th Century

• Essay - discussing the importance of connections while she was a runaway slave, her friendship with Mrs. Bruce who’s baby she nursed, as well as her closeness with her brother who she hadn’t seen in ages

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

• Audre Lorde

• 20th Century

• Essay - discussing the importance of friendship in high school; the interracial friendships she built, rebellious girls who called themselves “The Branded” and connected through art such as poetry

On Humanity in Dark Times: Thoughts About Lessing

• Hannah Arendt

• ???

• Essay - discusses the friendships that arise in dark times, using WWII as an example; talks about how people make friends but often with those of similar mind so there is less arguing between them

Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading

• Elaine Scarry

• 2014

• Essay - the power of literature to cause less violence in the world; 3 important factors of empathy, dispute, and beauty