Ghanaian-American Gifty, a fifth-year neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford University, is the subject of Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Transcendent Kingdom.” Gifty does have a complex past because she was brought up as a Pentecostal Christian in Alabama and went through the struggles of her immigrant family. Her family’s traumas, such as her mother’s severe depression and her brother’s overdose addiction and death, had a significant impact on her life and choices. Gifty has been trying to comprehend the complex connection between spirituality, addiction, and mental health through the lens of her scientific background. Gifty, the protagonist, is a neuroscientist studying reward-seeking behavior in mice, investigating the biological roots of addiction and…

Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Transcendent Kingdom” follows Ghanaian-American Gifty, a fifth-year neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford University. With an emphasis on Gifty, a neuroscientist studying addiction and depression, the book examines the difficulties of faith and science in her spiritual upbringing along with her scientific endeavors. Gifty struggles with the issue of purpose in the midst of hardship. It looks at the conflict between spiritual beliefs and scientific understanding and concludes that both can provide a useful, if constrained, viewpoint on human experiences. The chosen scientific study that is relevant to the novel’s theme is Gifty’s study on mice’s reward-seeking behavior, which uses optogenetics to comprehend the brain underpinnings of addiction.…

Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Transcendent Kingdom” follows Ghanaian-American Gifty, a fifth-year neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford University. There is conflict between science and religion in the book as a result of Gifty’s upbringing in a religious environment and her scientific viewpoints and religion as she attempts to comprehend the intricacies of the human condition while navigating between these two seemingly incompatible worlds, which, from a scientific perspective, are suffering the most. Given that biology offers Gifty a framework for comprehending and even resolving the devastation caused by addiction and sadness, which investigates the scientific basis of these difficulties. Gifty has been studying and investigating the neurological pathways because her mother suffers…

Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Transcendent Kingdom” follows Ghanaian-American Gifty, a fifth-year neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford University. Given that she was raised as a Pentecostal Christian in Alabama and experienced the hardships of her immigrant family, Gifty does have a complicated past. Her life and decisions were greatly influenced by her family’s experiences, including her mother’s profound depression and her brother’s overdose addiction and death. Through the prism of her scientific training, Gifty has been attempting to understand the intricate relationship between faith, addiction, and mental health.  Gifty’s family background and upbringing is Gifty’s family is Ghanaian-American, and her parents came to the US before she was born. Her father came…

In the final scene of “Sonny’s Blues,” the jazz club reflects the themes of redemption and understanding in the story because it is evident early on in the narrative how Sonny is profoundly affected by the reality of racism, poverty, pain, and addiction, along with the fact that ultimately, music is providing him with comfort, understanding, and atonement. He struggles with the difficulties in his surroundings and the little opportunities that are open to him and discovers a way to express his anguish and annoyance through his music.  Although his addiction had a detrimental effect on him, it also served as a catalyst for his artistic expression and directing a potent and…

Toni Morrison’s argument in her short story “Recitatif” is that racial division is replaced by a more generalized depiction of how cruelty, discrimination, and dehumanization originate. I agree that the root of racial/ethnic division is related to dehumanization. First and foremost, dehumanization is the process of denying someone or a group of people their best human traits. The short story starts with two 8-year-old girls named Twyla and Roberta. Morrison does not identify the protagonists’ race, which forces us, the readers, to reflect on our own prejudices and preconceptions regarding race and how they may affect our thoughts and ideas. One example from the text is it states, “Dummy! Dummy!” She…

In “The Book of the Dead,” the role that the theme of social justice plays in Rukeyser’s work shows how she has advocated for the underprivileged and profoundly rooted herself in social justice via poetry as well as drawn attention to the injustices occurring at the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel tragedy at Gauley Bridge in the 1930s. She has been using distinctive documentary poetry forms that have combined lyrical descriptions, persona poetry, photographs, and legal documents. In order to raise awareness of the events occurring in the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel by taking into account the testimony of the workers during the trials. She has been providing these workers with an opportunity to express…

In the first group of poems Rukeyser begins to weave together testimony, history, travel writing, ethnography, chemistry, and other discourses. These terms are what I have read in Culler’s chapter as numerous descriptions such as poems, stories, plays, language, imaginative writing, etc. Culler described that theorists demonstrate a powerful literariness at work in supposedly non-literary texts, thus complicating the distinction between the literary and the non-literary. However, Rukeyser employs literature as she integrates documents, graphs, and mathematics alongside the conventional designs of structures linked to the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel tragedy in Gauley Bridge in the 1930s. Numerous instances of environmental degradation, labor exploitation, and industrial accidents have occurred. This functions as…

1. According to Culler, describe one of the different ways that people define “literature” identified by Culler? How does this definition reflect different perspectives on what literature is and does? According to Culler, one different way that people define “literature” identified by Culler is by numerous descriptions such as poems, stories, plays, language, imaginative writing, etc. Culler described that theorists demonstrate a powerful literariness at work in supposedly non-literary texts, thus complicating the distinction between the literary and the non-literary. This definition reflects the different perspectives on what literature is and does because speaking of the discovery of the ‘literariness’ of non-literary phenomena, it indicates that the notion of literature…