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After his father was killed battling orcs, Aragorn was sent to live in Rivendell with his mother, Gilraen. Around his twentieth year, as he walked in the woods singing a part of the Lay of Lúthien , he witnessed the beauty of Arwen for the first time, clad in a mantle of silver and blue. Mistaking her for Lúthien, he called to her by that name, and, from that moment on, loved only her. Gilraen warned Aragorn of the folly of his love for Arwen, a high-born elf such as she was. Aragorn soon left Imladris, and for thirty years fought against Sauron on whatever front which was deemed necessary. In his forty-ninth year of life, after years of strife and toil, he wished, once again, to be at peace. He came into Lórien, not knowing that Arwen also was there, and stayed with her for a season. “And thus it was that Arwen first beheld him again after their long parting; and as he came walking towards her under the trees of Caras Galadhon laden with flowers of gold, her choice was made and her doom appointed.” On Cerin Amroth, in the midst of Lórien they plighted their troth looking toward the shadow of the east and the twilight of the west. After The War of the Ring, Arwen and Aragorn were married and spent six-score years in bliss. As Aragorn felt his life drawing to a close, he came to Arwen, saying, “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.” After he passed from the world in the House of the Kings, she bid farewell to Eldarion and her daughters, and went out of Minas Tirith to Lórien and, “dwelt there alone under the fading trees until winter came.” Sometime before the Spring she laid herself down upon Cerin Amroth, and there she would lie until the world’s ending.

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Five years since anyone touched her. 
Touched her with her consent. 

She’s too scared to live her life. 
She’s too scared to make mistakes and new regrets so she just hides. 
But she knows the only one she’s hiding from is her. 

Today i studied a book i actually loved and wasn’t ruined for me by critical analysis and interpretation. The Devil in the Blue Dress by Walter Mosley is part of a series which tells the story of Easy Rawlins, an African American from 1930s to 1980s. This book in particular is set in downtown L.A in 1948 and Easy is allowed entry into the white mans city by solving the mystery of Daphne Monet and finding her for Albright, a white and dangerous male. Everything about Albright is white, from his race to his clothes to his persona. White is alienated and perceived as strange which is an incredibly interesting reversal of roles within the American detective novel. Interestingly the narrative is completely in the first person, which differentiates from works such as Auster’s New York Trilogy (well,the majority of it) and the narrative progresses through almostentirely dialogue rather then in narration. It is of a definite political agenda and in my personal opinion, Mosely captures and Probelematizes the genre and its ideology successfully in a captivating novel.

Walter Mosely himself

This book brings up many themes. Race is an obvious one, as it places the detective genre, predominantly a white masculine genre into the hands of the African American from their own perspective. From the opening to this book the reader immediately recognises that this is a problematic racial society. It problematizes the genre, and from a post modern perspective, the breakdown of certainty can be considered to make way for new identity and the re-working of old identity, and Mosely does this strategically. Mosely is also extremely interested in racial mixing in American locale and in inter racial relationships. One of the twists at the end of the novel is that Daphene Monet, originally from New Orleans but impersonates a French woman, is of mixed race, and fools both the white and black culture in her society. She embodies the link between gender and race. Throughout the narrative colour is also an obvious and complex theme, and Daphene is constantly associated with thecolour brown, although there are countless references of brightness and whiteness for us to reach this analysis. Furthermore, Mosely uses a colour in each of the titles of his works, creating and interesting theme with colour and what it can interpret.

easy rawlins, our hero

The city is not absent within this text but is in fact intricately used to display ownership and territory. La is two cities. It contains the African American city in the dominating white man’s city. There is also an interesting theme of ownership, relating with master-slave relationships from the early nineteenth century. Albright tells Easy at one point of the novel. “Once you have taken my money, you belong to me” which also portrays the power of consumerism and the system of capitalism America grounded itself upon. Easy Rawlins takes much pride in his home, and emphasises greatly that it is his, under his possession and ownership. He loves it as if he would love a woman, and the theme of homeland which is absent in works such as again, Auster’s New York Trilogy, powerfully takes hold of the novel and shows how America has become the homeland to those not always of pure heritage. In fact, there are very few characters in this novel that can be considered pure white American, and mixed racial identity appears to be the dominating identity that America has yet to accept and pursue.

Yet one of the key questions is if Easy Rawlins really is a detective. Although this novel is flooded with murder, violence and gang warfare is this really a detective genre. Somethign to pursue!

I have just touched in ten minutes ona  few things that i learnt from this book and could go on in so much more detail. But i’ll save that for an essay. But a definite must read to everyone i think,well if your into the detective genre and the politics of African American literature.

Have a great weekend! mine will be working, working and oh yeh … working

so decided to update. last four months at uni is hell but its a good bloody job i enjoy my work. done more then half of my dissertation whichb is good but seemed to have reached a wall with it. I will insight

It is basically exploring how the first female writers to be published in America related tot he public from personal and private experience, concentrating specifically on the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and the Captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson. I’ve finished my chapter on Anne Bradstreet which i am pretty proud of, observing her relationship with the Puritan religion, something which united the colony which these women lived within. Also I have analyzed her relationship with the male authority within her life, her connection with the American wilderness and the domestic sphere which she was confined to throughout her life. I have grown to love this woman and feel touched by her poetry and pretty privialged to be able to give such a poet justice who died in 1693 and has become larger in the academic sphere then she could have ever expected. This humble woman deserves thorough praise.

Yeah i am a geek but i don’t give a shit. Its better then get excited over completing an online food shop (WHICH I DID NOT ..In other news my university units in ym last term are At a Time of Violence, which is how violence is all degrees is portrayed in literature and film, looking at violence theories and psychoanalysis. I have a strong feeling that this will be pretty interested so will keep you updated. I am also doing Contemporary American writing whcih has some pretty good books on the unit outline.

In news which has nothing whatsoever with uni, I am still working in the Gay Village in Manchester. Living with the bestie amy cockers. have the best mates though we barely see eachother nowadays with work n uni getting inconveniently in the way. But they are there n thats what matters.

Tbh my life is quite a bore at the minute. although there is a few things tht are making everything worth it, one thingin particular. But thats for another time. Get ready for the greatest blogging of books you will EVER read the next few months.

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