Taia O'Neill - RMST 202

 I noticed that in "Combray" by Marcel Proust there is a lot of descriptive language used. This leads me to the find the text a bit confusing and hard to read. For the first few pages it was very difficult for me to piece together a storyline or just to figure out what was happening in general. The text seemed to show a lot of very deep thinking and perspective from the narrator when it comes to life and the other people that are in his life and family. The way that the narrator speaks about relying on a goodnight kiss from his mother in order to calm his anxiety so that he can sleep seems like something that is extremely important to him and something that he can not go without. The narrator seems to be very reliant on his mother and not being able to receive a goodnight kiss from his mother will cause his anxiety to rise and he would not be able to sleep. The attention to detail and the focus on the need for the attention from his mother shows that he may be struggling with...

 Hi everyone!! My name is Taia and i am a first year student here at UBC in the faculty of arts. I am from Vancouver, British Columbia and have lived here my whole life. I enjoy going to the gym and listening to music in my free time. My greatest passion is competitive cheerleading which I have done for over six years now. I have been lucky enough to get the opportunity to represent Team Canada through competitive cheerleading, so when I am not studying, I am at practice. Although I was born and raised in Canada, I come from several different cultures and ethnicities, which I take pride in learning about. I am excited to learn about the literature that was written originally in different languages, throughout this course. It was interesting to learn that most of the literary texts or novels that we will be studying and reading in this course are originally written in different languages. I think it is really cool to see how the texts are when translated into English from their orig...