http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org Course Blog of ENGL 113--University of Illinois at Chicago Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:12:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Biography Chang-Rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a first-generation Korean American novelist.Lee was born in Korea in 1965. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. Raised in Westchester, New York, Lee attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/chang-rae-lee/ Biography  In 1969 in New York City, Colson Whitehead was born.  He grew up in Manhattan.  He attended Trinity School, eventually attending Harvard College, the undergraduate college of Harvard Universtiy.  He graduated in 1991.  After graduating, he returned to New York and is now residing in Brooklyn.             Following graduation, Whitehead worked ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/04/07/colson-whitehead/ Dave McAndrew Eng 113 Aloft Throughout the book Chang-rae Lee shows the Jerry only fly’s his plane alone to think about everything that has gone on. Jerry flying his plane alone is like his get away from everything in the world. The passages I am writing about have Theresa in the ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/31/aloft-ending-chapters/ The passage I'm going to look at is from page 298 of Aloft by Change Rae Lee. It is something Paul says referring to Theresa, but which also applies directly to Jerry. In this passage, we can see the similarities between the two and also perhaps why Jerry treated Daisy the way ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/24/77/ While waiting for Patterson, head administrator of Ivy Acres, Jerry comes across an animal show. It’s one he’s seen before about two lions, Red and Nero. Red is the “crusty old male lion” and dominant male of the pride (304). He is properly named Red because of ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/18/aloft-4/ Mother Or Child An interesting part of the plot so far in this book is the situation with Theresa and her family. The situation being Theresa is pregnant and being diagnosed with a cancerous or cancer-like disease. I just thought it was interesting because I started to wonder what ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/18/mother-or-child/ Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee is the story of a sixty-something year old man by the name of Jerry Battle. This novel focuses on many parts of Jerry’s life, most important to him being his relationships with his children, the family business, and his love of flying his own plane. ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/aloft-3/ The character of Jerry Battle in the novel Aloft, by Chang –Rae Lee is one who desires to escape the fast-paced, changing world in order to be alone and to be in control of what happens around him. As he is getting older, it seems that he is in less ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/jerry-and-sir-harold/ Jerry Battle, the main character of the book, who was around sixty years old, retired from his own company, Battle Brothers Brick & Mortar, which was established by his grandfather, and developed to a landscaping company by his father and uncles. Jerry was a kind of rich guy. He had ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/14/aloft-2/ In Chang-Rae Lee’s Aloft, Lee’s narrator is a wealthy, upper-class white man. This seems to break away from other ethnic writers because Lee writes from the perspective of a race that is not his own. Why does Lee do this? When Lee’s narrator is introduced to the ... http://multiethnicliterature.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/aloft/