1996 Literary Review (No

Whittier College Poet Commons Greenleaf Review Student Scholarship & Research 5-1996 1996 Literary Review (no. 10) Sigma Tau Delta Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/greenleafreview Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons 1996 LITERARY RE VIEW Number 10 May, 1996 lomminklL A SIGMA TAU DELTA PUBLICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This page is dedicated to all the people who played an essential role in making the publishing process a little less difficult. Previously to this Literary Review publication, I knew absolutely nothing about the computer publishing program, dealing with publishing companies and actually manifesting a product. This is why I am so very grateful to those who made the challenge less monumental: *Thank you, Veronica Jauriqui, for teaching me how to work PageMaker, the foundation on which this entire book is based. You were patient, full of alacrity and accessible. *Thank you, Jennifer Sanchez-Salazar, for helping me type essays and especially for staying up with me until late hours in the Writing Center, converting each literary work to MacWrite II, and for alleviating me of the burden the following day. That night, I really needed you, so, thanks. *Thank you, Elizabeth Freudenthal and Marina Gonzalez, for taking the time to help me with the typing in the midst of your own busy schedules of writing papers and completing senior projects. *Thank you, Wendy Furman, for providing a place in which the selection process could occur, and for your generous display of doughnuts, bagels, tea, and exotic, freshly ground coffee. *Thank you, Bruce Gevirtzman, for listening to me vent my frustrations, for sacrificing your time to help me in the last days of the process and for reassuring me that everything would turn out fine. *Thank you, Andrew Ngugi, for collecting art work and for feeling responsible to each contributor for taking care of their creations. *Thank you, Tara O'Brien, for taking the time to help Andrew in collecting and dealing with the art work compilation of the Literary Review. * Lastly, thank you to all who mustered up the courage to submit their essays, poetry, art, and fiction to the Literary Review. 1 INTRODUCTION The International English Honorary Society, Sigma Tau Delta, welcomes you to its 10th edition of the Literary Review. In 1986, the Literary Review was created to communicate the best of students' literary works on the Whittier College campus. In order to reflect the diversity of talents, the publication covers disciplines from political science and psychology, to religion and English. The selection process, layout, editing, and design are done entirely by students. The Literary Review was founded on the belief that academic and creative excellence should be rewarded, and that rewarding that excellence positively affects the intellectual life of the college. Under pressure, it is tempting to nonchalantly produce a mediocre product, but the students selected for this edition have demonstrated their commitment to upholding high standards in the midst of stress, deadlines, and projects; they, perhaps, even sacrificed a little sleep, nutrition, and "fun" in order to do so. In short, the literary selections communicate the possibilities of what can happen when one takes the time to strive for quality, excellence, and the ideal. You are now cordially invited to transcend into the creative, personal, and analytical minds of your colleagues. Janis Akiyama 1996 Editor-in-Chief 1996 Literary Review Staff Editor-in-Chief Janis Akiyama Assistant Editors... Jennifer Sanchez-Salazar, Marina Gonzalez, Elizabeth Freudenthal Associate Editors.. Helen Han, Jose Burgos, Toni Panetti, Andrew Ngugi, Melissa Miller, Shefali Desai, Rochelle DuPlessis, Sonia Hernandez, Raquel Ogaz, Michelle Bean Art Managers Andrew Ngugi, Tara O'Brien Cover Art Anna Warren 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Moving Forward 7 Sonia Hernandez Twilight Temptress & Heat 12 Marina T. Gonzalez AsAFamily 13 Michelle Velasquez Bean Morning 18 John Maki How I Feel About Dye-Job Redheads 19 Catherine Stover Canal Trail 20 Karen Grissette The Accidental Traveler.. .or, The Anti-Odyssey of Rip Van Winkle 21 Jennifer Sanchez-Salazar August Afternoon & Song of Mary 32 Carrie Forrest & Rochelle DuPlessis Untitled 34 Devlin Grunloh The White Cloud & Enlightenment 35 Sora A. Farfan & Soraphine Ann Gott Nihilistic Botany or How I Became the Creator of Nothingness 36 Candace Lawrence Minimum Wage 40 Karen Grissette Lo-fi Blues 41 Melissa Dougherty 3 Fiction 45 Marina T. Gonzalez Nature Perceived: A Wilderness Triptych 46 Jedediah Gilchrist Flowers 53 Trista Rokitta While the Meter Ticks 54 Marina T. Gonzalez PACMAN 57 Jovi Candela na Nana, Mi Abuela 58 Michelle Velasquez Bean Living Quarters 66 Catherine Stover A Humanistic Hamlet. Shakespeare's Dissolution of the Courtly Prince 67 Michael Garabedian Friday Night Outside 82 Melissa B. Dougherty Magic at 2000 ft. 83 Melissa Miller I come here, in silence 84 Devlin Grunloh Where Poetry Left Science Behind 86 John Maki Space Boy Riding Through the Universe 87 Tara O'Brien By a Woman's Hand 88 Jose Burgos (OPTIONAL) ETHNIC BACKGROUND: CIRCLE ONE 90 Rochelle DuPlessis Please Hear What I'm Not Saying 95 Jason Pin go! 4 Newborn Beauty 97 April 6 rice Questions 98 Jason Pin go! Educating Educators 99 Rochelle DuPlessis The Fashion Show 106 James Dominguez Model Girl 107 Elizabeth Freudenthal Seasons Amongst Sequoias--a meditation in three parts 112 Jeremy Cosand A Structuralist Interpretation of Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera 116 Kristina Nasi Reflections 119 Rochelle DuPlessis The Feminist One 120 Tara O'Brien "0 lady in whom my hope shall ever soar": The Significance of Dante's Beatrice 121 She fall Desai Weeping & Rationale of Envy 134 Marina T. Gonzalez & Jason Pin gol The Guide 135 Mary Neiheiser please, no pictures 137 Nathan Malone The Birdcage People 138 James Dominguez The Myth of the Clay People 139 Jennifer Sanchez-Salazar The Gladiator 149 Jason Pin go! 5 The Naked Soul 150 Michael Keith Ambrose Hand in Hand They Passed 151 Michelle Velasquez Bean Lavendar Jewel 163 Dimas Diaz Nude Women 164 Trista Rolcitta Comfortably Naked 165 Karen Grissette Psychological and Psychophysical Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) 166 Jonathan Arnett 6 Moving Forward by Sonia Hernandez "Lets go somewhere!" my sister yells as we sit on the brownish carpet of her room. "Where do you want to go?" I ask, feeling the same boredom and frustration expressed on her light corn plected face. "Anywhere! The beach; Hollywood; Melrose; the Mall; Uptown! Anywhere! Lets go anywhere; do anything. Lets just get out of this place." "We have to ask Dad." "Forget it," she says, losing hope for getting out of the house. We continue to mope in her room, when suddenly we hear the opening and closing of the "other" bathroom - - the restroom near the kitchen. My Dad has just finished taking one of his long, usual shits, and will be coming toward the bedrooms soon. We get up quickly and try to look busy, so as to avoid being told "go wash dishes," or "feed the dog." My sister starts straightening her room, so I briskly walk to mine and start cleaning. My Dad walks toward the bedrooms and stands in the middle of the hallway which leads into all three bedrooms and a bathroom - - the bathroom we, my sister and I, like using and fight over so as not to use the "other" bathroom. As he stands in the middle of the square hall and looks into our bedrooms, my Dad asks, "What are you girls doing?" In sync my sister and I say, "Cleaning our rooms!" "Go feed the dog and wash the dishes!" he commands us both, and goes about doing odds and ends in and outside the house. I negotiate with my sister and tell her to feed the dog, while I put any clean dishes away, so we can wash dishes together. Together, we not only get the dishes done faster, but we also update each other on the latest chisme1. Though my sister, Sandra, is five years younger than me, we get along extremely well; we hardly ever fight. When we do argue, I'm always saying "sorry" and asking for forgiveness, because I hate being on bad terms with people, especially with Sandra, my 7 only sister. Sandra is very mature for her age; she is sixteen right now, and seems to influence me more than I influence her. I only say this because I admire her strong sense of identity. At her high school, which used to be mine, she is somewhat popular and has several identities. She can be looked at as a "band member," a "punker," a "rebel," and a tough person who won't put up with shit. Sandra can kick the ass of any one of her male friends. At home she is a poet, a musician, an artist, and a strong individual. Unlike me, she doesn't let my Dad's lectures get her down. When I was in high school, I didn't get involved in anything. All I really did was keep a good grade point average and graduate salutatorian. Unlike my sister, I couldn't identify myself with any particular group of students. I wasn't a Ra-Ra, an athlete, a Jar head, a nerd, a band member, or any other type of student. I was just the girl in casual clothes, who told dirty jokes, flirted a little, did her work and got good grades, which my Dad demanded of me. Now that I'm in college, it seems that I am doing the same thing. With the exception of telling dirty jokes and flirting, I am still keeping a good G.P.A and not getting involved much.

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