Bøger af Lorenzo Cherubini

The book, An Ideology of Crisis and Identity: Learning about ¿Life under the Rocks of the Tide Pool¿, includes three chapters with the focus in each section on one specific aspect of the ideology of naturalism and how it applies to the texts under examination. Steinbeck's examination of a people in crisis is a scathing criticism of the exploitation of the Okies in the 1930's, and it is a tribute to the strength of the human community that unites in body and spirit. It is an example of the strength of individual identity ¿ experiencing oneness with another. The absurdity in Faulkner's fiction creates a humour that veils a profound disparity in Addie Bundren's and the tall convict's condition leaving them alienated and isolated. An Ideology of Crisis and Identity: Learning about ¿Life under the Rocks of the Tide Pool¿ discusses the symbolic whisper of the old man as being representative of communication and strength between people and will appeal to all readers interested in the complex and sensitive issues that implicate upon the polarity of individual crisis and idenity in The Grapes of Wrath, As I Lay Dying and Old Man.

Cherubini is ever questioning the Human condition of Belief and Heart, taking the Sacred with the Painful. He skillfully invites us to ponder the mystery of depth and thought in Human Relationships, in this vast myriad of complexity within our Longing, as he issues a plea for tolerance, kindness and introspection. Along with strong encouragement to ask ourselves to know the experience of our Dark and Light past our superficial familiarity. This is a courageous book for those who desire to know the deepest facets of the essence of their Beings. The author himself encourages us - "to live with inextinguishable hope- and suspend contingency to pursue ALL that is possible. Cherubini's wonder knows no limit, his curiosity opens the reader in a most personal way. Every aspect is up for investigation, compelling the reader to take stock of their own patterns of behaviour, looking for Spirit to mediate truth. We are left to answer the question, "Is it possible to weave the tapestry of Life, while unraveling the threads of Mystery. A Disruptive Cadence, a line from Cherubini's new book, would have made a great title. Not because the work leans toward the philosophical, but because each line is like a strummed chord. Some harmonize, others jam through social and personal commentary that moves without metaphor. Does it work as poetry? McLuhan believed the alphabet was a series of metaphors, and letters form words. Perhaps, it may depend on a disruptive cadence.

A timely assessment of a successful initiative to support Aboriginal cultural ways and worldviews in one Ontario high school.