Savich and Prevallet

Savich
In Zach Savich's Crumbling Expectations, he talks about a book his father had tried to write by the same name. It was to be about the owner of a resort that was crumbling into the lake. But, he had to stop writing it due to having to recover from cancer. In this way, his father's book is the resort - he had hoped to write this novel, but, just as the resort did, it crumbled under the weight of an unfortunate event. Savich later states "I didn't realize a book is itself an embrace." Books are indeed an "embrace" - they are a comfort, something we can relate to. They are everything we are and everything we want to be.

Prevallet

In Kristin Prevallet's Mythology and Homonym, I most thoroughly enjoyed the play on words. For example, "I" and "eye" were compared. Essentially, there were always two words that looked different but sounded the same. They are words that sound exactly alike, but hold entirely different meanings. I thought this was an interesting choice for her to make.