Conclusively, this book seeks to develop empathy. The researcher juxtaposes post structuralism and postmodern philosophical paradigms. Maryann P. DiEdwardo participated in interdisciplinary theory and practice in the summer of 2017. She argues Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal indicates the study of the language of trauma. Literacy is the lifelong intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of written or printed text. Literary critiques explore the writer’s mind as symbolic within the message of the words. Writers listen to their own voices first. We touch upon different types of writing in the book. Of course, the healing process comes through words. Our poetics that generate the most healing are usually those coming from our inner core. Maryann DiEdwardo writes seven literary critiques and seven reflections to share her newest research about the power of literature to heal. Zora Neale Hurston was influenced in the 20th century by Nella Larsen. Both authors show us how to write about real events in order to make a difference. Nella Larsen as imperative for 21st-century literary scholarship, in the same capacity as we include Langston Hughes. She offers us methodology and pedagogical structure which allows writers to explore the period of the Harlem Renaissance within the themes of post feminism and the many ways in which women are often fearful, subject to rape and other kinds of violence. In her writing, Nella Larsen also examines the politically and economically underprivileged. Maryann examines the significance of the message of suffering in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy. Maryann DiEdwardo’s original essay “Semiotics, Connectivity, and Social Order Of Imagined Architecture In Fiction Works” won the Karen Lentz Award in Denver at the 2016 Conferences College English Association for Adjunct or Contingent Faculty Presentation.