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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 12 views

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory

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  • Holocaust.
    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      Such a terrible thing to think about. Its sick just thinking of how those people were treated.
  • And by reason of that, not all of me will die.”
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      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      he wanted to make sure they would know what he experienced whether he was alive or dead. 
  • The effect of the Holocaust isn’t singular but cumulative.
    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      It is definitely something that will never be forgotten. 
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 6 views

www.nytimes.com/...rbing-tale-of-selfishness.html

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  • A passionate and very vocal minority of reviewers on sites like Amazon and Goodreads seems to find the story an affront not just to literature but to humanity itself.
    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      People were obviously offended by the book and thought it was inappropriate.
  • Betsey Stevenson, the economist and Obama administration appointee, reads the book to her children and says it creates a space
    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      She reads it to her kids but in the above paragraph Strauss refuses to read it to his kids. People have different views of the book and some doesn't see it as badly as others make it out to be.
  • “The Giving Tree” is not a children’s book like the useful, humble classic “Hands Are Not for Hitting.”
    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 05 Oct 14
       
      If it isn't a children's book, why would somebody even consider reading it to a child? The girl in the last review thought it was okay, but the person in this one thinks it isnt. 
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 16 views

historymatters.gmu.edu/40

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      kaylanholt on 01 Oct 14
       
      Booker T. Washington wanted blacks to have an education so they could do things for themselves instead of asking white people. He thought blacks could get much further in life if they focused on things other than just wanting equality. 
  • To-day he stands as the one recognized spokesman of his ten million fellows, and one of the most notable figures in a nation of seventy millions.
  • In the North the feeling has several times forced itself into words, that Mr. Washington’s counsels of submission overlooked certain elements of true manhood, and that his educational programme was unnecessarily narrow.
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    • kaylanholt
      kaylanholt on 01 Oct 14
       
      Mr. Washington knew that no matter what blacks did, they would never be equal to whites. Even though blacks have more rights now than there was back then, racism still exists. 
  • The present generation of Southerners are not responsible for the past, and they should not be blindly hated or blamed for it.
  • Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs
  • First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly
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      kaylanholt on 01 Oct 14
       
      Many people feel like it is every white persons fault that slavery existed. It is something that some people will never be able to get over.
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