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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 24 views

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

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  • There is no why here.” Perhaps that terse reply is the only adequate response to all questions of “Why?” relating to the Holocaust. ♦
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      dlocke26 on 04 Oct 14
       
      This one was confusing altogether to read and follow.
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 13 views

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

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  • For those who need a recap: Boy meets adoring, obliging apple tree and eventually, through a combination of utter impotence and blatant manipulation, makes off with her branches, her trunk and, of course, the literal fruits of her labor. (I’m not even going to get into the biblical implications of Silverstein’s decision to make the tree of the book’s title apple-bearing.) “And the tree was happy,” reads the last line of the 52-page story, a sentiment repeated by Silverstein so many times that it sends some, like me, into paroxysms of reflexive indignation.
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      dlocke26 on 04 Oct 14
       
      I like that Ms. Holmes did a recap. Provided me with info I needed
  • O.K., maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but you get the idea.)”
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      dlocke26 on 04 Oct 14
       
      I like how she kind of puts a little side note right here to end the paragraph. Kind of helps to make the book review hit home.
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  • What are we to make of all those happys like poppies dense in a simple, flat field? Each happy alters the happy that follows it.
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      dlocke26 on 04 Oct 14
       
      Galchen gets really technical with the story here. Even quoting it specific words
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views

historymatters.gmu.edu/40

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  • it is easier to do ill than well in the world.
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      dlocke26 on 30 Sep 14
       
      This is a powerful statement Mr. Dubois says. It is true to the time this was written.
  • In the South especially has he had to walk
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      dlocke26 on 30 Sep 14
       
      This can relate to the text, Kindred- Dana has to always watch herself and not say something she isn't supposed to say, and to avoid the harsh judgments of Weylin and Rufus.
  • warily to avoid the harshest judgments
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  • In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things, —
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      dlocke26 on 30 Sep 14
       
      I find this article interesting- two African Americans almost working against each other. Both have different approaches to reach freedom.
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