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

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory
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  • Yet, when such cruelties are repeated and repeated, even the satirist is apt to lose heart and concur with Thomsen:
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      jayjackson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Oates shows that some of the actions were repetitive and tiresome.
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 13 views

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      jayjackson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Galchen explains that the adjectives in the story contradicts what happens following them.
  • “to have a conversation about what it means to take, and to give, too much.”
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      jayjackson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Maybe this book is about taking advantage of things, people, opportunities based on this statement.
  • I’d say that I’m not so sure Silverstein, who dedicated the book to a former girlfriend, “Nicky,” was writing an indictment of what men assume they can get way with
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      jayjackson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Holmes feel as if, the author has had an past experience with mistreating women.
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views

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  • “In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
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      jayjackson on 02 Oct 14
       
      This quote is very true. I love the way that it's worded, in terms of people coming together as a whole. That was very clever.
  • Among his own people, however, Mr. Washington has encountered the strongest and most lasting opposition, amounting at times to bitterness, and even to-day continuing strong and insistent even though largely silenced in outward expression by the public opinion of the nation
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      jayjackson on 03 Oct 14
       
      Mr. Washington focused on his goals even when he did not have the support.
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