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

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory
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  • “dumping ground
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 06 Oct 14
       
      This makes me think that it is compared them to garbage or unwanted materials.
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...rbing-tale-of-selfishness.html
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  • those who would say that Silverstein’s book is a moving, sentimental depiction of the unyielding love of a parent for a child, I’d say, Learn better parenting skills.
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 06 Oct 14
       
      She obviously has her opinion and is not open to anything else. Some people interpret things differently. 
  • I didn’t remember it that way, because too many people had told me about it since I’d last read it.
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 06 Oct 14
       
      People influenced her opinion, making her forget what her own opinion once was
  • The boy and the tree are both “flawed,” and in the most old-fashioned way, their flaws, which are also their characters, determine their fates.
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 06 Oct 14
       
      I agree with what she said. Flaws represent character.
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views

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  • but as Mr. Washington knew the heart of the South from birth and training,
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 03 Oct 14
       
      He was born in the south and knew the ways of the south.
  • he learn the speech and thought of triumphant commercialism, and the ideals of material prosperity that the picture of a lone black boy poring over a French grammar
    • mlrykard
      mlrykard on 03 Oct 14
       
      He soon learned the ways of the north such as speak and grammar.
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