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

  • stricken with self-pity for being ill-treated by his wife
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 13 views

  • The boy uses the tree as a plaything, lives off her like a parasite, and then, when she’s a shell of her former self and no longer serves any real purpose, he sits on her
    • shavon1218
       
      She compares this to a boy having a girlfriend. How a boy would use a girl until he can't get anything else form her, then throw her away. If the girl is the tree, it wouldn't make the female happy. But this is a children's book, so how would a child be able to interpret this in the way that they have?
  • What are its adjectives, after the one in the title, “giving,” which never appears in the story itself? Little, tired, happy, older, alone, happy, too big, happy, happy, long, sad, happy, too busy, warm, happy, happy, so happy, too old, sad, happy, happy, long, sorry, gone, too weak, gone, too old, gone, too tired, sorry, old, sorry, quiet, very tired, old, good, happy
    • shavon1218
       
      I haven't read the book, but I agree. That's weird to not have the adjective ,giving, in the book, but its in the title. But the word "happy" appears a lot.  
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