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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 20 views

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory
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  • reverie of Doll’s: “She is a personable and knowing young female, albeit too flachbrustig (though her Arsch is perfectly all right, and if you hoiked up that tight skirt you’d . . . Don’t quite see why I write like this. It isn’t my style at all).”
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 06 Oct 14
       
      She takes many quotes form the book for proof of her comments and opinions. 
  • Yet Thomsen is a self-described Aryan specimen—six feet three, with cobalt-blue “arctic eyes” and “thighs as solid as hewn masts.”
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 06 Oct 14
       
      This shows some of the imagery in the book.
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 9 views

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  • “Most disgusting book ever,” said one. “One star or five, there is no middle ground,” declared another. “The Nazis would have loved it,” one man raged
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 04 Oct 14
       
      She wants people to agree with her opinion of the book, so she's showing us she's not the only one who feels it's negative. 
  • “The Giving Tree” is not a children’s book like the useful, humble classic “Hands Are Not for Hitting.” The tale is not exemplary.
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 04 Oct 14
       
      The book does not give a literal message. Usually younger kids don't understand what the message is, because it calls for interpretation. 
  • “Happy” is the last word of the story, and in interviews Shel Silverstein explained that it took him years to find a publisher for “The Giving Tree” — that it had been important to him that he keep what he called the sad ending.
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 04 Oct 14
       
      I feel like this is irony. Although it ends in the word "happy" it's actually a sad ending.
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 25 views

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  • And yet ten years later it was done in the word spoken at Atlanta
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 02 Oct 14
       
      This shows that he was obviously very persuasive, and probably respected, because people ended up agreeing with him.
  • Walker’s wild appeal against
    • marygorman95
      marygorman95 on 02 Oct 14
       
      Alliteration to draw us in for this next paragraph.
  • Walker’s wild appeal against
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