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

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

shared by savannahroach on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
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      savannahroach on 04 Oct 14
       
      This quote makes me think that the soldiers do not want to do what they are commanded but are forced to.
  • “I feel that if you knew every day, every hour, every minute of human history, you would find no exemplum, no model, no precedent.”
    • savannahroach
      savannahroach on 04 Oct 14
       
      I think this quote is saying that if we did not have history then we would not have anything to learn from.
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  • “He has so far gone unnamed in this book; but now I am obliged to type out the words ‘Adolf Hitler.’
    • savannahroach
      savannahroach on 04 Oct 14
       
      I feel like they didn't mention Adolf Hitler's name because they were somewhat afraid of him and what he is capable of.
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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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      savannahroach on 03 Oct 14
       
      So the novel is about a boy or a man taking advantage of a women. The book describes how the boy uses the women for pleasure, "lives off her like a parasites, and then, when she's a shell of her farmer self no longer serves any real purpose, he sits on her..".
  • “I don’t want to hold the tree accountable,” she continued, but she thinks there could have been a happier ending: “If only she’d set limits, she wouldn’t be a stump today!”
    • savannahroach
      savannahroach on 03 Oct 14
       
      She explains that if "the tree" said no to the boy or limited what the boy took from her she wouldn't end up a stump. This means if the woman said no to the man she wouldn't feel that everything was taken from her.
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  • 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.
    • savannahroach
      savannahroach on 03 Oct 14
       
      This means that "the tree" and the boy both have problems. If "the tree" said no to the boy then she wouldn't end up as just a stump. And if the boy was told no he may have learned something from that and wouldn't have ended up sad.
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