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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...rbing-tale-of-selfishness.html

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    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      the author provides evidence of how she is not alone on her opinion of how terrible the book is
  • he tree of Silverstein’s imagination, unlike most other trees felled by humans, suffers mightily but never dies, left to live out her years as a five-fingered stump, abandoned in the grass like the orphaned foot of a gentle sauropod.
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      I like how the tree can be used to represent the way humans ravage in the environment
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  • 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.
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      He wanted to keep a sad ending because it represented his sadness he went through to publish the book
Myra J

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

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

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    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      This sentence really makes me think
  • the Jews’d give us the same treatment if they had ½ a chance,
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      They feel as if the Jews would kill them first if they were given the chance, but they are really just assuming
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  • And mind you, disposing of the young and the elderly requires other strengths and virtues—fanaticism, radicalism, severity, implacability, hardness, iciness, mercilessness, und so weiter
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      If we knew everything that had occured then there would be no point in history
  • Given this fascination, it’s curious that Hitler has no presence in “The Zone of Interest” except as a quasi-mythic figure revered and feared by more ordinary Nazis.
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 06 Oct 14
       
      This section really made me question why Hitler did what he did to the Jews
Myra J

W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 25 views

historymatters.gmu.edu/40

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    • Myra J
      Myra J on 02 Oct 14
       
      People were surprised that Washington was as educated and surprised at his positive approach to win the North
  • 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.”
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 02 Oct 14
       
      I like how he compares the social world to a hand and fingers
  • And yet the time is come when one may speak in all sincerity and utter courtesy of the mistakes and shortcomings of Mr. Washington’s career, as well as of his triumphs, without being thought captious or envious, and without forgetting that it is easier to do ill than well in the world.
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  • being
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 02 Oct 14
       
      It is easier to do ill than well is what I like about this. Doing wrong seems to be easier than doing right most of the time to people
  • The criticism that has hitherto met Mr. Washington has not always been of this broad character. In the South especially has he had to walk warily to avoid the harshest judgments,—and naturally so, for he is dealing with the one subject of deepest sensitiveness to that section.
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 02 Oct 14
       
      The South forced him to hide his broad character
  • First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly.
    • Myra J
      Myra J on 02 Oct 14
       
      we should understand where we come from
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