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I'm liking the lack of gender roles portrayed so far. Seems that both men and women (boys and girls) can and do have complex jobs and tasks. I love the young perspective on family and friends.
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December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I'm liking the lack of gender roles portrayed so far. Seems that both men and women (boys and girls) can and do have complex jobs and tasks. I love the young perspective on family and friends.
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The illustration of the women marching on page 162 really draws me in. And the third graphic, "You'd think she was Lady Di!" "She was a daughter of Persia." We can see history and people being erased in this scene. #BSUwlit
November 13, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The illustration of the women marching on page 162 really draws me in. And the third graphic, "You'd think she was Lady Di!" "She was a daughter of Persia." We can see history and people being erased in this scene. #BSUwlit
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I love the kindness, compassion, and willingness to give that the 'normal' people consistently show towards each other. That even in this awful time where people are being hung in the streets, human connection can still prevail.
I love the kindness, compassion, and willingness to give that the 'normal' people consistently show towards each other. That even in this awful time where people are being hung in the streets, human connection can still prevail.
November 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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I love the kindness, compassion, and willingness to give that the 'normal' people consistently show towards each other. That even in this awful time where people are being hung in the streets, human connection can still prevail.
I love the kindness, compassion, and willingness to give that the 'normal' people consistently show towards each other. That even in this awful time where people are being hung in the streets, human connection can still prevail.
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I can really feel the desperation with the mother and normalization with the aunt of what is happening in Chapter One. This is really accurate to how tragedy happens and people cope, and made it that much more real for the reader.
I can really feel the desperation with the mother and normalization with the aunt of what is happening in Chapter One. This is really accurate to how tragedy happens and people cope, and made it that much more real for the reader.
November 8, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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I can really feel the desperation with the mother and normalization with the aunt of what is happening in Chapter One. This is really accurate to how tragedy happens and people cope, and made it that much more real for the reader.
I can really feel the desperation with the mother and normalization with the aunt of what is happening in Chapter One. This is really accurate to how tragedy happens and people cope, and made it that much more real for the reader.
"Interestingly, the emotional range of the cat, which is capable of both embarrassment and exuberant promiscuity, is considerably wider than that of most of the human characters in the play." (xlii)
I found the use of animal emotions to substitute what we should feel for humans intriguing.
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I found the use of animal emotions to substitute what we should feel for humans intriguing.
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November 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
"Interestingly, the emotional range of the cat, which is capable of both embarrassment and exuberant promiscuity, is considerably wider than that of most of the human characters in the play." (xlii)
I found the use of animal emotions to substitute what we should feel for humans intriguing.
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I found the use of animal emotions to substitute what we should feel for humans intriguing.
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The whole scene with Padraic and James had me cracking up. Little scared to see what happens when Padraic discovers his cat is dead. Since apparently his bond with this cat is enough to get a man out of torture???
The whole scene with Padraic and James had me cracking up. Little scared to see what happens when Padraic discovers his cat is dead. Since apparently his bond with this cat is enough to get a man out of torture???
October 30, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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The whole scene with Padraic and James had me cracking up. Little scared to see what happens when Padraic discovers his cat is dead. Since apparently his bond with this cat is enough to get a man out of torture???
The whole scene with Padraic and James had me cracking up. Little scared to see what happens when Padraic discovers his cat is dead. Since apparently his bond with this cat is enough to get a man out of torture???
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The amount of animal violence was absolutely insane, it was an easier way to show psychopathic behavior without human violence visually depicted though.
The amount of animal violence was absolutely insane, it was an easier way to show psychopathic behavior without human violence visually depicted though.
October 28, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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The amount of animal violence was absolutely insane, it was an easier way to show psychopathic behavior without human violence visually depicted though.
The amount of animal violence was absolutely insane, it was an easier way to show psychopathic behavior without human violence visually depicted though.
The slapping of the cow parts on the ground was really disgusting. Good comedic break in a dark humor kind of way from the conversation that was just had on the train.
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October 28, 2024 at 2:31 PM
The slapping of the cow parts on the ground was really disgusting. Good comedic break in a dark humor kind of way from the conversation that was just had on the train.
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"The tiger was actually always asleep inside her, she had seen it stretched out, drowsing and inert" (On Becoming a Tiger)
The use of animals as metaphor throughout Goodison's poem collection is intriguing.
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The use of animals as metaphor throughout Goodison's poem collection is intriguing.
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October 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM
"The tiger was actually always asleep inside her, she had seen it stretched out, drowsing and inert" (On Becoming a Tiger)
The use of animals as metaphor throughout Goodison's poem collection is intriguing.
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The use of animals as metaphor throughout Goodison's poem collection is intriguing.
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"You are her mother./Why did you not warn her,/hold her like a rotting boat/and tell her that men will not lover her/if she is covered in continents,/if her teeth are small colonies/ if her stomach is an island/if her thighs are borders?" (Ugly - Warsan Shire)
October 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM
"You are her mother./Why did you not warn her,/hold her like a rotting boat/and tell her that men will not lover her/if she is covered in continents,/if her teeth are small colonies/ if her stomach is an island/if her thighs are borders?" (Ugly - Warsan Shire)
"I had judged everything on the basis of whether it was the sensible thing to do for the convenience store, but now I'd lost that standard. There was nothing to guide me..." (150)
This brings me back to whether or not the convenience store is good for Keiko considering the whole book.
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This brings me back to whether or not the convenience store is good for Keiko considering the whole book.
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October 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
"I had judged everything on the basis of whether it was the sensible thing to do for the convenience store, but now I'd lost that standard. There was nothing to guide me..." (150)
This brings me back to whether or not the convenience store is good for Keiko considering the whole book.
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This brings me back to whether or not the convenience store is good for Keiko considering the whole book.
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I kept trying to put a label on Keiko while reading, but I think that that is exactly the message that Murata is trying to make, that a person can be outside of the labels or boxes that society craves to put us in. #BSUwlit
October 16, 2024 at 1:55 PM
I kept trying to put a label on Keiko while reading, but I think that that is exactly the message that Murata is trying to make, that a person can be outside of the labels or boxes that society craves to put us in. #BSUwlit
"...and also they grew less worried for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime."(223)
I liked the way that Hamid described Nadia and Saeed's parting at the end of the novel.
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I liked the way that Hamid described Nadia and Saeed's parting at the end of the novel.
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October 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM
"...and also they grew less worried for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime."(223)
I liked the way that Hamid described Nadia and Saeed's parting at the end of the novel.
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I liked the way that Hamid described Nadia and Saeed's parting at the end of the novel.
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I like the way that Hamid uses magical realism paired with real reactions/results of immigration seen around the world.
I am also liking reading about the way that Nadia and Saeed's relationship is developing. It's described in a way that I rarely see and is very intriguing.
I like the way that Hamid uses magical realism paired with real reactions/results of immigration seen around the world.
I am also liking reading about the way that Nadia and Saeed's relationship is developing. It's described in a way that I rarely see and is very intriguing.
October 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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I like the way that Hamid uses magical realism paired with real reactions/results of immigration seen around the world.
I am also liking reading about the way that Nadia and Saeed's relationship is developing. It's described in a way that I rarely see and is very intriguing.
I like the way that Hamid uses magical realism paired with real reactions/results of immigration seen around the world.
I am also liking reading about the way that Nadia and Saeed's relationship is developing. It's described in a way that I rarely see and is very intriguing.
"...and she had shuffled off the weight of her virginity with some perplexity but not excessive fuss" (33).
I just love the language and descriptions throughout this book so far. There are so many excerpts where I stop and just go 'wow' at the descriptions used.
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I just love the language and descriptions throughout this book so far. There are so many excerpts where I stop and just go 'wow' at the descriptions used.
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October 2, 2024 at 1:56 PM
"...and she had shuffled off the weight of her virginity with some perplexity but not excessive fuss" (33).
I just love the language and descriptions throughout this book so far. There are so many excerpts where I stop and just go 'wow' at the descriptions used.
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I just love the language and descriptions throughout this book so far. There are so many excerpts where I stop and just go 'wow' at the descriptions used.
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"...How did we, as African writers, come to be so feeble towards the claims of our languages on us and so aggressive in our claims on other languages, particularly the languages of our colonization?..."
I found this line powerful and a good connection to many of the texts we have read.
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I found this line powerful and a good connection to many of the texts we have read.
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September 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
"...How did we, as African writers, come to be so feeble towards the claims of our languages on us and so aggressive in our claims on other languages, particularly the languages of our colonization?..."
I found this line powerful and a good connection to many of the texts we have read.
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I found this line powerful and a good connection to many of the texts we have read.
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The way that this story both normalizes and leads the reader to question gender roles is incredibly well done. By matter-of-factly not naming the woman makes the reader almost feel that this is normal. But the content creates a doubt in the reader of this normalcy.
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September 25, 2024 at 1:59 PM
The way that this story both normalizes and leads the reader to question gender roles is incredibly well done. By matter-of-factly not naming the woman makes the reader almost feel that this is normal. But the content creates a doubt in the reader of this normalcy.
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"Household objects, in the fullness of their poetry, flew with their own wings through the kitchen sky."(Light is Like Water)
I found the imagery at the end of this story very powerful, describing all the floating objects.
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September 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM
"Household objects, in the fullness of their poetry, flew with their own wings through the kitchen sky."(Light is Like Water)
I found the imagery at the end of this story very powerful, describing all the floating objects.
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