Anyone reads "a mother in Manville?"?
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Sometimes kids make up stories to cover up or avoid sadness and pain. He may have wanted to create an artificial "happy place" and draw someone else into that fantasy to make it more real so that he can deal with the loss psychologically.
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i haven't read it, but if you have an e-file, would you mind sending it to me via email?\n\ncaeszarre@yahoo.com\n\ni've read "Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel" and "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature"\n\nthanks.
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Since the book just was released today (2/13), I don't think the list will be readily floating around online (Then nobody would have to buy it).  I would say to go check it out at Borders or Barnes & Noble.\n\nI hope to buy it within a week or so, and will let you know if anyone from GA is in there.
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The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a"blind," "cold ... .. silent" street where the houses "gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces." It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and false piety. The boy's house contains the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, a priest,died in the back room of the house, and his legacy-several old yel-lowed books, which the boy enjoys leafing through because they areold, and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbolsof the intellectual and religious vitality of the past. The boy, in themidst of such decay and spiritual paralysis, experiences the confusedidealism and dreams of first love and his awakening becomes incom-patible with and in ironic contrast to the staid world about him.\n\nEvery morning before school the boy lies on the floor in thefront parlor peeking out through a crack in the blind of the door,watching and waiting for the girl next door to emerge from her houseand walk to school. He is shy and still boyish. He follows her, walkssilently past, not daring to speak, overcome with a confused sense ofsensual desire and religious adoration. In his mind she is both a saintto be worshipped and a woman to be desired. His eyes are "often fullof tears," and one evening he goes to the back room where the priesthad died. Clasping the palms of his hands together, he murmurs, "0love! 0 love!" in a prayer not to God, but to the concept of love andperhaps even to the girl, his love. Walking with his aunt to shop onSaturday evenings he imagines that the girl's image accompanies him,and that he protects her in "places the most hostile to romance." Inthe mixed symbolism of the Christian and the Romantic or Orientalmyths Joyce reveals the epiphany in the story: "These noises con-verged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore mychalice safely through a throng of foes." He is unable to talk to thegirl. Drifting away from his schoolmates' boyish games, the boy hasfantasies in his isolation, in the ecstasy and pain of first love.\n\nFinally the girl speaks to the boy. She asks him if he is going toAraby. He replies that if he does he will bring her a gift, and fromthat moment, his thoughts upon the mixed imagery of the saintly lightupon her hair and the potential sensuality of "the white border of apetticoat," the boy cannot sleep or study. The word Araby "cast anEastern enchantment" over him, and then on the night he is to go tothe bazaar his uncle neglects to return home. Neither the aunt noruncle understands the boy's need and anguish, and thus his isolationis deepened. We begin to see that the story is not so much a story oflove as it is a rendition of the world in which the boy lives.\n\nThe second part of the story depicts the boy's inevitable disap-pointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness"-the aunt and uncle unaware of the boy's anguish, the girl not con-scious of the boy's love, and the boy himself blind to the true natureof his love-the words "hostile to romance" take on ironic overtones.These overtones deepen when the boy arrives too late at the bazaar.It is closing and the hall is "in darkness." He recognizes "a silencelike that which prevades a church after a service" but the bazaar isdirty and disappointing. Two men are "counting money on a salver"and he listens "to the fall of the coins." A young lady, bored withhim and interested in two men who are flirting with her, cheapensand destroys the boy's sense of an "Eastern enchantment." His love,like his quest for a gift to draw the girl to him in an unfriendly world,ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. Thus\n\nthe theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and theideal-is made final in the bazaar, a
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I sure did!!\n\nIt was one of my favorite books when I was younger.\n\nRoll of Thunder is part of a trilogy surrounding the Logan family (other two books are Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis) The protagonist is Cassie Logan and this is a basically a coming of age story set against the backdrop of what would be impending social change (i.e. the Civil Rights Movement) because the novella takes place in the 1930s.\n\nAnyway, to answer your first question, the location did matter. Mississppi, along with Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina are commonly referred to as the Deep South. In this region, racism and segregation were more blatant through the enactment of laws known as Jim Crow. It was also in this region (though really everywhere) that civil liberties of African Americans were violated and extreme antagonistic actions were taken against them (kidnappings, lynchings, etc.) by such groups like the Klu Klux Klan.\n\nThis is important because the Logan family actually owned land (a farm) in Mississippi. Property rights were so important to African Americans because they were denied for some time. Because of this, there was great pride in the Logan family; Cassie actually lived a pretty sheltered existence.\n\nYou have read the book so you know about the events that happen throughout the plot. It were those events that causes Cassie to sober up about what was happening to the idyllic world she once knew as social tensions began to escalate.\n\nThis book is actually a reflection of Mildred D. Taylor's personal experiences growing up during this time in America that proceded what was commonly referred to as the Civil Rights Movement (although in all actuality the Civil Rights Movement began FAR before 1955). She is actually from Mississppi, so that would be another reason for the location.\n\nYou can also go to Amazon.com and read their plot summary as well as Wikipedia to read Mildred D. Taylor's biography. Good luck!
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I love the novel. The glowing eyes, the 'is it a cat or Erik' mystery, the house on the lake, the torture chamber, the rat catcher, all of it.\n\nIt's a great novel, especially when begun with Gaston Leroux's sworn statement that the whole thing is true.
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Gosh, what a co-inky-dink! We were at the bookstore last night, and there was a compilation 4 pack cd set of Janice's, with pics, for under $20.00 (used) and I was hinting (read..beating over the head) to my fam that i would indeed love this or a Chicago cd set for mum's day..yah, she was so awesome, a Texan and all too..\nMy fav website on her also features her awesomely painted Porshe, which ended up in a museum in Germany..check it out my fellow hippie!\nps. mojoman! don't be a douchebag! Benetar is awesome but not even in the same genre as Joplin! I think, dear Sanitizer, that you should have clarified her as 'R&B' or something.\nhttp://www.officialjanis.com/porsche.html
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Considered a classic, written well enough before 1984,  it was thought to be prophetic in it's day.\n\nIt used to be that no one was considered "educated" who didn't have opinions about this book! (Especially as that year was approaching.)\n\nOrwell gave new meaning to the term "Big Brother," and the term "Orwellian" is used even today to categorize methods of population and thought control used by today's education systems and governments that are similar to those  described in this book.\n\nAdvance warning ~1984~ has some  'scenes' that in those days were a bit risque for parochial school, as well as some violence.\n\nOverall, I consider it a 'must read.'  The report I was required to make for it in  h.s. literature earned the same grade for me in a college class with only a few modifications - so save your notes.
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No, but I would like to check it out.\n\nHAHAHA Library humor!
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Oh! I love that story. We read it last semester. Have you read the story? It's really funny to read it and then think in the gutters. Our sub, Scott, taught us that. lol Anyway... okay... hm... thesis statement. \n\n"There are stories about fish and the like, but none quite like this. The boy in the story learns to grow after learning that his beloved Sheila is not what he thought she was. In the story the boy struggling with what he loves and what he thinks he is in love with. ([The story teaches about letting go, forgetting and growing up] <-- thesis)." \n\nOkay, to clarify the thesis:\n\nLetting go: Letting go of the fish and moving on.\nForgetting: He forgets that he can't very well catch a fish without her seeing, so he loses it. \nGrowing up: After he learns that Sheila Mant is not what he thought she but, but in fact a skany who9re (lol) he learns to move on and grow up. \n\nI hope this helped.
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The first answer is correct, the story is good.  It's a great example of how women were (and are still in some cases) treated and how detrimental it can be.  Definitely worth reading!!
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Yes I have, several times in fact.\n\nIt's an excellent novel, both in the terms of a fiction book, and as a general introduction to the many types of Philosophy. I read it first whilst I was at college (about 16 years old), and it help my attention.\n\nI do recommend it if you are wanting a good read, or wanting to find out more about Philosophy but aren't wanting to be swamped by text books.
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Yes, I have read it, in fact if you look at my bio you'll see it listed.  Reading "don't take things personally" made me cry.  To think I had lived so long and set myself up for so much pain, when I read these words, it had a PROFOUND change on my thinking.  \n\nGreat read, and I work hard to make the agreements a way of life.  \n\nPeace.
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I also want to know who has read that book
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It's ok. It's a fairly quick read, so you don't need to invest too much time in it, and it's fairly interesting. The ideas and characters come up every now and then in conversation, so it's good to have read if for background.\n\nBasically, it's kind of an indictment on the lives and characters of the rich.
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yes!!! i have read the secret garden and I loved it! did you like it ?
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did the people who responded to this even read it??? haha\n\ni think it's hilarious...and so sad, yet so true.\n\ncheers!