![]() It's especially jarring, because this very scene, in which main character Jody's friend Fodder-wing is introduced, is remarkable in its ahead-of-its-time treatment of a person with a physical disability. ![]() I recognize now that my nine-year-old White self was privileged to just kind of blow past that for kids who may have been called that name, it wouldn't have been so easy. ![]() For example, in describing a pet raccoon, the narration reads: "A tiny black paw, like a n*****’s baby's hand, reached out." Seriously!? I honestly don't remember how I reacted to this kind of sentence at age nine, but reading it today makes me angry, because it's so unnecessary and mars what is otherwise an enduring work of writing that is both critically acclaimed and popular. Unfortunately, when a narrator uses objectionable language, even a 1930s narrator, it is somehow harder to accept than when such terms are spoken by a book's characters. ![]() Of course, this really is how the people in the book would have spoken at the time and place it was set. ![]()
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Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. With Kim Stanley Robinson he co-edited the Ecology-related symposium Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction (anth 2014). He began to publish criticism of genre interest with "'We Are the Walking Dead': Race, Time, and Survival in Zombie Narrative" (Fall 2010, Extrapolation). ![]() (? - ) US academic whose doctorate in literature is from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Assistant Professor of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, Milwaukee,Wisconsin, since 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's nothing new every time an adaptation bases its casting choices on something other than looks, fans of the source material aren't happy. One of the more recent controversies has been the online anger about Bella Ramsey being cast as Ellie in "The Last of Us," despite the fact that she looks different from the videogame character. ![]() Looking back at it today, there are some clear lessons to learn about casting in adaptations. The film, meanwhile, is not as closely tied to Red's perspective, and Freeman's charisma in the voiceovers helps to smooth things over, preventing the viewer from getting too wrapped up in figuring out how and why Red knows about this or that. It's written specifically from Red's first-person point of view, after all. ![]() While most of the same basic plot points happen in the novella, you can see Stephen King struggling at times to explain how Red knows about so much of what's going on with Andy in each part of the story. 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My new all-time favorite series. Book #4 in the gripping new series for fans of The Hunger Games or Divergent! ![]() ![]() ![]() I truly believe The Spectre is talking to me when he is actually talking to the Pastor. Next, Mark Waid certainly knows how to write simply but get the deep, complicated point across. ![]() I am actually having trouble fully expressing myself while describing his art and what it is capable of doing. ![]() I really get a sense of age and "world torn" emotion from every single one of the characters. Every single line and shape in this book is fantastic and deserves a detailed look. I re-read it in preparation for this thread and the discussion and really look forward to talking about it.įirst off, Alex Ross is a true artist. Alright, this book holds a special place in my heart. ![]() |