Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Once Upon a Time
I feel like this was a sarcastic story trying to get back at the people who said Gordimer should write a children's story. She thinks that she "'ought' not to write anything." Therefore, the author gives in to write a "children's" story. This piece is definitely not something that should be read to little children. Especially at the end of the story, the author describes in detail what happens to the little boy. I would not want my children to read a story like this.
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Make sure that you don't mistake the children's story she wrote as giving in to the request. She merely created a story to calm herself down, and IRONICALLY it was the type of story she'd just said she wouldn't write. It was sort of subconscious....or something.
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