http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/opinion/when-a-hurricane-strands-those-in-need.html?ref=editorials
An editorial recently published in the New York Times talks about the devastation that Hurricane Sandy has brought upon New York City and it's citizens. The author effectively uses literary techniques such as pejorative diction, details, and syntax to show how they think the city did not make enough effort to move it's citizens out of harms way.
In the second paragraph in this editorial, I saw three examples of strong diction when the author stated, "The terrible — and avoidable — result was that many frail or disabled occupants of public housing were left..." (Lines 8-10). When the author uses the word "avoidable" in that sentence, it shows how the author thinks that the city could have done so much more to help the citizens. If the author had chosen to leave the word out, it would have changed the whole meaning of the sentence, and this word also helps put emphasis on the other two examples of strong diction that I saw, the words "frail" and "disabled". If the author had replaced these two words with something a little more weak, such as "sick", getting across their point would not have been so effective. Saying that those occupants were frail and disabled showed their need for help.
I saw a lot of details in this editorial, mainly in the form of statistics. In the third paragraph, the author talks about how many residents the New York City Housing Authority has to look after, and how many people went without heat and hot water after the storm. The author stated, "With almost 650,000 residents to look after, the New York City Housing Authority has long been underfinanced..." to show how this is a problem that should have been taken care of long before a crisis occurred. Another example I saw was when the author said, "...aftermath of a storm that wiped out electricity, heat and hot water for 77,000 people in 402 buildings..." and this shows the true magnitude and severity of the aftermath of the storm.
One example of syntax that really put some emphasis on the author's point was in the second paragraph, when the author said, "The terrible — and avoidable — result...". The dashes that were put around the word avoidable really put emphasis on it. To me, it seemed like the thing to focus on in the sentence. It showed that, although the situation was terrible, it also could have been avoided, and that's the important part.
Overall, I thought that the author effectively used these three literary techniques put emphasis on certain parts of this editorial and show how they felt about this certain topic.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Open Prompt #4
1990. Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.
One very famous play that comes to mind when thinking about conflicts between a parent and their child, is Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman doesn't approve of his son, Biff's, actions. Biff doesn't believe that Willy, Happy, his brother, and he can make it out in the business world. These father-son conflicts began at a young age, and have become worse since then. The conflict between Willy and Biff puts a huge weight on the rest of the family, and forces the whole family to see the truth about who they really are.
Willy and Biff's problems started after Biff graduated high school when Biff went to Willy, who was on a business trip in Boston, about failing his math class. This was when he caught Willy having an affair. Things weren't the same since. It wasn't just the fact that Willy was cheating on Linda, Biff's mother, though. Biff felt betrayed by the person he loved most in the world. He looked up to his father so much, and on that day when he found out his father's secret, he realized that everything his father had told him since he was young, was a lie. Willy was not as good a man as he talked himself up to be.
The affair was definitely a source of the conflict, but another source would be how Willy tried to teach Biff and his brother, Happy, his superficial idea of the American Dream since they were young. Willy always told them that as long as they were well-liked, then everything would work out for them in life, and they would be rich. He also told the boys that they were the best out there and no one could tell them what to do. Biff believed this, but it backfired on him. He realized that he is nothing special, he is just an ordinary man. Biff even says to his father in the play, that what Willy had been telling him was all wrong, and that this dream of his should stop before someone gets hurt.
Biff and Willy disagreed on a lot of things, but the main one, was about Biff going out West and working. Willy had always dreamed that his sons would both become big, successful businessmen. Although Happy did go into business, he wasn't too successful. When Biff came back from out west, he tried to please his father by trying to get a job in the city, but when it didn't workout, it blew up in everyone's face. The whole family was forced to face the truth that the Loman men, were indeed "low men" and there was no escaping it. This put a lot of pressure on Linda too because she was constantly trying to mend Biff and Willy's relationship, but ended up just getting pushed to the side.
All in all, Biff and Willy's put a tremendous amount of pressure on the family, and pushed them to the breaking point. It showed that Willy's idea of the American Dream is very superficial and unrealistic. They shouldn't have tried to be what they were not just to be well-liked, because that clearly did not help any of them in achieving their ideal American Dream.
One very famous play that comes to mind when thinking about conflicts between a parent and their child, is Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman doesn't approve of his son, Biff's, actions. Biff doesn't believe that Willy, Happy, his brother, and he can make it out in the business world. These father-son conflicts began at a young age, and have become worse since then. The conflict between Willy and Biff puts a huge weight on the rest of the family, and forces the whole family to see the truth about who they really are.
Willy and Biff's problems started after Biff graduated high school when Biff went to Willy, who was on a business trip in Boston, about failing his math class. This was when he caught Willy having an affair. Things weren't the same since. It wasn't just the fact that Willy was cheating on Linda, Biff's mother, though. Biff felt betrayed by the person he loved most in the world. He looked up to his father so much, and on that day when he found out his father's secret, he realized that everything his father had told him since he was young, was a lie. Willy was not as good a man as he talked himself up to be.
The affair was definitely a source of the conflict, but another source would be how Willy tried to teach Biff and his brother, Happy, his superficial idea of the American Dream since they were young. Willy always told them that as long as they were well-liked, then everything would work out for them in life, and they would be rich. He also told the boys that they were the best out there and no one could tell them what to do. Biff believed this, but it backfired on him. He realized that he is nothing special, he is just an ordinary man. Biff even says to his father in the play, that what Willy had been telling him was all wrong, and that this dream of his should stop before someone gets hurt.
Biff and Willy disagreed on a lot of things, but the main one, was about Biff going out West and working. Willy had always dreamed that his sons would both become big, successful businessmen. Although Happy did go into business, he wasn't too successful. When Biff came back from out west, he tried to please his father by trying to get a job in the city, but when it didn't workout, it blew up in everyone's face. The whole family was forced to face the truth that the Loman men, were indeed "low men" and there was no escaping it. This put a lot of pressure on Linda too because she was constantly trying to mend Biff and Willy's relationship, but ended up just getting pushed to the side.
All in all, Biff and Willy's put a tremendous amount of pressure on the family, and pushed them to the breaking point. It showed that Willy's idea of the American Dream is very superficial and unrealistic. They shouldn't have tried to be what they were not just to be well-liked, because that clearly did not help any of them in achieving their ideal American Dream.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Summary and Analysis of Death of a Salesman
Author: Arthur Miller- he was a prominent figure in the American theatre. He wrote many plays such as The Crucible and All My Sons.
Setting: This play mainly takes place in New York. Most of the time they are in the Loman's kitchen, but Boston, and the office is also where a few scenes take place. This takes place after World War 2.
Characters:
Willy Loman- constantly searching through his past, cannot accept the fact that he is a "low man" and his failures as a father and husband. He is materialistic, and only cares about whether he is "well liked" by others. He seems as though he favors Biff over Happy, and disregards his wife Linda. He is the typical tragic hero.
Biff Loman- One of Willy and Linda's sons. Was a popular athlete in high school, but turned out unsuccessful in his adult life. He is the only one out of his entire family that acknowledges the fact that he has failed in the business world and that they should not be there. Willy has talked him up his entire life and has made him think that he is one of the best men out there, when that is not the case. This ultimately sets Biff up for failure, and Biff recognizes that. Willy on the other hand, does not. Biff spends a lot of his time searching for his true identity.
Happy Loman- Basically a younger version of Willy. He is very determined to make it in the business world, even though that is not where they belong. He shares many of the same qualities as Willy, such as always talking himself up to people, and not accepting that he is a "low man". He also really only cares about the women.
Linda Loman- She seems like the voice of reason. She is always protecting Willy from the truth, just trying to keep her family together. She wants everyone to get along and isn't always treated the best by Willy. Yet she is loyal and respects him more than anything. Probably even more than her sons.
Charley- Willy and Linda's next door neighbor. He is successful and recognizes Willy's failures when it comes to his job. He always tries to help Willy, although they don't always get along.
Bernard- Biff's high school friend. He was very into his studies unlike Biff in high school. He turned out to be very successful, and basically the son that Willy had always wanted.
Ben- Willy's older brother who went to Africa and discovered diamonds. Willy looks up to him very much.
The Woman- Willy's mistress in Boston
Howard- Willy's boss who has known Willy his whole life, but still does not treat Willy with respect and doesn't have the patience to deal with him.
Plot: The play starts out with Willy coming home from traveling, and Linda seems very worried about him and rushes to his side to help. Their two sons, Biff and Happy, are home. Biff has just gotten back from out West where he was jumping from job to job, and was in prison for a few months too. Willy and him are not on the best terms at this point in the play. Happy is unsuccessful as well, although he thinks highly of himself, he is just an assistant to an assistant. Willy starts to talk to Linda about Biff, saying that he is a bum and that he's lazy. He wonders what went wrong in Biff's life. Willy reverts into a flashback and starts to think about the times when Biff and Happy were in high school. This was when Biff was on the football team, and was very well liked. Bernard, Biff's friend, keeps coming up saying that they must study for math, or else the professor will fail Biff. Willy and Biff disregard Bernard, as if it doesn't matter. All that matters for them is that they are well liked. Willy also has a flashback in this time about the woman he had an affair with in Boston. He snaps out of it when Charley, their neighbor, comes by to play some cards. Willy again goes back into another flashback about his brother Ben. They talk about many things, such as their mother's death and going to Alaska. It is made quite clear here that Willy idolizes Ben very much and wanted to go find Alaska with him. By this time, Charley gets very annoyed and leaves and Willy wanders out to the yard, saying things to Linda about his diamond watch fob that Ben gave him years ago. The boys talk to Linda with concern about Willy, and she informs them that he is in need of some serious help and that he has tried/is trying to kill himself. This is when the boys agree to step it up and help him out. So Biff agrees to go to Oliver to get a job, and Willy is going to Howard to try to get a job in New York instead of traveling.
The next day, everyone is in a good mood until Willy gets to the office and Howard fires him. He says that Willy needs a break and is too tired. Willy is heartbroken by this. This causes Willy to go back into yet another flashback about Biff. This time he was taking Biff to his biggest football game ever. You can see here how their relationship used to be great. He snaps out of it when he gets to Charley's office, where he has been going to get his pay for several weeks now. He finds Bernard, and sees how successful he is. He asks Bernard why Biff isn't as successful as him and is very emotional. He takes his money from Charley, and before leaving, says that he is probably worth more dead than alive.
That evening he meets his two sons at Frank's Chop House for dinner, when Biff tries to tell him that he stole Oliver's fountain pen and was ignored by Oliver, Willy gets very angry. He storms off to the bathroom where he has a flashback of his falling out with Biff when Biff caught him with the woman in Boston.
Biff and Happy leave Willy alone, and come home to find him planting seeds in the garden. They don't know this, but Willy is actually "talking" to Ben about how Biff would get $20,000 of insurance if Willy died. Linda, Willy and the two boys have a huge fight that results in Willy realizing that Biff has loved him the whole time. But all Biff wanted Willy to do was to let go of this phony dream he had. They all decide to go to bed, when they hear the car crash, and it was Willy. He had committed suicide. In the end, they have a funeral where no one but Willy's family and Charley and Bernard show up.
Miller's Style: There was no point of view in this play. I did see a lot of tone shifting, though. I saw this mainly with Willy. It seems as though whenever he is talking to his sons about business or getting money, he has a very happy and interested tone, but if something happens, like if Linda interrupts or says something, his tone automatically shifts to angry and upset. Something that was interesting about this play was that Willy is constantly going into the past with "flashbacks" or memories. There is no warning that this is happening, so sometimes the present and the past sometimes run together. That was something I hadn't seen in a play before.
I saw a lot of symbols in this play. One of them was the seeds that Willy always wants to plant out in the garden. I thought these symbolized Willy's hope for some better future, or that his dreams might one day come true. I think it is also worth noting that these plants will be growing and still there after he passes, and maybe that symbolizes that something of him will be left behind for his family. Another symbol was diamonds. These diamonds symbolize the wealth that Willy wants, and his failure has a salesman because these diamonds brought his brother Ben wealth, but is what Willy is still longing to get. Next was the stockings. These stockings remind Willy of the affair he had with a women while he was in Boston and his falling out with Biff. They symbolize betrayal of his family. One last thing that I thought was a symbol was the West. I thought that symbolized freedom and opportunity. Where they really belonged.
Memorable Quotes:
Willy: "Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground" (pg. 96).
Willy said this after the falling out at the restaurant with Biff and Happy. He starts talking about buying and planting seeds when he gets home. This shows that his life did not go the way he had planned, and he is afraid that he has nothing to show for his family or for all of his life's work as a salesman. I think that by planting these seeds, he thinks that after his death, he is leaving something behind for his family and he will be remembered as the successful man he thinks he is.
Willy: "Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I'm in the house. It gets me nervous. I can't tell you. Please" (pg. 55).
When Willy says this to Linda, it shows that he doesn't like to see the fact that he can't provide new stockings for Linda and that she has to wear old, torn up ones because he gave the new stockings to the women he was having an affair with. I think this bothers him because he is reminded of the affair, but more importantly he is reminded of what drove Biff away.
Theme: Willy's version of the American Dream, that superficial qualities such as being well-liked, won't get you very far in life.
Support: This whole play basically revolves around the idea that if you are well-liked, then you will go far in this world. This is what Willy had been telling his sons for years and years before Biff finally realized that being well liked isn't all that matters. You can see in the plot that Willy has not been as successful as he thinks, and he isn't as well liked as he thinks either. An example of this would be at his funeral, he said hundreds would show up from all over, but only his family and neighbors did. Also, he would pick on Bernard when he was younger because he was a "nerd" and not as well liked as Biff. The ironic thing was that Bernard focused on what was important, and good things basically stopped happening to Biff after the age of 17. Biff realized that there was more to life than being well liked and you should do what you love. He wanted to go out West, but Willy disapproved, but that's where they all really belong. Not in the business world, but doing something out West. Biff said to his father that they are all just a dime a dozen, and that there is nothing special about them. This is true because they are no more successful or well liked than anyone else, but they are struggling more than anyone.
Tone also supports this theme because throughout the play, I saw a lot of shifts in tone. One tone I saw in particular was Willy being a little arrogant at times. He would always say to his sons that no one would make a fool of him, and that he was very well liked and respected in the city. This was not true, because if it was, he would have been much more successful.
Setting: This play mainly takes place in New York. Most of the time they are in the Loman's kitchen, but Boston, and the office is also where a few scenes take place. This takes place after World War 2.
Characters:
Willy Loman- constantly searching through his past, cannot accept the fact that he is a "low man" and his failures as a father and husband. He is materialistic, and only cares about whether he is "well liked" by others. He seems as though he favors Biff over Happy, and disregards his wife Linda. He is the typical tragic hero.
Biff Loman- One of Willy and Linda's sons. Was a popular athlete in high school, but turned out unsuccessful in his adult life. He is the only one out of his entire family that acknowledges the fact that he has failed in the business world and that they should not be there. Willy has talked him up his entire life and has made him think that he is one of the best men out there, when that is not the case. This ultimately sets Biff up for failure, and Biff recognizes that. Willy on the other hand, does not. Biff spends a lot of his time searching for his true identity.
Happy Loman- Basically a younger version of Willy. He is very determined to make it in the business world, even though that is not where they belong. He shares many of the same qualities as Willy, such as always talking himself up to people, and not accepting that he is a "low man". He also really only cares about the women.
Linda Loman- She seems like the voice of reason. She is always protecting Willy from the truth, just trying to keep her family together. She wants everyone to get along and isn't always treated the best by Willy. Yet she is loyal and respects him more than anything. Probably even more than her sons.
Charley- Willy and Linda's next door neighbor. He is successful and recognizes Willy's failures when it comes to his job. He always tries to help Willy, although they don't always get along.
Bernard- Biff's high school friend. He was very into his studies unlike Biff in high school. He turned out to be very successful, and basically the son that Willy had always wanted.
Ben- Willy's older brother who went to Africa and discovered diamonds. Willy looks up to him very much.
The Woman- Willy's mistress in Boston
Howard- Willy's boss who has known Willy his whole life, but still does not treat Willy with respect and doesn't have the patience to deal with him.
Plot: The play starts out with Willy coming home from traveling, and Linda seems very worried about him and rushes to his side to help. Their two sons, Biff and Happy, are home. Biff has just gotten back from out West where he was jumping from job to job, and was in prison for a few months too. Willy and him are not on the best terms at this point in the play. Happy is unsuccessful as well, although he thinks highly of himself, he is just an assistant to an assistant. Willy starts to talk to Linda about Biff, saying that he is a bum and that he's lazy. He wonders what went wrong in Biff's life. Willy reverts into a flashback and starts to think about the times when Biff and Happy were in high school. This was when Biff was on the football team, and was very well liked. Bernard, Biff's friend, keeps coming up saying that they must study for math, or else the professor will fail Biff. Willy and Biff disregard Bernard, as if it doesn't matter. All that matters for them is that they are well liked. Willy also has a flashback in this time about the woman he had an affair with in Boston. He snaps out of it when Charley, their neighbor, comes by to play some cards. Willy again goes back into another flashback about his brother Ben. They talk about many things, such as their mother's death and going to Alaska. It is made quite clear here that Willy idolizes Ben very much and wanted to go find Alaska with him. By this time, Charley gets very annoyed and leaves and Willy wanders out to the yard, saying things to Linda about his diamond watch fob that Ben gave him years ago. The boys talk to Linda with concern about Willy, and she informs them that he is in need of some serious help and that he has tried/is trying to kill himself. This is when the boys agree to step it up and help him out. So Biff agrees to go to Oliver to get a job, and Willy is going to Howard to try to get a job in New York instead of traveling.
The next day, everyone is in a good mood until Willy gets to the office and Howard fires him. He says that Willy needs a break and is too tired. Willy is heartbroken by this. This causes Willy to go back into yet another flashback about Biff. This time he was taking Biff to his biggest football game ever. You can see here how their relationship used to be great. He snaps out of it when he gets to Charley's office, where he has been going to get his pay for several weeks now. He finds Bernard, and sees how successful he is. He asks Bernard why Biff isn't as successful as him and is very emotional. He takes his money from Charley, and before leaving, says that he is probably worth more dead than alive.
That evening he meets his two sons at Frank's Chop House for dinner, when Biff tries to tell him that he stole Oliver's fountain pen and was ignored by Oliver, Willy gets very angry. He storms off to the bathroom where he has a flashback of his falling out with Biff when Biff caught him with the woman in Boston.
Biff and Happy leave Willy alone, and come home to find him planting seeds in the garden. They don't know this, but Willy is actually "talking" to Ben about how Biff would get $20,000 of insurance if Willy died. Linda, Willy and the two boys have a huge fight that results in Willy realizing that Biff has loved him the whole time. But all Biff wanted Willy to do was to let go of this phony dream he had. They all decide to go to bed, when they hear the car crash, and it was Willy. He had committed suicide. In the end, they have a funeral where no one but Willy's family and Charley and Bernard show up.
Miller's Style: There was no point of view in this play. I did see a lot of tone shifting, though. I saw this mainly with Willy. It seems as though whenever he is talking to his sons about business or getting money, he has a very happy and interested tone, but if something happens, like if Linda interrupts or says something, his tone automatically shifts to angry and upset. Something that was interesting about this play was that Willy is constantly going into the past with "flashbacks" or memories. There is no warning that this is happening, so sometimes the present and the past sometimes run together. That was something I hadn't seen in a play before.
I saw a lot of symbols in this play. One of them was the seeds that Willy always wants to plant out in the garden. I thought these symbolized Willy's hope for some better future, or that his dreams might one day come true. I think it is also worth noting that these plants will be growing and still there after he passes, and maybe that symbolizes that something of him will be left behind for his family. Another symbol was diamonds. These diamonds symbolize the wealth that Willy wants, and his failure has a salesman because these diamonds brought his brother Ben wealth, but is what Willy is still longing to get. Next was the stockings. These stockings remind Willy of the affair he had with a women while he was in Boston and his falling out with Biff. They symbolize betrayal of his family. One last thing that I thought was a symbol was the West. I thought that symbolized freedom and opportunity. Where they really belonged.
Memorable Quotes:
Willy: "Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground" (pg. 96).
Willy said this after the falling out at the restaurant with Biff and Happy. He starts talking about buying and planting seeds when he gets home. This shows that his life did not go the way he had planned, and he is afraid that he has nothing to show for his family or for all of his life's work as a salesman. I think that by planting these seeds, he thinks that after his death, he is leaving something behind for his family and he will be remembered as the successful man he thinks he is.
Willy: "Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I'm in the house. It gets me nervous. I can't tell you. Please" (pg. 55).
When Willy says this to Linda, it shows that he doesn't like to see the fact that he can't provide new stockings for Linda and that she has to wear old, torn up ones because he gave the new stockings to the women he was having an affair with. I think this bothers him because he is reminded of the affair, but more importantly he is reminded of what drove Biff away.
Theme: Willy's version of the American Dream, that superficial qualities such as being well-liked, won't get you very far in life.
Support: This whole play basically revolves around the idea that if you are well-liked, then you will go far in this world. This is what Willy had been telling his sons for years and years before Biff finally realized that being well liked isn't all that matters. You can see in the plot that Willy has not been as successful as he thinks, and he isn't as well liked as he thinks either. An example of this would be at his funeral, he said hundreds would show up from all over, but only his family and neighbors did. Also, he would pick on Bernard when he was younger because he was a "nerd" and not as well liked as Biff. The ironic thing was that Bernard focused on what was important, and good things basically stopped happening to Biff after the age of 17. Biff realized that there was more to life than being well liked and you should do what you love. He wanted to go out West, but Willy disapproved, but that's where they all really belong. Not in the business world, but doing something out West. Biff said to his father that they are all just a dime a dozen, and that there is nothing special about them. This is true because they are no more successful or well liked than anyone else, but they are struggling more than anyone.
Tone also supports this theme because throughout the play, I saw a lot of shifts in tone. One tone I saw in particular was Willy being a little arrogant at times. He would always say to his sons that no one would make a fool of him, and that he was very well liked and respected in the city. This was not true, because if it was, he would have been much more successful.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Response to Course Material #4
We have covered a lot of material in class in the last few weeks. We have finished up the play Death of a Salesman and have had many conversations about analyzing it and figuring out what everything means. These conversations have helped me a lot because some people bring up ideas that I have never thought of before, and then it helps my understanding of the text as a whole. Another thing that we did that helped me was reading the commentaries on the play. Although they were lengthy, I found them kind of interesting. They proposed a lot of ideas about the play that I never thought of before. I remember one thing that I found very interesting was in one of the commentaries, The Commodity Comes Home to Roost, when they talked about Willy's affair. They said that Willy had the affair, not because he was unhappy or lonely, but because someone in the business world was finally choosing him over his opponents. I had never thought of this, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense. So reading those commentaries and writing about them definitely helped out, especially with the annotating part, too.
Something that we finished up right after Thanksgiving break was watching the movie Death of a Salesman, while following along in the book. It was interesting to see what the director kept from the original and what he cut out. Some of the things that he chose to leave out, like long conversations between Linda and Biff about Willy, seemed important to me so I wasn't really sure why he would cut that out. I do think the director did a good job with the movie overall though, such as Willy's flashbacks being always being around the daytime when it was light out, and having the tense scenes with the all of the fighting going on be during the night when it was dark out. That showed the better times in Willy's life, or when he was happier and how things weren't so good in the present for him. This was also a topic we discussed in class.
The most recent thing that we started doing in class was reading William Shakespeare's Hamlet. We haven't gotten too far into yet, but it's pretty good. I have to admit, I'm having a hard time trying to keep track of which character is related to who, and stuff like that. It is helping me straighten things out though when we stop to discuss every few scenes. This way I feel like if I'm not understanding things, then we can go over it before we move on.
Something that we finished up right after Thanksgiving break was watching the movie Death of a Salesman, while following along in the book. It was interesting to see what the director kept from the original and what he cut out. Some of the things that he chose to leave out, like long conversations between Linda and Biff about Willy, seemed important to me so I wasn't really sure why he would cut that out. I do think the director did a good job with the movie overall though, such as Willy's flashbacks being always being around the daytime when it was light out, and having the tense scenes with the all of the fighting going on be during the night when it was dark out. That showed the better times in Willy's life, or when he was happier and how things weren't so good in the present for him. This was also a topic we discussed in class.
The most recent thing that we started doing in class was reading William Shakespeare's Hamlet. We haven't gotten too far into yet, but it's pretty good. I have to admit, I'm having a hard time trying to keep track of which character is related to who, and stuff like that. It is helping me straighten things out though when we stop to discuss every few scenes. This way I feel like if I'm not understanding things, then we can go over it before we move on.
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