February 2012
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Chapters 4 & 5
The ending of this book leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The last chapter suggests that the cause of the suicides were due to chemical imbalances. This directs me away from my original focus of the conflict of parent/child relationships being the creation of their suicide. While I was more focused on the cause of the sister’s deaths, my view shifted more to the way the society reacts to...
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Chapter 3
“We just want to live. If anyone would let us.” (128)
This instantly stood out to me when reading this chapter. One of the girls is talking about just how much their parents restrain them from everyday life. By keeping the Libson girls locked in a house and unable to face the outside world, they have become more and more stressed as well as depressed.
“Jerry Burden found the following doodle: a...
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A Modest Proposal
Jonathon Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal” is directly related to the concept of politics. He intelligently uses satire to point out our consumption of the poor. In this essay, Swift proposes the upper class solve their hunger through the consumption of poor children. While he is not being literal about the proposal, he is showing how the rich receive benefits at the cost of the poor, which is all...
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Wikipedia
For my Wikipedia hyperlink research I chose to look at the Grammy’s page. Most of the links used here are just simply links to other Wikipedia pages. These are used to help the reader further understand the text and uses examples of different categories mentioned. The contents box filled with hyperlinks is very helpful. When looking for specific information the links are able to bring you to the...
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Chapters 1 & 2
The beginning of The Virgin Suicides caught me off guard. While I knew the book was obviously about suicide, I did not expect to be thrown into plot so fast. One girl, Cecilia, attempts to kill herself twice in gruesome ways, which makes me wonder why such a young girl would feel the need to do this to herself. One of the topics I am starting to move towards is accepting death. Cecilia is able to...
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