Nerdy isn't the word, eager is more like it. I'm eager to start my classes and get going, get closer to having my own classroom. Grrrr.
So I bought a few textbooks last week and have already ... read a lengthy article, finished a children's novel, and watched a film. And enjoyed all of it! The two that are very worth mentioning: The Giver by Lois Lowry and Rabbit-Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce.
I wept through several scenes of Rabbit-Proof Fence. Three young aboriginal half caste girls are torn from their mother and grandmother and placed in a camp thousands of miles away. They escape and walk back home. The film covers alot of territory - Australian colonial history, the stolen generation, eugenics, oppression - but it was the connection these girls had with their mother and grandmother that I could most identify with. Though I'm not sure if I could survive the walk, my family is undoubtedly worth walking home to. And so, to comfort myself and reassure my sense of self, I'm home with my ladies this weekend. It's the place to be.
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The Giver made me cry. Would I have been emotionally ready for it as a (pre?) teen, its intended audience? Perhaps the young are more mature these days--or I am still v. naive!
The Giver made me cry. I don't know whether I would have understood or reacted to it the same way had I read it as a (pre) teen, its intended audience. Are the young more mature these days, or am I still v. naive?
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