tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post114911314636740919..comments2023-10-10T13:11:04.072-03:00Comments on and you miss, are no lady: RunawayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03892163910115601785noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149610981856834052006-06-06T13:23:00.000-03:002006-06-06T13:23:00.000-03:00Well. Indeed.Tundra huh? If you'd said ice field...Well. Indeed.<BR/><BR/>Tundra huh? If you'd said ice field, I would keep the books, club a seal, wear the fur, eat the meat, and burn the fat. Tundra's a little more difficult...Cricket on the Hearthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794777874474147436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149351977420373242006-06-03T13:26:00.000-03:002006-06-03T13:26:00.000-03:00Third option? I'm with Galileo on this one: "...I...Third option? I'm with Galileo on this one: "...I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use..."<BR/>Not to enshrine intellectual Christianity or debase folk Christianity. Just to say that burning books is a bad idea. It's like trying to eradicate the Church - all it does is make it spread. You ban a book, it's a surefire way to make your kids want to read it. Education - that's the answer. Moral, spiritual, and intellectual. Personally I think that teaching kids to burn what we don't agree with is pretty much in line with the violence in the very books people are trying to censor.Cricket on the Hearthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794777874474147436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149310506899432792006-06-03T01:55:00.000-03:002006-06-03T01:55:00.000-03:00In most cases the book-banners/burners are school ...In most cases the book-banners/burners are school boards - Mississippi is a hotbead, they ban everything - and various misguided Leagues of good intention. The reasons listed for banning The Giver have included violence, sexuality, euthenasia, and pro-communism. There are a lot of paranoid people running around thinking that the best way to keep a kid from turning violent is to pretend that violence doesn't exist: children shouldn't read about it, talk about it, or think about it (and if they do, we'll burn them too). Tragically, the Paranoids very often find themselves in positions of power. That's how books like The Giver get banned. <BR/>I wonder if, instead of forcing our children to ignore society's problems, we should maybe educate them?Cricket on the Hearthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794777874474147436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149283013689136192006-06-02T18:16:00.000-03:002006-06-02T18:16:00.000-03:00Well, precisely - that was the rant I almost got i...Well, precisely - that was the rant I almost got into. This is exactly how intelligent book-banning squads are. The society in the book promotes communism; that's enough for a lot of idiots to claim that the book itself promotes communism, despite a blatant message to the contrary. So let's burn it, as burning books is the key to making sure our kids grow up right. <BR/><BR/>The plot hole is this: before Jonas' Ceremony of Twelve, his mother says to his little sister Lily that when she becomes an Eight her 'comfort object' - a stuffed elephant - will be taken away. After the ceremony and quite a bit later on in the book, Jonas tries to convey a memory to her of a murdered elephant - he does this while she is holding her comfort object. The trouble is that by this time Lily is very clearly an Eight. Why does she still have the comfort object?<BR/><BR/>Oh, Lois Lowry... why messest thou with our minds?Cricket on the Hearthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794777874474147436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149180925596606272006-06-01T13:55:00.000-03:002006-06-01T13:55:00.000-03:00I like The Giver too - I agree with you Andrew - w...I like The Giver too - I agree with you Andrew - would be a cool movie.<BR/><BR/>Also loved My Side of the Mountain. Oh Grade Six!<BR/><BR/>The Life of Pi though, beats them all. I'm in LOVE with that book - it is absolutely phenomenal.Rebecca Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441338787660747184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149148444167840442006-06-01T04:54:00.000-03:002006-06-01T04:54:00.000-03:00Hey hey,My Side of the Mountain literally (literar...Hey hey,<BR/><BR/>My Side of the Mountain literally (literarily?) shaped a large part of my grade 5 year. Loved it! Andrew, we have a signed copy of The Giver here in Yemen with us. Ruth just re-read it and found a plot hole. She was quite happy with herself:) In other news, did you know many places want to ban it (some have) as communist literature? Goes to show the brilliance of... oh never mind. <BR/><BR/>So Evelyn, got the travel bug eh? I hear the Canadian Hadramout University College wants more teachers over in southern Yemen:) Think about it... Bin Laden's homeland, refuge of escaped Al Qaeda members, a coastline sandwiched between the two piracy capitals of the world... all this in one of the Middle East's poorest countries - imagine! <BR/>You'd have to be CRAZY not to come here. <BR/><BR/>...or was it the other way around?Cricket on the Hearthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12794777874474147436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15152939.post-1149123428687477862006-05-31T21:57:00.000-03:002006-05-31T21:57:00.000-03:00Hey Ev'y re read the other posts - cause I comment...Hey Ev'y re read the other posts - cause I commented on all of them I think... you see there were a lot of posts and I didn't have time to reply to each one before the next one showed up... <BR/><BR/>yeesh slow downShannon Skaftehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00814137933574985440noreply@blogger.com