Tuesday, September 16, 2014
I find the way the book portrays all the sisters as being the same to be very interesting. My key line (or paragraph as the case may be) is on page 39, "Instead, Cecilia writes of her sisters and herself as a single entity. It's often difficult to identify which sister she's talking about, and many strange sentences conjure in the reader's mind an image of a mythical creature with ten legs and five heads..." I wonder whether Cecilia intended to do this, or if the boys are imagining it to a degree based on their past beliefs of the sisters.
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I think this point is very interesting. I don't think it is the book that portrays the sisters as being the same, but rather the characters.
ReplyDeleteThe narrators do very much see the girls as a "single entity" instead of individuals--that image will come up again and again. (And yes, the mythical "monster" thing will as well.) By doing this, the boys dehumanize the girls, as we talked about in class the other day. What is the impact on the girls, if they realize this? How might a person react to being ignored or unrecognized? Why do the boys see them as inhuman (even mythical)? Is this complimentary or insulting?
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