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All the "shoot your pet" choices have failed to make it to the semi-finalists! It was a tough round, but Alan's euthanized animal kingdom beat Old Yeller's rabies.
Regarding the first question, not to tip the scales, but I recalled two pieces of information that might be useful: the cat is one of the few characters who does not starve to death in the apocalypse; when Sounder's face gets shot off, the boy puts part of his ear under his pillow and prays for him to recover.
Incidentally, it's already out of the competition, but I found an excerpt from the Scottish dog-on-dog massacre. And Hoppin's young dog, who three hours before had been the children's tender playmate, now fiendish to look on, dragged after the huddle up the hill. Back the mob rolled on her. When it was passed, she lay quite still, grinning; a handful of tawny hair and flesh in her dead mouth.
Have fun, folks!
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Regarding the first question, not to tip the scales, but I recalled two pieces of information that might be useful: the cat is one of the few characters who does not starve to death in the apocalypse; when Sounder's face gets shot off, the boy puts part of his ear under his pillow and prays for him to recover.
Incidentally, it's already out of the competition, but I found an excerpt from the Scottish dog-on-dog massacre. And Hoppin's young dog, who three hours before had been the children's tender playmate, now fiendish to look on, dragged after the huddle up the hill. Back the mob rolled on her. When it was passed, she lay quite still, grinning; a handful of tawny hair and flesh in her dead mouth.
Have fun, folks!
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What is this, they think they're trying to prepare us for the cruelty of the real world, or something? The grief and horror has to be pounded in early? Like we hadn't noticed already?? What do they have against GOOD books? Mark Twain for instance, it's actually okay, yet they keep trying to BAN that shit. And why do they never, never never EVER consider having you read some-- gasp! shock! amazement!-- sci fi? Why is it never anybody current or relevant, but just crappy Victorian type authors who are fucking DEAD??? And then some Chaucer? They actually expect high school kids to have the patience to even try to GET Chaucer? They expect to teach us cultural and literary appreciation by flinging the world's most depressive and/or unintelligible crap at us?? *cries*
I'm trying to decide between the stuff in the polls but the only answer I can come up with is option C: A world that actually expects kids to read this bloody spume.
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best typo ever?
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But I'm not sure most writers of depressing books want depressing books to be all that teens read. It's someone on the curriculum level who puts all the depressing books together and forgets to balance things out more. I mean, we all need to read lighter books mixed in with the darker ones, or else, like, go insane.
This is why I think schools should teach A Midsummer Night's Dream before they teach Romeo and Juliet. (But keep the Chaucer. Chaucer isn't depressing. :-))
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And my schools were in favor of doing A Midsummer Night's Dream. So much so that I had it in class THREE TIMES. :-/ MY vote's for Much Ado About Nothing.
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Or Twelfth Night or The Tempest, for that matter. :-)
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2. INSANE.
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2. I went with the first, because, with enough therapy, one could recover from the second. Maybe.
People SELL this stuff? And READ IT??
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And give it awards!
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I still say the orangutans was robbed.
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The thing about the apocalypse, though, in that book at least, is that it isn't anyone's fault, unlike racism.
And the orangutans. :-)
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And humans can, if desperate enough, eat cat food themselves ...
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