Isnt it amazing when your own child blows your literary mind? - TopicsExpress



          

Isnt it amazing when your own child blows your literary mind? My daughter is reading THE KNOWN WORLD by Edward P. Jones in her English class. This has long been one of my favorite novels. Eyrna pointed a passage out to me in which a former slave is asked to show his manumission papers to the exact same group of patrollers he has shown his papers to on his way home every night. And this one night, one of the patrollers eats the free mans papers and sells him to a passing slaver. In this book paper is used as an objective correlative, says my kid. To show the absurdity and unfairness of the slavery laws. I think she has been eavesdropping on my writing group.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:27:34 +0000

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