 This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't...  A Feminist Ethic of Risk - Side 70av Sharon D. Welch - 1990 - 206 siderBegrenset visning - Om denne boken
 | Janice L. Doane, Devon L. Hodges - 2001 - 180 sider
...leave the reader contemplating events at a great distance as inevitable moments in a wheel of change: "This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain...live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter" (206). These sentences, among the last words of the narrator, now a Claudia McTeer with powers of omniscience,... | |
 | 2007 - 86 sider
...our town. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain...wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. FRIEDA. At least on the edge of our town, CLAUDIA. Among the garbage and the sunflowers of our town,... | |
 | Jacqueline Fulmer - 2007 - 220 sider
...thing we assassinated," the narrator Claudia delivers judgment on her community's failure to nurture, "we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course ..." (160). If the status quo, as perceived in the Barnard speech and in The Bluest Eye, dictates the... | |
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