is amazing.
and deep.
i read it in a class...
we had socratic seminars every week, and they turned into debates discussing this :]
did anyone else love it?
--i cried when tea cake died. (in the book. not the movie, though.)
“I was just wondering why you stabbed him. Not that I object.”
I'm teaching this in my literature class. The book is WAY better than the movie.
shareI've read the book. It's not a poor novel but its tendency towards sensational events and the lack of establishing a focussed, structured and sharp analysis of character, against the background of those events, marrs the impact of the novel in my view. At its best moments, however, it is serenely evocative of its sense of time and place. It also has an adventurous quality which, certainly in the first half of the novel, glides joyfully through the events of Janie's upbringing and young-adulthood.
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