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From: Tattercoat at aol.com <Tattercoat>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:28:37 EDT
My reading of SLAP YOUR SIDES was greatly affected by 9/11. It is easy to be a pacifist when war is long ago and far away--and isn't WW II just that for our students? But there is nothing abstract about friends and neighbors being killed, our own country attacked. Our values are being tested in a very different context today than they were as recently as when M. E. Kerr was writing this book. She does a wonderful job of holding and exploring the ambiguities that are always there in the human condition but that so easily get misappropriated in the glaring light of national trauma.
I'm looking forward to my college students' discussion of this book this fall.
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University
Received on Fri 07 Jun 2002 02:28:37 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:28:37 EDT
My reading of SLAP YOUR SIDES was greatly affected by 9/11. It is easy to be a pacifist when war is long ago and far away--and isn't WW II just that for our students? But there is nothing abstract about friends and neighbors being killed, our own country attacked. Our values are being tested in a very different context today than they were as recently as when M. E. Kerr was writing this book. She does a wonderful job of holding and exploring the ambiguities that are always there in the human condition but that so easily get misappropriated in the glaring light of national trauma.
I'm looking forward to my college students' discussion of this book this fall.
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University
Received on Fri 07 Jun 2002 02:28:37 PM CDT
