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From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <MGilpatrick>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:00:04 -0700
This fits right in with our Konigsburg discussion.
Having the campers help in the crunch may be a tad unrealistic to picture in the real world, but in the world of this novel I was very relieved to see someone shake them out of their Mean Girl syndrome. They will be better people henceforward.
Would that more adults were hip to this and did so. Such kids are usually very slick in the presence of adults.)
I think it fits in the book because this kind of narcissistic behavior is exactly what is driving the yuppies to persecute these old people who have survived the constant changing of the neighborhood, only to face their biggest threat from gentrification. (I saw this syndrome all too often when I lived in Chicago.)
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Walla Walla Public Library
mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us
FAX: 509R7748
phone: 509R7E50 x 510
Message----From: BudNotBuddy at aol.com [mailto:BudNotBuddy at aol.com] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:08 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] THE OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE
With the perspective of a year's time well spent since first reading and rereading it, I still consider THE OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE the best book Elaine Konigsburg has ever written.
There will be those who will question the realism of what Jake compels his mother and the campers to do, what with liability laws, and the campers' formerly atrocious behavior, blah, blah, blah, but in the same way that Konigsburg has her characters insisting that there is an alternate perspective for looking at time spent and time saved, history is surely marked by heroic actions, large and small, that don't fit into anyone's neatly packaged ideas of the normal, the "right," or the safest thing to do. I'll call it "The Possible," and that is what I see in that scene.
Received on Tue 19 Oct 2004 08:00:04 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:00:04 -0700
This fits right in with our Konigsburg discussion.
Having the campers help in the crunch may be a tad unrealistic to picture in the real world, but in the world of this novel I was very relieved to see someone shake them out of their Mean Girl syndrome. They will be better people henceforward.
Would that more adults were hip to this and did so. Such kids are usually very slick in the presence of adults.)
I think it fits in the book because this kind of narcissistic behavior is exactly what is driving the yuppies to persecute these old people who have survived the constant changing of the neighborhood, only to face their biggest threat from gentrification. (I saw this syndrome all too often when I lived in Chicago.)
Mary Ann Gilpatrick
Walla Walla Public Library
mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us
FAX: 509R7748
phone: 509R7E50 x 510
Message----From: BudNotBuddy at aol.com [mailto:BudNotBuddy at aol.com] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:08 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] THE OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE
With the perspective of a year's time well spent since first reading and rereading it, I still consider THE OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE the best book Elaine Konigsburg has ever written.
There will be those who will question the realism of what Jake compels his mother and the campers to do, what with liability laws, and the campers' formerly atrocious behavior, blah, blah, blah, but in the same way that Konigsburg has her characters insisting that there is an alternate perspective for looking at time spent and time saved, history is surely marked by heroic actions, large and small, that don't fit into anyone's neatly packaged ideas of the normal, the "right," or the safest thing to do. I'll call it "The Possible," and that is what I see in that scene.
Received on Tue 19 Oct 2004 08:00:04 PM CDT
