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From: fondrie_at_gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:02:03 -0600
Mr. Tingle:
One of my favorite moments in the story (besides the "snowmonster" scene) is when Old Man is assigning duties at the new site in the swamp:
* "Young women will look for wild onions and berries. Older men will build houses, lean-tos. Winter is coming. We will spend the day working and have our first meal tonight."*
* "What will the older women do?" a young man asked. Everyone grew very quiet. No one looked at him. They were too embarrassed. Old Man smiled.*
* "The older women do not need me to tell them what to do," he said. *(p. 20)
I appreciate how you convey that very awkward moment (which we've probably all experienced at least once in our lifetimes) in just a few brief lines, not to mention how you express the status of the older women without saying anything at all.
Can you tell us a little about matriarchal and patriarchal roles at that time? I was surprised that the young man wouldn't have been aware of that already.
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:02:03 -0600
Mr. Tingle:
One of my favorite moments in the story (besides the "snowmonster" scene) is when Old Man is assigning duties at the new site in the swamp:
* "Young women will look for wild onions and berries. Older men will build houses, lean-tos. Winter is coming. We will spend the day working and have our first meal tonight."*
* "What will the older women do?" a young man asked. Everyone grew very quiet. No one looked at him. They were too embarrassed. Old Man smiled.*
* "The older women do not need me to tell them what to do," he said. *(p. 20)
I appreciate how you convey that very awkward moment (which we've probably all experienced at least once in our lifetimes) in just a few brief lines, not to mention how you express the status of the older women without saying anything at all.
Can you tell us a little about matriarchal and patriarchal roles at that time? I was surprised that the young man wouldn't have been aware of that already.
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