Katherine Hjerpe

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JAB = not concerned with future of family, while Ursula's character will never stop trying to preserve it.

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Macondo, an old way of life left behind.

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JAB's miniature "globalization" expeditions & attitude cause the leadership's local focus to disappear & leave the town to fend for itself

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JAB and Ursula's juxtaposed reactions to Melquiades are interesting. Hostility versus awe

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@hjerpe347 Though Macondo's isolation makes Conrad's quote easily applicable here.

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Interested to see how book about Colombian village by Colombian author ties into "The American Novel."

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Always impressed by Marquez's magical way of writing — like a child looking at the world for the first time.

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@hollielf347 Later in the novel, Margie tells Ethan that he doesn't know Mary at all. Does he? Does she know him?

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role of religion v. supernatural in the novel??? Religious emphasis on #money and shift to belief in supernatural with the #talisman

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The future of Americans don't look too good with Allen and. depending on what happens to Ethan, possibly Ellen as well.

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@cevanceENGL347 And he reaps his reward as well as his guilt on the Fourth of July #DecayOfAmericanValues?

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"…feeling a little grand & helpless & lost, like cage bred birds set free, & frightened as freedom shows its teeth." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@ClaireR347 Steinbeck is perhaps my favorite author; he is simultaneously beautiful, tragic, hilarious, && moralistic — & somehow American.

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@soboeiro347 In this case, it's paired beside the "old money" of the Northeast — ppl don't want 2 give immigrants a piece of the pie.

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@soboeiro347 Additionally, Lee is my all-time favorite literary character. #xenophobia seems to be a theme Steinbeck likes to discuss….

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@soboeiro347 He seems to sympathize with Marullo to a large degree by showing his generosity and good deeds right b4 Ethan's betrayal

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@hjerpe347 And on that same page, the bank and money take on the religious descriptions. #ValueShift

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I find it fitting that as Ethan's morals deteriorate, he switches from religious to military imagery to describe his store shelves.

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Death is not the end in Faulkner's mock-odyssey. ♫ "Death Is Not The End" distopian_dream_grrl http://t.co/0AoinWDnpO #NowPlaying

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@ClaireR347 @hollielf347 Interesting, because I thought opposite! So much of the humor, irony and beauty come from the narration's chaos!