Sunday, February 6, 2011
The Book
This piece is ridiculous; I definitely didn't expect the book to be covered with human skin, that's disgusting. Besides that, there's a very chilling beauty behind it. It reminds me of innocent childhood or innocent love. When your a child, the person doesn't know of the horrors and hardships that he/she will face in the future. A child can simply enjoy life and play imaginary games all day without a care in the world, just like the book before was just a nice gathering of blank papers that could have innocent thoughts written on them. Even love is innocent at first until somebody cheats or life throws problems that trouble a relationship, but until then love is innocent and flirtatious. Maybe the main idea of this book symbolizes a human because a person has all these thoughts and feelings inside them (the writing in the book) and then the skin on the outside represents the simple form of a human. It was a definite realization of horror that I felt when I first read this piece.
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Interesting thoughts. I'm anxious to talk about this one in class. People have universally been repelled by it. You are more generous. :)
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"Besides that, there's a very chilling beauty behind it. It reminds me of innocent childhood or innocent love."
I love this. I didn't think of this when I read the poem, so it's so cool to hear a different perspective on it. :) Good job, Jacey! :)