[ SECRET POST #1981 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1981 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 68 secrets from Secret Submission Post #283.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[lyndis]

The book broke my heart, but for different reasons. I actually learned a lot from it. It was one of the first books I *had* to read in school, and I read it to my six-year-old sister and asked her all of my schoolwork questions I had done, too, just to get her opinions and to explain what things like foreshadowing were. (She's an awesome writer/reader now because of all that knowledge! Hah!)

Either way, certain things about the book brought up a lot of discussion in my family, because most of my siblings had to read that book, too, as they got into Jr. High. Like the bit about war-- to this day, I can't forget that scene, or the scene after where he sees his friends playing "war"--or the, "You are not starving, you will never BE starving!" line, because I never really thought about how much impact a word we use flippantly like "starving" can mean. I mean, people actually do starve...but we use it to say we're hungry. -_-

Great book, but it's still really depressing on so many levels and I think a part of its purpose was to show you this world that SEEMED perfect (but wasn't), to prove that a utopia is impossible (this is true), and that, at the end of the day, our imperfect world is better than a fake perfect one.

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The word "starving" has always been a little triggery for me due to some childhood abuse and I have friends who use it not only to mean slightly hungry but even just to describe a craving for a specific food. It always makes me shut down and just disconnect and I have no idea how to address it because not only do I not want to discuss it but I also don't want them to have to think about things like that.