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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Social Awareness # 4

       In the book that I am reading now, The Water Dancers by Terry Gamble, there is the issue of forbidden love, and I don't know what you would call it but the guy is haunted by battlefield memories.
       There is the rich family in the book, The Marches, and then there is the servant. The marches son is the kind of sun that has his whole life planned out for him by his parents. He's supposed to marry this one girl and inherit his family busisness. But after a plane crashes into a boat he was on he can't walk, he is hollow. The nurse his family has to take care of him, is a bad drunk and is never looking out for him, always drinking. So they let the maid, Rachel Winnapee, look after him. He is unexplainably dran to her and the story goes on.
       This boy is supposed to marry this one girl, but she breaks it off with him after he get's injured, and it is not allowed for him to fall in love with the help. So that is the one issue.
        The other is that since this guy is in the marines he is always having dreams and daydreams about his marine memories. All the bad ones. I think that this comes up in a lot of books, and in life to where it leads to issue of social pressure, which leads to possible suicide. This also a big issue because it's not really something that people can stop and it will keep going on because that is the way the world is, it's a cruel world, and messed up with all the problems that come with it.

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