Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

I just read your new thread and didn’t want to respond there, leaving it, I hope, for others to respond. Here I will say that I hope you know, or learn that it is okay for you to be different from your mother in any and every way. I like the ways you are different from her, from not being critical of others (and less and less of yourself as you tame your inner bully), to the way you dress. And all ways in between.

You are indeed different from her, from all that you shared and I am glad that you are. I also read your reply about running- good information there, and thorough!

Regarding your last post here, I agree with: ” that is the thing i don’t like about english class, the teachers tend to dissect the book into so many parts and literary terms, that the book looses its meaning in a wider scope.”- it is about focusing on the trees (or the leaves of the trees, the details) and not seeing the forest )the “wider scope” as you put it).

Brave New World is the title of the novel then. I am tempted to google the title, read the summary of the plot etc. – doing it yourself, reading a summary of the plot, the theme online can help you figure things out. Sometimes the way a story is written is difficult to understand. Difficult because the author made it difficult, or the style is old English or too detailed, so if you read the summaries online and then go back to the novel, it can make it easier for you to follow the plot and figure out the theme, the characters etc.

Thank you so much for writing that I am an inspirational and compassionate friend. Coming from an inspirational and compassionate Earth Angel makes it very special.

anita