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I almost always end up doing my blogs on the class discussion we have, but I do want to talk about The Other Side of the Hedge. I liked that there were some sort of Biblical illusions that where possible, with the garden being much like The Garden of Eden. I guess what I took out of it was that it wasn’t necessarily supposed to be strictly Biblical, but that it had those elements without that being its sole purpose. I think the main focus is the idea of progress and how it’s this never ending cycle. Humankind can’t really escape this need to continually progress, and that’s what the narrator proves when he returns back to the road. In the garden there is no progress and that’s why when he enters his pedometer stops because there is no real progress to track. There is mention that there was a gun that someone brought in and it wouldn’t work, and I thought it possible that it was meant to subtly reference the same concept that progress can’t be made in the garden. What I’m getting at is when you shoot a gun there’s an end and a purpose to it and I think that’s why it won’t work there. That’s just my take on what happened.

The Bear is hard for me to follow, I’m not opposed to hunting by any means but I don’t fully understand the lingo. With its whole hunting theme it’s just not my cup of tea, I first started it and I was reminded of reading The Nick Adams Stories in high school and I absolutely hated that semester of English where we read all these hunting, fishing, stereo- typically masculine stories that, might I add, had very few female characters at all. Sorry to go off about Nick Adams but I really hated that little unit we did… just know I have a very serious nickname for them that I shall not say here.

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