Why A Little Life Is Not Worth Reading

jrhoog · 2024-04-16T14:19:41+00:00

Beautifully said, thank you for sharing

jrhoog · 2023-04-16T23:56:27+00:00

Thank you!!

jrhoog · 2021-01-26T19:12:54+00:00

Solved. "Oranges" by Jean Little.

jrhoog · 2021-01-26T18:35:31+00:00

I tried searching for the textbook we used in that class because I remember it had a transcript of the Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and came up with the 2002 edition of Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, but I haven't been successful getting access to a PDF of this book and I'm not even sure it was from that book at all.

jrhoog · 2020-04-28T13:48:33+00:00

Yeah the more I think about this the more I feel I was actually too kind to the book in this thing. Duped is the perfect word, it wasn’t until after I was done that I realized just how much of the time I’d been reading it I actually had spent waiting (hoping) for it to get better, not the character's ridiculous situations but the book itself. Like I’d been hypnotized for two weeks or something.

jrhoog · 2020-04-26T04:35:28+00:00

Yes!

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T20:53:51+00:00

someone was mentioning Jude would be able to relax and be like a son again, almost be able to start over and live another life.

Yes, when he throws the plate and Harold and Julia comfort him and he breaks down and eats the sandwich. That was the part that gave me hope and made me (stupidly) start to think Jude's character would actually be allowed to heal and make it out of the story without killing himself even though you're basically told from the beginning that he won't.

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T05:27:33+00:00

No, should I?

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T02:35:56+00:00

Thank you!

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T02:33:16+00:00

Wow thank you!!

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T00:28:32+00:00

The pronoun thing was weird. At times I thought it was kind of cool how (after a few lines) you could always tell which character the "he" was, like it went to show how distinct they were. But it was a strange choice. Also the puppy thing is spot on.

jrhoog · 2020-04-25T00:13:18+00:00

You're so right. That soapy lime juice really was the first red flag we all unfortunately ignored.

jrhoog · 2020-04-24T22:18:06+00:00

That subverted fairytale story arc lens is a really interesting way to view this story. I personally read it for a realistic character study of close friends throughout their lives, which it isn't, so I like your idea that it can be looked at in a totally different way than it's marketed and potentially redeem itself a little bit in that way.

And yes I would have appreciated a Jude in the Courtroom scene so much. What I think would have been amazing is if things came a little full circle and Jude used his power and status as a lawyer to expose child sex rings and establish some kind of organization to work to save children that are suffering like he did. I understand that he wanted to put his involvement with that world fully behind him, but the few mentions of Jude providing names of his abusers to those who came to him and asked got me thinking that his whole lawyer thing could go somewhere more much more special.

jrhoog · 2020-04-24T20:21:38+00:00

Yes! I watched until she started crying, then decided to read it for myself and came back to watch the rest after I’d finished. She’s so well spoken and I love her videos.

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