Well I haven't gotten my book yet, so though I would love to be posting about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I can't. But thinking about what to write here made me think about the general truths of literacy. One of the first things that came to mind was how ethical our socratic seminars got this year! (And when they weren't ethical, they were mainly about pop culture.)I suppose this isn't new, books have been outlining the rights and wrongs forver; they're stories, they originate from fables and myths and all that good stuff. But I find it interesting how literature pretty much depends on such themes to make it interesting, or "good" in the minds of the critiquing master minds.
Must literature always reveal something about human nature? I'm surprised that things are still being "realized" by people, that new plots can develop..I think it's actually surprising that we can still find it interesting.
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I think thats a really interesting point. When most plots boil down, theyre all really similar- the best books are the ones that question moral belifs because there are so many variations of the same basic moral. Good versus evil for example has an endless number of possibile plot variations.
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