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A Thousand Acres

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Book of the Month - Calendar
Name: Joshua Inman Title of Book: A Thousand Acres
Month: December Author: Jane Smiley
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Question of the Week: Why did you choose this book? Explain.
I decided to choose A Thousand Acres because the book seemed interesting and could have potential with it being a modern version of Shakespeare’s King Lear, but with the setting and plot around an Iowa farm. And even though the idea might seem strange on paper, it really depends on the execution (like Chains proved last month).
Book Choice Due! Title: A Thousand Acres
# Pages total: 367 Day 8
Question of the Week: Is this a “good” book so far? Why or why not?
Currently, I think that A Thousand Acres is, so …show more content…

What I mean is that the idea is about someone is having an amazing life, but serious or bad things happen to that person which could lead to emotional problems or, in King Lear’s case, insanity. Now, since I am halfway through A Thousand Acres, I can say there are some hints of King Lear. For example, one of our characters, named Ginny, is showing signs of a mental disorder, something along the lines of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and in the beginning, she seems happy and cheery, meaning that something had to happen for her to get emotional scars. But if we are looking for a genre, I would say either realistic fiction or domestic realism (which is the genre about 19th century novels popular with women, which the book kind of is), due to the fact that things like PTSD or abuse can happen, and it isn’t just in the Lifetime-movie-of-the-week or in a nightmare, things like this happen in real life. And the only people you wouldn’t acknowledge that fact are people under the age of 13 and rich people who have been pampered so much that they are unaware of the live of people who aren’t in their socio-economic

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