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What might have been and in many texts on rhetoric is a dry analysis full of rebarbative Greco-Latin terminology epizeuxis! Tournament of Books Will You Like Her? Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. George's frank dystopias do not rely on beauty or brutality or humanistic appeals to sell themselves. Just a vision and a ghoulish sense of humor. He is conducted north via the Underground Railroad to Concord, Massachusetts, where Emerson sets him up in a second cabin in Walden Woods and tasks him with keeping tabs on the hermit-philosopher down the way.

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During the year he spends in Concord, Samuel finds himself amid a community of famous intellectuals and abolitionists -- Emerson, Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne , and William Lloyd Garrison. In each volume the first-person narrator functions as a kind refractive lens, bending and blending together a generation of texts and ideas within a single mind, and yielding a spectrum of impressions on the development of American culture and identity.

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But the book does more than parrot various ideological positions. A Fugitive in Walden Woods bursts with intellectual energy, with moral urgency, and with human feeling. In this way the novel achieves the alchemy of good fiction through which philosophy takes on all the flaws and ennoblements of real, embodied life. For Samuel, abstract musing on Nature or Reality is a luxury that can distract from the actual substance and struggle of nature and reality.

Over and over, the text returns to this question: What function do philosophy and literature serve in the material world, where people suffer constantly and nature endures indifferently? Samuel, too, is full of contradiction. Part of him values their support and respect; he knows their attitudes are not mere performances. But, still in Walden Woods, Samuel is beholden to the protection and esteem of well-meaning white men; his fugitive status permits no illusion of independence.

What is he to make of self-reliance? That he should thank these men is preposterous.

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Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. Bad Marie has ratings and reviews. Greg said: For the second time in about as many weeks I've come across a book with gushing blurbs from well-.

Like them, I wish to be reliant on no one but myself. However, amid their disparate experiences, Samuel recognizes in Thoreau a kindred question: How am I to be, for myself and for others? I hesitate to pass any definitive judgment on this kind of narrative presumption a word which Lock himself uses to describe his relationship to the narrator , fraught as it is with a whole history of appropriation and exploitation.

Throughout the book Lock pays frequent homage to true accounts of slavery and escape by writers like Frederick Douglass , Henry Bibb , Solomon Northup , and Moses Roper , lifting up these accounts rather than trying to overwrite them with his own invention. The novel makes no attempt to compete with such narratives. Instead, it works to interrogate an intellectual tradition that was developing during the same period in a privileged Northern enclave by placing in conversation with those writers a person whose experience is drastically different from their own, and who could pose a worthy challenge to some of their deeply held notions of Nature and God and Soul and self-reliance.

An epigraph by Thoreau, from Walden , opens the subject: Several times later on in the novel, Samuel himself claims to speak for the men in his story, and gives his own defense for the presumption: Nonetheless, we do speak and write of others as if we have known them well.

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And yet they have written of them in the belief that we possess a common soul. So it is that I have found within me courage to speak of and for various persons met during my stay in Walden Woods as though I had sounded to the bottom of them.