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  • Project Hail Mary
    Political and Social themes

    I don’t know how many of you have seen it but apparently the author has posted something online about how nothing in his books are social commentary and he doesn’t want it to be social commentary and if you are seeing some sort of political underlying themes then it’s because you’re reading too much into it.

    I think that’s very interesting when you consider how much of this book is a social commentary because even the climate change thing in the classroom where some people told their child that the climate change isn’t real is a good example and on top of that the way that Grace was used for the purpose of humanity despite him not wanting to is social commentary and ultimately the way that stratt knew that because people are going to get restless in the coming years she was very likely going to go to jail or become a scape goat for the government that is social commentary and it’s a commentary of how political leaders treat the people who are trying to do good things because of their own self interest. All literature has an underlying message because literature is meant to portray a person’s character.

    Everything exists in a political context - Aristotle

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    gaylilreader
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    saw a review say andy weir cannot write and we need to stop pretending he can and i fully agree. i don’t trust any of you bitches anymore bc this was DIRE.

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    Having a hard time getting into Fiona’s chapters, I find myself rushing thru so that I can get back to Yale

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    Political and Social themes

    I don’t know how many of you have seen it but apparently the author has posted something online about how nothing in his books are social commentary and he doesn’t want it to be social commentary and if you are seeing some sort of political underlying themes then it’s because you’re reading too much into it.

    I think that’s very interesting when you consider how much of this book is a social commentary because even the climate change thing in the classroom where some people told their child that the climate change isn’t real is a good example and on top of that the way that Grace was used for the purpose of humanity despite him not wanting to is social commentary and ultimately the way that stratt knew that because people are going to get restless in the coming years she was very likely going to go to jail or become a scape goat for the government that is social commentary and it’s a commentary of how political leaders treat the people who are trying to do good things because of their own self interest. All literature has an underlying message because literature is meant to portray a person’s character.

    Everything exists in a political context - Aristotle

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    Sigrid Nunez is my comfort author. When I don’t know what I want to read, I just pick one of her books and it’s always a hit—never a miss. Her books feel like 6x6=36. Like Friday. Like 4 pm. You know what I mean, right?

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    do you know ugly any flower names?

    “So many other beautiful ones I can think of: anemone, lilac, azalea. Of course, there must be an exception. There are always exceptions. But though I’m not so keen about phlox, I can’t come up with a single really ugly flower name, can you?”

    i’ll start: rhododendron —is it a dinosaur? hortensia sounds like a disease. succulent (although not sure is it a flower or a plant) is an abhorrent word!

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