Man, I was ten when I read it, and I bawled like a baby. Well, first it confused the heck out of me, and then I asked the rabbi about it (I had borrowed the book from her, and then she had a very disconcerting conversation with my mother. The lack of memory led to strange unanticipated things like me being a ten-year-old Jewish girl who had never heard about the Holocaust. They explained it to me, and then I bawled like a baby. Of course, a couple years later, I had to read Night for class, and that made me want to slit my wrists.
Even middle grade, I mean A:tLA is for the same age range, and it's a nice happy cartoon about child abuse and genocide. And there's all those books where the dog dies at the end.
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Date: 2011-06-10 03:20 am (UTC)Even middle grade, I mean A:tLA is for the same age range, and it's a nice happy cartoon about child abuse and genocide. And there's all those books where the dog dies at the end.
I have been courageously restraining myself.