tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post2378888966820850494..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Parents try to ban Blackfeet novelRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-3039712581461271732007-04-20T17:28:00.000-07:002007-04-20T17:28:00.000-07:00ok....To start off with, I am not even going to ad...ok....<BR/>To start off with, I am not even going to address the issue of native or non-native author, because I don't know if the author is native, if he is recounting the real story of Frank Fools Crow or what. <BR/><BR/>Seems to me that I remember reading <BR/>"Brave New World." An integral part of the book was drug taking and "orgy-porgy." Sex and drugs. Required reading. <BR/><BR/>The AP classes read "1984." That book CENTERS on sexual freedom, albeit it is a metaphor, but it is depicted frequently. And I believe Winston's first gut-reaction to Julia, before actually having talked to her, was that she was a member of the Thought Police. Of course she was a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (souds like our friend Dighans)--but we find out it's just a cover. Winston's first impulse towards her was to, I believe, rape and kill her. Now I just read 1984, so this is still fairly fresh in my memory. Again, required reading. <BR/><BR/>Another book I read as a Sophmore--"Slaughterhouse Five." A good third of the novel, Billy Pilgrim is in a Tralfamadorian zoo exhibit, with another human, a female--Montana Wildhack--a porn star. They are naked throughout, and I seem to remember some sex (actually the Tralfamadorians force them to have sex) in there--OH NO!! required reading. <BR/><BR/>Not to mention, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and a whole slew of other authors that spoke frankly about sex. <BR/><BR/>Seems that a double standard might be at play here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com