{"id":1115,"date":"2025-10-16T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:54:47","slug":"sophia-nelsons-reading-questions-for-oct-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Nelson’s Reading Questions for Oct. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the first section “The Beach”, we meet a young couple, a young woman and a disabled veteran, similar to Nellie and Roy from Not So Quiet<\/em>, as they sit on the beach. Borden gives us both their inner monologues, showing us the strain on their relationship, especially with the young man’s “temptation to make her suffer.” Why do you think he indulges in it? Is it right? Why do you think the narrator says “He loved her. He hated her”? And why does the girl stay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the section “Moonlight”, we meet three personifications of abstract concepts: Pain, Life, and Death\u2014a monster, a sick creature, and an angel. Why does Borden choose to personify them this way? Later on, Pain and her actions get an extended description. Why focus on Pain specifically, and as a harlot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout The Forbidden Zone<\/em>, the narrator will insist “They are not\/no longer men”. She will even say in “Moonlight” that one cannot be a woman in the hospital. Why is this dehumanization of all humanity emphasized, and why is gender involved as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the first section “The Beach”, we meet a young couple, a young woman and a disabled veteran, similar to Nellie and Roy from Not So Quiet, as they sit on the beach. Borden gives us both their inner monologues, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}