Leaves of Grass

53Watch it awake.

No plot to follow, only a voice that will not treat a body as a shame.

The review

Leaves of Grass is not a story you finish and retell at bedtime. Walt Whitman kept revising it. He names trades, bodies, and a country he wants held in one voice. The body is not a shame in this book. I should say that before a teen opens a section, because some houses are ready and some are not.

The catalog of work is the praise. It is not a plot, so don't wait for a lesson to land the way a chapter does. A teen can take a piece, not the whole shelf. I like the trades better than the boast. The republic he sings is enormous, and it never shows you one kitchen where somebody has to get up tomorrow.

Journal

Keep Leaves of Grass in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

8
Industry
The catalog of trades is the praise, not scenery behind a hero.
2
Household
Bodies are sung; a marriage or a child is not the life here.
4
Piety
The body is not a shame here, and conscience is not the brake.
5
Courage
He kept revising a book that puts the body out in the open.
8
Republic
He tries to hold a whole country inside one voice.
3
Temperance
Nothing here puts wanting down; the body is welcomed, not checked.
6
Truth
He names trades and bodies instead of hiding them in a plot.
6
Stewardship
What remains is a book of poems he would not stop revising.

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Treasure Island

56Watch it awake.

Courage is real. The treasure is not a good inheritance, and the rum is not a joke.

The review

Jim Hawkins is brave. That part is clean. He is also a boy on a ship where the most likable man is a murderer, and the prize at the end is coins that nobody earned. The story knows Silver is dangerous. It still has too much fun with him.

Read it for the courage and for the warning. A charming man who will change sides for a chest is not a model. Do not hand a child the rum, the killing, and the treasure as if they were one adventure.

Journal

Keep Treasure Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Pride and Prejudice

70 instead of 56

Pride and Prejudice is still a story film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is household: Marriage is the whole question, and Wickham's charm is not allowed to be free.