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Story · Britain · 1891

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

35Leave it.

Adult only: the book calls her pure, and the blame is put on her anyway.

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Adult, and not a book I leave where a child can reach it. Tess is sent to claim kin, and the man of the house rapes her. I will not describe that. The book calls her a pure woman. The blame is put on her anyway. Being famous doesn't make that gentle.

The man she marries cannot bear the fact. His refusal is the blame a second time. The book tells that truth and still spends her. I wouldn't call it a comfort for anyone in this house.

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Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44 instead of 35

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is still a novel film, and it scores 44 instead of 35. What you gain is stewardship: The building outlasts the men who wreck one another.

The eight

3
Industry
She is sent to claim kin; that errand is the work her family gives her.
5
Household
She marries a man who cannot bear the fact, and the house fails her.
4
Piety
The book calls her a pure woman while the blame is put on her.
3
Courage
The husband will not bear the fact; the cost of that refusal is hers.
3
Republic
Kin send her out, and the blame that comes back is treated as hers.
2
Temperance
The man of the house is not stopped, and the blame is moved onto her.
6
Truth
It calls her pure, and the man she marries still cannot bear the fact.
2
Stewardship
She is left holding the blame; the marriage keeps nothing for her.

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The Three Musketeers

34Leave it.

Their loyalty is a pleasure, and the bodies are still a game to them.

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The loyalty is the fun, and I don't quite trust the fun. A poor Gascon joins three men who live by the sword. A woman in the plot is hunted for a piece of jewelry, with a queen's diamonds in that trouble. A teen can read it. I wouldn't offer it as proof that friendship excuses the rest.

I was amused, then sour. The fighting pleases them. That isn't a reason your kid should be pleased the same way. Read it for the four if you read it. Before the jokes settle, say the bodies are a game to them.

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Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44 instead of 34

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is still a novel film, and it scores 44 instead of 34. What you gain is stewardship: The building outlasts the men who wreck one another.

The eight

3
Industry
Four men live by the sword, a game more than a trade.
3
Household
A woman is hunted for jewelry, not lived with as a household.
2
Piety
Their loyalty never makes them regret that bodies are a game.
5
Courage
They risk bodies they treat as sport, over a queen's diamonds.
4
Republic
The debt that holds is to the four, not to the town.
2
Temperance
The fighting is the pleasure, and nothing in them curbs it.
6
Truth
The four stay loyal while a woman is hunted for jewelry.
2
Stewardship
They leave a game of bodies and a woman still in the chase.

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