(And not only because I have a story which intertwines with the three poems!)
Most of the enjoyment is that, before I even click on a new item, I /know/ that it's depicting a world which is /different/ than ours, and trying much harder to maintain social cohesion. A world where schools don't seem to have metal detectors at every entrance, not because they are living like ostriches, but because the early, early interventions in the forties (anticipating the baby boom becoming school age, rather than dragging their feet, for example) has kept school populations /functional/ at the very least. Add to that changing opinions on child nutrition, exercise, child psychology, etc. and the small gap of 1945 becomes a /large/ difference in day-to-day life.
Hannah /did/ make mistakes in the way she handled her part of the argument, but I consider it very akin to Danso falling and breaking an arm-- because Helen /suggested/ the activity he was NOT prepared for, was NOT properly trained for, and felt like he could NOT say NO to. Pressure like that is VERY bad for teens, and Hannah's Mama Bear reaction is FULLY understandable in that light.
Oddly, I'm not left /happy/ about the argument, either; I want to watch this /resolve/ itself, not just each having a say and the status quo continuing. (Because, frankly, Helen DID put Danso in a LOT of danger with her tactic, and she is MUCH older than he is. She should've recognized that he lacks the right training to be /ready/ to "fall into the deep end of the pool" as a swimming test.
So, it's a continuing thread, not a major bummer. My only worry is that IF Hannah seems to back down, it will send Danso in particular the message that Helen was "right" and HE was the one with a problem, or is otherwise incapable. There's an enormous difference between /untrained/ and /trained/ use of any skill, and he needs to be reminded of that, in MANY ways.
Sigh. Now I want to go back and reread it, just to "check" if I missed anything...
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Date: 2014-12-22 02:24 am (UTC)(And not only because I have a story which intertwines with the three poems!)
Most of the enjoyment is that, before I even click on a new item, I /know/ that it's depicting a world which is /different/ than ours, and trying much harder to maintain social cohesion. A world where schools don't seem to have metal detectors at every entrance, not because they are living like ostriches, but because the early, early interventions in the forties (anticipating the baby boom becoming school age, rather than dragging their feet, for example) has kept school populations /functional/ at the very least. Add to that changing opinions on child nutrition, exercise, child psychology, etc. and the small gap of 1945 becomes a /large/ difference in day-to-day life.
Hannah /did/ make mistakes in the way she handled her part of the argument, but I consider it very akin to Danso falling and breaking an arm-- because Helen /suggested/ the activity he was NOT prepared for, was NOT properly trained for, and felt like he could NOT say NO to. Pressure like that is VERY bad for teens, and Hannah's Mama Bear reaction is FULLY understandable in that light.
Oddly, I'm not left /happy/ about the argument, either; I want to watch this /resolve/ itself, not just each having a say and the status quo continuing. (Because, frankly, Helen DID put Danso in a LOT of danger with her tactic, and she is MUCH older than he is. She should've recognized that he lacks the right training to be /ready/ to "fall into the deep end of the pool" as a swimming test.
So, it's a continuing thread, not a major bummer. My only worry is that IF Hannah seems to back down, it will send Danso in particular the message that Helen was "right" and HE was the one with a problem, or is otherwise incapable. There's an enormous difference between /untrained/ and /trained/ use of any skill, and he needs to be reminded of that, in MANY ways.
Sigh. Now I want to go back and reread it, just to "check" if I missed anything...