Hi! I just wanted to add my $.02. I'm from Canada and although the story
is set in L.A. I think that people from many areas urban and rural are
capable of understanding and fully comprehending the book. One of the
things that I found interesting after reading the book was when I traveled
to different places imagining which stage they were in and how long it
could take them to reach the state that L.A. had reached in the book.
Lisa
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> From: Kate Bolin <kbolin@MAILHOST.TCS.TULANE.EDU>
> To: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
> Subject: Re: Parable of the Sower
> Date: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 8:00 AM
>
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Kate Williams wrote:
>
> > The U of Toledo is considering Parable as the book every freshman this
fall
> > reads and gets to discuss with one or another faculty -- its a new
program
> > they are considering. Part of it would be to invite Butler to visit
too.
> > Ideas welcome.
> >
> Wow......I admit to being insanely jealous.
>
> As far as I remember, Butler's a bit of a hermit. The only
reason
> we got her to visit our high school was because we were in Carson, CA,
and
> one of the teachers could pick her up from Pasadena, CA, and she could
get
> a ride with him.
>
> Here at Tulane University, we're hoping to get Butler for the
Zale
> Writer-in-Residence program. It would be a big shift from what we've had
> the past few years...
>
> As far as students discussing the novel, I tend to think that
> students from Los Angeles will understand it much better than students
> from another area. It is definitely a Los Angeles novel. When I read
it,
> I was stunned by the sheer "Los Angeles-ness" of it. I tend to think
that
> the idea of suburban life is really a Los Angeles concept. The sprawling
> one-story bungalows covering the entire county........
> As a result, students from the area will probably have a
different
> understanding of the novel than other students. "Parable of the Sower"
> strikes a chord with everyone from Los Angeles who reads it. They
realize
> that this is their hometown, and this could happen.
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