During the last section of reading for Girl, Woman, other, I had a fair few thoughts on a lot of the interactions. Reading Carole and Shirley’s interaction was really awkward, but I’m sure it was meant to be. Shirley being judgmental to the lesbians was very expected but still a little sad. The whole “I’m not transphobic I have trans friends” made me giggle honestly, and the prompt “you need to get more woke” from Amma just reminded me of interactions I’ve had with older people. I also genuinely despised the comment about not being able to read books by women by Penelope’s boyfriend. I think that people who do or don’t read things based on gender are really lame and closed minded. I also wasn’t a big fan of the 23&me segment for a bit, as someone who found out a lot about themselves from doing a 23&me test, but the fact that Penelope met Hattie because of it definitely redeemed it for me. It was a very sweet ending to a book I enjoyed a lot!
For the Goblin Market, I had read it before for Brit Lit, so I had a decent knowledge of the content going into it. I think I speak for most women when I say that the things described in this story are representative of some of our worst fears. I grew up in the city, so I was always trained with the stranger danger things, but I know that that doesn’t always work. I was looking into some of the meanings of the fruit, like crab-apples also meaning a person one doesn’t want to be around, representing the goblins, and the pomegranates representing the duality of life and death, like how the girls are alive, but their innocence was killed.
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