Mmmmm.... it's 3:31 AM and I am happily munching on cheese and crackers and reading one of the most engaging books in my library. Chapters 5 & 6 offered some respite after the crazy shenanigans of chapter 4, but wow, the characters are paying a heavy cost to save the wizarding world. Again I am struck by the allegory to post-War on Terror culture; the wizard folks who bury thier heads in the sand rather to stand for a cause, and the breeding of mistrust within a the Order. Anyway's Harry's people are hurting, but doing the best they can, and Hermione and Ron are proving once again to be the best friends ever.
I'm going to take a pee break before starting chapter 7, which looks pretty heavy...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I don't think the head in the sand issue is a post 9/11 one. There have been other brutal times that this has been true as well. It seems to rise when things are beginning to get bleak. Maybe we try to shield ourselves from the stress of the world around.
There are many head in the sand examples that I can think of stemming from WWII
1) The prelude to the war,- even though Hitler seemed to be looking to take over all of Europe it wasn't until Belgium was overtaken in a day that France (and hence Britain) got concerned.
2)People were disappearing all over Nazi controlled areas and since it wasn't their family members their wasn't concern over the Jews, Academics, Artists and others.
3) How long it took the US to get involved in the war (maybe not so much head in the sand as something else.
I am not saying that people don't have their head in the sand - I am just saying it is a common pattern to wars.
Post a Comment