Message from cnorth

[Anonymous]

As I say again and again, I often struggle to figure out how I will use historical references and incidents in my English class, but as I read John Dower's essay, I immediately began to think of a novel my AP students read: Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible. Now that novel takes place in the Congo, but there are so many similarities in the influx of Westerners, and the difference between what the natives want or live with and what the white Europeans decree to be acceptable or necessary for survival. The whaling aspects will also be relevant to today's environmental issues as there are still battles being fought over who can take what from the oceans, and the impact.