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Book wild at heart summary12/25/2023 I’m going to assume she’d been working on it for several years, and it is – despite the incredible maturity of the style – a coming of age novel. First, it was first published in 1943, so she was 23. I think that I don’t necessarily have all the right “tools” at my disposal for a truly thoughtful approach to this book but I want to think about it within a few different contexts. Not that this is necessarily a horrible thing, but I’m shocked to find how much trouble I had getting through this-Lispector’s first novel-compared to the other novels I’ve read (and very much enjoyed). In all truth, reading Near to the Wild Heart was a frustrating reading experience. "Christianity should bring about change in you, not convict you to act the same.Clarice Lispector – Near to the Wild Heart Where do we get our validation as a man from? The woman in our lives? Our work? Our friends? Our God? We ended by talking about the last part of the chapter, about validation. The majority responded with it is definitely not just ok, but healthy. This led down a path some men are uncomfortable doing down.is it ok for men to cry? Not just during a war movie or Old Yeller, I mean really let your emotions out. We talked about attacks on our strength - at work, at home, at Church, in our everyday lives. He realized that The Beauty is "The grand prize if you are truly a man." We talked about a revelation that Eldridge had about the effect a beautiful woman had on a man, and how women are used in anything that companies want to market to men. This brought up the very relevant issue of the way boys are viewed and treated nowadays at school, and the speed at which they are labeled "add" or "adhd" (this was touched on in Chapter 1). Most agreed with the advice he gave his son, saying that they would have said the same thing. We then moved into a discussion of reactions to the advice Eldridge gave his son Blaine on how to deal with a bully at school.
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