Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narration greets, and scares, the reader first. Ilana is a woman of the old country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes the metaphor for Ilana's life and spirituality, though the connection remains weak due to Budnitz's style problems. She writes, "I did not tell...
...western values through the interplay between Ilana and Sashie. However, an analysis of dishtowels, tea leaves and hospitalization from two perspectives destroys the potential depth of this exchange. Budnitz tries to be too profound in her simplification, taking on too large a human theme within too small of a context...
...endless refrain that men had turned into 'animals' were the martial equivalent of the carnival mask." Such radical interpretations might fit certain situations and the experiences of individual soldiers, but when Bourke tries to generalize, her argument collapses. The quotations she cites often seem to be taken out of context and deformed by her interpretations...
...smoke continues to drift over, Putnam approaches the lane for his next bowl, staring down the white pins in the florescent light. Returning to his seat as the pins are reset again, Putnam gets on a roll, so to speak, about the historical context of our social capital problem...
...Inserting the historical example into the context of his modern argument, Putnam says, "If you're around now, some people might say, and some people thought I was saying, to my horror: 'life was much nicer back in the fifties, would all women please report to the kitchen and turn off the television...