Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sackeyfio, whose father is Ghanaian and whose mother is Scottish, says that she was subject to a lot of harassment in high school because she had two white boyfriends at different times...
Maya Sen '00, whose mother is Mexican and whose father is Indian, says she encountered a problem her freshman year in high school, when she was going out with a white boy in Indiana...
...Emma Thompson was originally billed for the role, but Morissette is surprisingly appropriate. Rather than the wrathful God we hear Loki and Bartelby talk of during the beginning of the film, Morissette is a playfully foolish hippie. Don't worry; God isn't portrayed as a total goof: a mother's smile and a beatific demeanor balance Morissette's character, and exhibit an unconventional reverence for the role. She never speaks, but one can tell by Her presence that She is not something to be understood, and certainly not something to be feared...
...kind, matriarchal God reminds us that Bartelby's self-deification is something other than prideit is frustration with the fact that God loves him differently than She loves man. And we feel for Bartelby,, who is at last a soulful child, vying for the adoration of his mother...
...Grumbling is constant. Someone in the 20th Battalion has gone AWOL earlier in the day. And across from me a private, who is about to go home for a week because his mother died, is staring up at the underside of the bunk above and reading whatever someone has scribbled there: "The Army teaches you truth, and tells you lies." I feel sorry for him well past lights...