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Heston appears as though “he comes from another planet,” Blitz says, “but I believe that all of the characters are pushed. Ginny is pushed to feel like she??s unreal in her ambition and she??s hyper-articulate [in a way] that’s unreal...
...speak good enough Chinese for Americans,” commented another friend comfortingly, who, having emigrated from Shanghai to the U.S. when she was four and returned at 19, found herself in similar situations. She??s right, of course. Most of the Chinese I’ve met that were born or raised in the U.S. seem to—despite our sometimes atrocious accents—speak enough of the language to get around...
What is most interesting about the ending is that that Rowling has had it written for years, and she has said that she??s felt very little temptation to deviate from her plan. That means that all the maturity we have seen both Harry and his author develop over the last ten years, in the end, means nothing. The series’ ending shows the same tendency to sum up and smooth over that nagged at the first few novels, a tendency that Rowling had overcome by book four...
Duncan got hooked on the series at age 11, and can still recite the first line of the first book from memory. But now she??s 20 years old, well outside a children’s book’s intended audience...
...She??s a college student, so if anyone knows anyone in California, just to get the word out with them,” Daniel said. “I know that college students aren’t usually in tune with local news, for example, and they don’t watch it on TV or read local newspapers. If there are residents of California themselves, residents of Southern California, just getting the word out, that would be the best thing in terms of helping jog someone’s memory or anything like that...