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Ayak bağlamanın ayağın büyümesini önlemek için bir çocuk olarak yapıldığını düşünürdüm - şimdi kemiklerin kırılmasını ve ayağın ideal haline getirilmesi için ayağın ikiye katlanmasını içerdiğini öğrendim: daha küçük, sivri (ve fallik) şekil. Dahası, çoğu zaman Batı'da ayak bağlama hakkında konuştuğumuzda, bundan sadece moda gibi bir korse veya yüksek topuklu ayakkabılar gibi konuşuruz. Ancak kadınların bu geleneklere ekonomik olarak “bağlı” olduklarını ve uygun olmadıkları takdirde kesinlikle hizmetçi sınıfına tabi olacaklarını öğrendim.

Pulitzer Prize my ass. That being said, The Road was entirely gripping and heart-wrenching, how can one help but like it? It has all the essentials for modern fiction. 1) A gripping survival, post-apocalyptic tale (why are we so fascinated with this?), 2) A father and son bond 3) and easy/non committal read 4) an ending that is irresponsible and dramatically weak. Despite my candor, I did learn something of tolerance with this book. I am a reader/student entirely devoted to form within writing, so for an author to so blatantly break so many rules really irritated me at first (I know it sounds juvenile and closed-minded, but so many people write like this because they actually do not know how to write correctly), but as I let the pieces fall as they may, I was able to enjoy the purpose of the offensive sentence fragments and receive the tone via the form. And at the end of the day, I think the form is really the only thing I am taking away from this book. Totally over-hyped, but not a regretful read. Hilariously, some woman interrupted me on the bus while I was reading, and she said, "Do you like that book so far?" (in a tone obviously conveying her distaste)...and I replied that it was okay...and she scoffed and exclaimed, "Well, it's just terribly depressing." Since when did “it's too depressing" become an actual way to feel about art? Pardon my judgmental nature, (she was an idiot) but the bleak needs just as much a voice in our artistic influences as the lush.