>author is heavyhanded with the symbolism >ends up directly

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>>8633939

Bradbury. Fuck Bradbury.

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desu

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inspiration for this thread
one of his stories is about a man who's miserable until he creates an idol to worship and then in the last line the narrator is like "that's when i realized man would never be happy to be his own master, he must have someone to serve"

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I was disappointed that butchers crossing did this several times. It is a good comfy book, but not as good as stoner.

>>8633939
>author is pushing a message
>resolution of the book runs counter to the message or ends with implication that its ok when X does it but not when you do it

>>8633939
what is "never let me go"?

>implying this is bad
>who is Spenser

Slaughterhouse 5 does this with the maternity ward couple who has no kids, then he breaks the 4th wall and tell the reader to consider the meaning of that. I yelled at that book a couple of times during the last 50 pages

>>8633939
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga does this a lot, but for that reason I think it'd be pretty good for teaching kids about symbolism.