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2007:04/15 Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin


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We had 8 active particpants and the average ranking was 4.25.

 

A very lively discussion ! The viewpoints about this story from what happened to the main character at the end, the "time of cognizance" of certain events for the characters to a complete 'conspiracy theory' were as varied as each of us.

 

I know I changed my mind several times during the course of the chat about what I thought.

 

The time of writing was very critical to the discussion acknowledging the way things were then vs. today.

 

Although we did not spend much time specifically on this, for some interesting reading regarding skin pigmentation I offer the following:

Full text of 2002 Scientific American Article entitled "Skin Deep":

http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/VitDGenScience/Jablonski%202002%20Skin%20color.pdf

Summary of several cited articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color

 

Check out the log to see who thought what about this as a 'chick story'

 

Another great Sunday Night !

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Log: http://koach.com/Attachments/Desirees_Baby_Log_4-15-07.zip

 

Individual Rankings for this story were: 5,5,5,4,4,4,4,3

Ranking Scale:

5

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