Books: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Downsiders by Neal Shuster
The Outsiders by Susan E. Hinton
Statement: I think the author held off a really long time telling what the Clan was about. I thought this was interesting because it did not allow for me to form my own opinions about whether the Clan was a good thing for Baby or not, though it leads the reader to think that it is not good. It seems gang-like, but I thought there was more to it, which there was.
Question: I found that the censorship was distracting. When someone would presumably swear, he would write that he said "a word", or when anything sexual happened, it would be "a gesture" or he felt "something somewhere." I did not understand why he sort of beat around the bush. Is this because he wanted to censor swearing or sexual material, or because he wanted to leave more imagination t the reader?
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