Landscapes and Meanings
2016; National Council of Teachers of English; Volume: 63; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1943-2402
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
Resumomeasured statement of short, urgent pulses. At times it seemed he would break off into a whimper, an animal complaint, irregular and exhausted, but the rhythm held, the heightened beat, the washed pink sorrow in his face. There are two girls, Steffie and Denise: one helps with the cooking; the other looks at television, plays games, takes part in simulated catastrophes. There is the analytic teenager, Heinrich, confined in literalism. He is deft in argument: real issue is the kind of radiation that surrounds us every day. Your radio, your TV, your microwave oven, your power lines just outside the door, your radar speed-trap on the highway. For years they told us these low doses weren't dangerous. The narrator, who is the professor-father, observes Denise sprawling across a bed, her head on her arms, facing away from him. How many codes, he asks, counter-codes, social histories are contained in this simple posture?
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