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   "Arindam Banerjee"  wrote in message   
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   > On Dec 17, 2:26 am, Dirk Thierbach    
   > After talking to you, I think it is not just wrong, it is unknowingly   
   > the most purely evil book I have ever read.  For it conceptually   
   > introduces and in the fashion of inevitability justifies the evil   
   > adults do, by moulding evil into the pure young mind.   
      
   Interesting.  The book haunts me still these many years after having read   
   it; I've always wondered if that is truly the way children would behave.  A   
   larger issue is how that book may have influenced my generation as parents:   
   namely, to take children seriously as having a conscienceness influenced   
   perhaps, but apart from their parents.   
   Of course Lewis' take was kinder and I think more realistic towards children   
   and their behavior in strange situations.  He depicted good and less useful   
   behavior, but the good in children far outshines the bad in his Narnia   
   series.   
   In retrospect, Golding's pessimism is horrific.  It seems to have said, kids   
   are basically bad, which in turn may have had the result of parents   
   accepting that children will do these things- boys will be boys, kind of   
   thing.   
   The entire subject of the influence of children's literature makes for great   
   discussion.  What _is_ good for children to read?  And their adult parents   
   along with them, now that I think of it?   
   Blessings,   
   Ann   
      
      
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