tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post2389712507599558905..comments2023-09-07T04:49:10.648-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: Parable of the Sower and The 1980s Crack EpidemicAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-48436001469267231942011-03-13T10:52:39.444-07:002011-03-13T10:52:39.444-07:00Your discussion of Pyro and your discussion of Par...Your discussion of Pyro and your discussion of Paracetco both of have merit, but it bothers me that you don't really deal explicitly with differences as well as similarities between them. While Paracetco's birth defect issues might connect it to crack, they also connect it even more clearly (because it started as a prescription drug) to prescription drugs which causes waves of birth defects in the real world. Pyro, of course, has a more obvious and intuitive relationship with crack.<br /><br />All of that is kind of secondary, though. You do a fine job of connecting the drugs to crack, despite my skepticism about a couple of the details. But the most interesting part of your essay, the launching ground for the actual argument, is greatly underdeveloped: "In conclusion, it is evident in Butler’s writing that she is critiquing the government and the social structure of the United States in the 1980s."<br /><br />Really? What is that critique? Who is she attacking, how, and why? I think you're right, incidentally, but all you've done is established the background and claimed that she's making a critique. The interesting part is elaborating what it is, and possibly responding to it.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com