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Yes, I’m a little late. I have no excuse but I am sorry. I guess I got a little carried away with senioritis, and then felt bad because I actually have loved this class so much that I wanted to leave a blog post, even if it’s a really bad one. For a long time, I didn’t know what I wanted to talk about. I could talk about how unsatisfying the ending of Parable of the Sower was, and how I kind of hate that none of the books we read ever did anything to end the dystopia they were in. For example, Hunger Games is about the girl who eventually sets out to dismantle the dystopia she’s in and it works. In The Matrix , at the end of the first movie they tell the audience that they’ll continue to dismantle their dystopia, and I haven’t watched the other two movies, but I don’t have to to know that that there is going to be some change. But Parable of the Sower (PoS) doesn’t give me that inclination at all. I know there are two other books that I haven’t read, but I would’ve liked to have

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