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Millennium Approaches 1.3: Difference between revisions
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Even when the scene opens to the introduction of Harper, one can tell that she is going to be a major mouthpiece for Kushner in this story. Her opening lines, " People who are left alone... sit...imagining...beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart" (Kushner 22). This line alone sums up the destructions of the world that Kushner writes into the the story. The dying, beautiful system is the American dream. The idea that America is a perfect country with an unselfish government is an uninformed, innocent thought. All people are imperfect and a government by the people has to be imperfect. Old systems falling apart has mainly to do with Joe's internal conlflict with his homosexual preferances. He does not want to sin as a gay man, but he can not help how he feels. | |||
The short scene with Mr. Lies, the travel agent, will lead later to a theme about the angels. In short, Mr. Lies presses Harper to move, to take a vacation. She does not, but she does want to. | |||
==Study Questions== | ==Study Questions== | ||
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#How many years is it until the third millennium? | #How many years is it until the third millennium? | ||
#What is Mr. Lies job title? | #What is Mr. Lies job title? | ||
#What does Mr. Lies recommend to cure the weird things happening to Harper? | |||
#Who enters the elevator as Mr. Lies vanishes? | #Who enters the elevator as Mr. Lies vanishes? | ||
#What does this person call Harper? Is this odd? | |||
#Why does Harper want to go to Antarctica? | #Why does Harper want to go to Antarctica? | ||
#What is Harper addicted to? | #What is Harper addicted to? | ||