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Reading Between, Around and Through the Lines
Section I: The Concrete Experience
In the process of compiling the literary works I intended to include in this project, I began to notice a common thread that connected the works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry that I generally choose to read. That common tie that binds these books together is that they all seem to center, in one form or another, around the theme of oppression. Perhaps this is because I have some deep psychological need to diffuse the power struggles I experience within myself by gleaning insight from the pages of someone else's experience. Or, perhaps it is merely because I have a predisposition to "root for the underdog". Regardless of the reason, be it simple or complex, almost everything I read seems to engage a "David and Goliath" scenario.
Take for example, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. There is no doubt in my mind that the mental institution that comprises the primary setting of the......

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