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A Publication of the Harper College Honors Society Fall 2003 - Issue three power of language; it's for that per- Yann Martel - 2001 Harcourt, inc. Diary of a Book Addict son starving for the feel of pulp and $14.00; 319 pages yearning for the smooth cadence of multiple best seller, including "The phrase 'antiquarian book- ink It relies on a reader's ability to Chicago Tribune & New York sellers' scares me somewhat, as I absorb what's taking place between Times. equate 'antique' with expensive. I the lines and knowing what's under- Man Booker Prize Winner am a poor writer with an antiquarian stood, yet left unsaid. ? / -^feB^r-j^ Life of Pi taste in books and all the things I After several months of cor- has nothing want are impossible to get over here respondence, Cecily Farr— a secre- to do with except in very expensive rare edi- tary working for Frank Doel the math. An tions, or in Barnes & Noble grimy, bookseller— secretly wrote to Indian child marked-up schoolboy copies." This Helene about how the staff had 'grows up in is the opening letter of a wonderful determined what she must look like. Ian Indian book by Helene Hanff called 84, "We love your letters and try to jzoo, and dis- Charing Cross Road, the address of a imagine what you look like. I've covers a secondhand bookstore tucked away decided that you're young, and very (deep affec- in London, where a New York sophisticated and smart looking. tion for God. But whoa! there, writer sought to relieve her addic- Old Mr. Martin (an owner of the there; if your beliefs are not in tion for books and made friends bookstore) thinks you must be quite favor of God or indifferent as a with people 3,000 miles away studious-looking in spite of your donkey, do not turn away for (I This collection of letters wonderful sense of humor" (12). promise) there is nothing on deck between a bookseller and a writer Helene laughed that off and mod- trying to persuade. Because spanned 20 years. With each letter, estly told Cecily to "... tell him I'm Piscine "Pi" Patel is nothing of an the relationship between them slid so unstudious that I never went to evangelist, but a passionate son of closer together and chronicled sev- college. And I'm about as smart- God the novel is far and vastly eral important events at that time: looking as a Broadway panhandler. informative without that touchy post World War II London, the I live in moth-eaten sweaters and pretext. The boy, of age sixteen at Dodgers in the 1955 World Series, wool slacks" (13). What's amazing the time, uses Christianity, Hindu and the 1960 US. presidential cam- is Helene's grasp of language even and Islam as freeways like a spiri- paign. This book isn't for everyone. though she's self-taught. Reading a tual plexus to his God. In that, It's for people who appreciate the large variety of books, she'd there is a point of rolling impor-

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Tender is the Night She Said Yes 2 * The Challenger Fall 2003 84 continued from page 1 expanded her vocabulary and had friends- of-Miss- bookstore. Its value was well appre- only increased her hunger for more Hanff. Everybody in ciated. While there was an imposed to read. She especially loved sec- the place wanted to meat ration set at about 20 cents per ondhand books since the previous wine and dine us. person per week in 1951, British owner left his own opinions about We barely got out government aggressively proposed the novel, whether it's penciled alive." an increase in weapons spending in scribbling in the margin, or a worn Frank Doel was Helene 's the billions because of the conflict binding that opened to a passage drug supplier, as she was addicted to with Korea and the threat of com- often visited. Helene gleefully told books. She relied on his vast knowl- munism. She told Frank, "Brian Frank, "Savage Landor arrived safely edge and his ability to get them, if told me you are rationed to two and promptly fell open to a Roman not immediately, then he knew ounces of meat per family per week dialogue where two cities had just where to find them. She demon- and one egg per person per month been destroyed by war and every- strated her loyalty by reassuring and I was appalled" (7). In 1955, body was being crucified and beg- Frank, "Never wonder if I've found Helene asked Frank to cheer for her ging passing soldiers to run them somewhere else anymore. Why favorite team, the Brooklyn Dodgers through and end their agony It'll should I run all the way down to while they were about to play be a relief to turn to Aesop or against their most intense rivals, the I/1*1 St. to buy dirty, badly made Rhodope where all you have to books when I can buy clean, beauti- New York Yankees. "I shall be worry about is a famine. I do love ful ones from you without leaving obliged if you send Nora and the secondhand books that open to the the typewriter? From where I sit, girls to church every Sunday for the page some previous owner read next month to pray for the contin- London's a lot closer than 17"1 oftenest" (7). ued health and strength of Messrs, Throughout her letters, Gilliam, Reese, Snider, Campanella, Frank and Helene share a Helene wanted to visit Frank and Robinson, Hodges, Furillo, Podres, passion for history and for books the Charing Cross Road staff, but Newcombe, and Labine, collectively most especially London, stacked themselves. After his death on known as the Brooklyn Dodgers" with its dusty history that's waiting December 22nd, 1968, Frank's wife (61). In 1960, Helene spoke of her to be read. It was often a sore point Nora wrote a description of him to political leanings when she com- for Helene when her friends were Helene that spotlighted his gentile mented on newspaper stories that able to see London, who were anx- nature. "I only wish that you had spoke of the Democratic presiden- ious to peek at her "family" that's met Frank and known him personal- tial upset over the Republicans. The 3,000 miles away Her friends ly, he was the most well-adjusted Democratic nominees were: Lyndon Ginny and Ed sent this postcard to person with a marvelous sense of B. Johnson, Stuart Symington, her: humor, and now I realize such a Hubert H. Humphrey, and John F. "You might have modest person, as I have had letters Kennedy. She says, "I belong to a warned us! We from all over to pay him tribute and Democratic club, there were four- walked into your so many people in the book trade teen men over there the other night, bookstore and said say he was knowledgeable and eleven of them lawyers, came home we were friends of imparted his knowledge with kind- and read a couple of newspaper sto- yours and were near- ness to all and sundry" (93). ries about the presidential hope- ly mobbed. Your There are several points fuls— Stevenson, Humphrey, Frank wanted to take within 84y Glaring Cross Road that Kennedy, Stassen, Nixon— all us home for the give historical references to impor- lawyers but Humphrey (79). weekend. Mr. Marks tant milestones of our past. Upon Reading these letters connected me came from the back hearing from her friend that meat to an amazing and personal sense of the store just to was rationed, she felt outraged and history shake hands with sent over parcels to those at the It's easy to see the power continued on page 3... 3 * The Challenger Fall 2003

84 continued from page 2 PI continued from page 1 that language has in this work In a The shelves go on forever. They go tance. letter to Frank, Helene was appalled up to the ceiling and the/re old and But to write more on that over the abuse of the English lan- kind of grey, like old oak that has would be misleading; the religious guage that she saw everyday. Since absorbed so much dust over the aspect is only about a third of the her self-education enlightened her years they no longer are their true about what the words actually color" (28). Woe is me, and wistful tale. meant, she's horrified that words sigh! I can picture myself there, Zoo were contorted and stretched to do running my fingers over the tips of keeping heads things that they weren't meant to do. the dust-blanketed shelves, glancing up a great deal For example, while she's looking for at titles in languages unknown, and of the novel, a new apartment she read a sign that hearing the creak of the oaken mostly to teach naively stated, "One and Two floorboards beneath me. animalistic rela- Bedroom Apartments at Rents That 84, Charing Cross Road was tions, but also to Make Sense." She rightfully pointed adapted to a play It was also made show an ani- out "Rents do NOT make sense. into a full-length film in 1987. And prices do not sit around being Directed by David Hugh Jones, it mal's attitude towards a domestic reasonable for anything, no matter stared Anne Bancroft, making a per- enclosure. One may consequently what it says in the ad. I go through fect Helene; Anthony Hopkins, as be convinced zoos are not bad life watching the English language the impeccable Frank Doe; and Judi places, assuming no mistreatment. being raped before my face and like Dench, who played Frank's wife, The third part of the tale is Miniver Cheevy, I cough and call it Nora. The film is available on survival when Pi is stranded on a fate and go on drinking" (69). DVDandVHS. The book is 26-foot lifeboat with an orangutan Helene s descriptions are so enhanced by the movie. It's best to named Orange Juice, a zebra with dense with meaning and color that read the book first, and then rent a broken leg, a hyena and a every time I read 84, Charing Cross the video. The chemistry between Richard Parker on water clouded Road I gag on it, having to slow Anne Bancroft and Anthony with sharks. (Sometimes the ele- down and chew on it slowly and Hopkins is visual sugar for the soul. ments turn a horrible trick on the digest every meaning. Whenever I It's an easy read, about an hour. company.) Not too briefly the read the description of The Shop by However, with each additional read- company is whittled down to the Helene s visiting friend Maxine, I get ing, I noticed one more phrase, or two strongest. How will it end? fat. I can just picture Helene's wist- one more nuance, that I hadn't seen can the two ruling personalities ful demeanor with her eyes closed before. The feelings that blanketed coexist? which story do you each time that Maxine describes it. me while I read the book and saw believe? "Its dim inside. You smell the shop the movie stayed with me for hours Martel tells this story with before you see it; it's a lovely smell. afterwards, much like a rich tiramisu. a clean simplicity that neither shel- I can't articulate it easily, but it com- ters nor insults the reader, impera- bines must and dust and age, and written by Jason Winston tive for the reader to believe the walls of wood and floors of wood. fact within said novel. It is an easy read, one for an otherwise busy week, but not to write a busy essay on, unless one wishes to expound on Pi's zoo to religion comparison (which is not wholly invalid). Besides... I am reading Tropic of

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her father, Brad. Called "Daddy's The next chapter describes Girl," it outlines all the the struggles good times they had and early on they She Said Yes some not so good ones. had to For this report I read the book There are Cassie's cats, endure. She Said Yes. This book was writ- algebra, swimming, fish- Cassie ten by Misty Bernall, Cassie ing and rock climbing. would Bernall's mother. She wrote it in There is a vivid recol- /•> scream in hopes that it would help parents lection of Cassie's dirt » rages and and kids connect. It is a New York bike accident. Misty argue every- Times best seller and has sold over then details the night- day. Misty a million copies. Misty received mare she experienced d Brad the coveted Christopher Award for after Cassie's death, and played emo- the book. There are Dutch, how she felt Brad coped !| tional "tag German, Italian, Korean, Swedish, so easily, and how she [team." They Danish, Norwegian, Slovak, chose Cassie's final I forbade Romanian and Spanish translations attire for the casket, not iCassie to do of the book with more on the way. a "nice dress", but shirt, (anything: no Answering a question is a simple jeans, puka shell neck- job, no task to most. Answering important lace and the Doc Martins Cassie phone calls, no going out. If Misty questions take more thought, but always wore. She was upset that went out for an errand, Cassie one never imagines they might lose the lining was pink, she said no would pick up that phone and call their life over the answer. Cassie pink', Cassie was her daddy's girl. Mona. So Misty and Brad installed Bernall did. She Said Yes is the The next part of the book a recording device into the phone story of the unlikely martyrdom of was heartbreaking to read. It was and searched her backpack and her

Cassie. On April 20th, 1999, at 11 all about Cassie's problems before room frequently. Cassie wrote an a.m., Cassie walked in the library Columbine. How she plotted to kill essay a few years later and said at Columbine High School to work a teacher with her best friend, and that she hated being at CFS and on her English homework. Within wrote how she hated her parents that the other kids hated her. Misty the hour, two gunmen would go on and family. There were many notes recalls the process of rebuilding a shooting rampage, killing 14 discovered by Misty about the their relationship: regaining her people, including her. When they occult and death and dying, how trust, being more the parent, not spotted her, they asked her if she her friend urged her to kill herself. the friend, and being with Cassie. believed in God. She answered, Misty knew her friend, Mona (not Then Cassie made a friend, Jamie. "Yes." Then they killed her. her real name), was a bad influ- She wasn't what Misty expected a The book starts with Misty ence from when they met in the nice Christian girl to be, but found telling her side of that horrific fifth grade. But she didn't know out she was really warm. Jamie Tuesday, how the hours dragged how to deal with it because, she recalls that at first Cassie was real- and what she went through to find said, you want your child to have ly closed off, hopeless, angry, and out that her daughter was dead. I friends and be liked and connect suicidal. Misty felt Cassie was would never be able to imagine with someone. Misty and Brad becoming less loyal to her old how that must have felt, but Misty confronted Cassie and after much friends, but they harassed them so paints such a raw picture that it yelling and argument, they pulled much that they were forced to rips at your heart; you can put Cassie out of her school and for- move. yourself there, panicked along with bade her to see Mona. They made Then there was a u-turn. At her. Then Misty devotes a chapter the decision right there to transfer a youth retreat in the spring, Cassie to Cassie and her relationship with Cassie to the Christian Fellowship went and changed. People from School. the retreat saw it too, and her par- continued on next page... 5 » The Challenger Fall 2003

YES from previous page everyday that I have to live for PI Continued from page 3 ents saw it, but weren't completely him. It made me thank him for lis- Cancer at the time of this writing. convinced. Misty says that the tening to me, the teenager, the less Every printed character is the best most growing happened after that than holy, for believing in me. It book I've read, but would anyone turning point. Cassie wanted to go made me realize how small I was, but a writer know that, so...so and yet how I can make a differ- what? I don't know how many of to Columbine to "witness" to many you already know that this is not other kids. After her death, peers ence. This book will touch me writing, probably not enough. To stated how what happened didn't every time I read it, and I hope if accomplish that, one still has to surprise them. Cassie standing up you chose to read it, it will touch lose their humanity, become inhu- for what she believed in was who you too. man- Henry Miller's idea, not mine. she was. As Cassie changed, so did Why, then are you reading her tastes. She now loved photog- written by Kristen Kleinau words in black ink on white paper? raphy, poetry and nature and If they've not been written, what LOVED Shakespeare. Cassie at are you reading? Type, ob-la-di. Typing my opinions without much times missed her old friends and Tender is the desire, there is little meaning here hoped they could find what she to you or me. Truthfully, I'd rather found. Misty shares notes Cassie NleM be reading Miller than citing .him, and her friend wrote. Cassie men- and have everyone else do Simi- tions God in all of them and her Barnes and Noble $14.99 larly. But that's not going to faith and her struggles with her Gatsby's not the only great happen, because writers are always a dying lot, and our era wants not faith. She was really open about it Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; quite possibly has just life but youth and not just to her friend and the youth group. speed but pleasantries. Granted, Cassie is called the "martyr it all. It has murder, mystery, the reader-writer relationship, that of Littleton." Misty isn't sure if intrigue, romance, action, suspense bond Holden Caulfield describes as Cassie should have that title. She and charm. The book from start to a pick-up-the-phone-to-call rela- finish has an air of aristocratic wit tionship is hard to find in any gen- says it's unlikely she is labeled that eration. Yet here you read an arti- because before she was a martyr, that paints a vivid picture of the cle written in another formula to an she was a teen. Misty says that procession of action. The opening end, with little concern for the Cassie was a stronger woman than scene starts the reader in the French process. All of this is to be reflected she herself will ever be. She says Riviera, but the characters, being on Mr. Martel's work; he is a high- how Cassie wouldn't be comfort- wealthy socialites, move all over end average writer, and you might able with the label. Misty says that Europe and the United States with read his book, Life of Pi, and you the world looks at Cassie's "yes" each change of scenery creating would probably enjoy it, which is of April 20, but we need to look at more suspense until the culmina- an assumption based on my own the daily "yes" she said. Cassie's tion. informal survey. But, you should story isn't just Misty's and Brad's, The book is written with the also read Henry Miller's books, it belongs to whoever reads it and narrator as omniscient. He sees all, too; he is a Writer. Don't be what they do with it to give it knows all. There is also a lot of dia- offended by the profane lifestyle meaning. log spliced into the depictions of the that he is; he's inhuman. I have shared parts of it, narrator. This style of writing is and have truly taken it to heart. very poignant because the reader is written by rachel shine I'm touched by the true emotion able to see the contrast between that pours out of the book. I what a character is saying and what thought it was one of the best that character actually thinks of the books I ever read. It made me situation. The narrator pays partic- think what I would do in her situa- ular attention to the three main tion. It makes me thank God continued on next page... PRODUCE, WERE IT BUT THE INFINITKIMAL FRACTION Of A PRODUOS THE UTMOST THOU HAST IN THEE; OUT WITH IT! UP, UP! 6 * The Challenger Fall 200 • NIGHT from page 5 otal point in young Rosemary's life it feels like to have voices in the because it is the point at which her head. mother does not solely retain her Nicole stars in book three. affection. She is starting to realize that she has The story shifts from its what it takes to be her own woman. focus at the beginning of book two She no longer needs Dick as a when Dick Diver, just out of med- crutch to which she leans on for her ical school, first meets his future own sanity. As Nicole gets better it bride Nicole. The scene is set in seems that Dick gets worse and F. Scott in 1926 Zurich in 1917. Dick is visiting a eventually loses self-control with characters of the story: Rosemary, friend and fellow psychologist help from the massive amounts of Dick, Nicole. The story is told from Franz Gregorovius at the alcohol he drinks to escape. Nicole each character's stance to the point Zurchsee's clinic. Upon leaving and Dick start to drift and Nicole where it feels like that character is from the visit Dick noticed a beau- finds refuge in the arms of another telling the story. tiful young woman, Nicole, in the man. The book is divided into garden of the hospital. They walk This is a must read for those three parts giving each character and talk, and Dick leaves an address seeking "The Great American their own book, in a sense. The first at where he can be reached. Over Novel." It is full of twist and turns section is defined by the events that the next year Nicole writes vigor- that keep the reader guessing and a young Rosemary Hoyt encoun- ously to Dick and it is in the letters the story interesting. The story ters. Rosemary is a budding starlet that he finds she is a patient at the does have its happier moments, but from California who ventured on hospital and wasn't just visiting. for the most part is dismal. It leaves vacation with her mother to Europe. Dick becomes intrigued and when the reader with the belief that true The story starts with the pair check- he returns he consults Franz about love doesn't exist. ing into the Gausse's Hotel. his predicament. Dick decides to Rosemary is quite unsatisfied with court and eventually marry Nicole. written by Joe Meister Jr. her surroundings and expresses this At the beginning of the courting Dick finds out that Nicole is quite to her mother, but her opinion Literal Starvation changes when she encounters the wealthy. Dick is a noble man and charismatic Dr. Dick Diver. Diver wants to provide for his house, so in "In 1990 the number of is already married, but Rosemary, the beginning of the marriage the illiterates in the Arab states was 61 with the encouragement of her money is kept separated, Dick's and million, representing 48.7% of the mother, decides to pursue Dick any- Nicole's. As time progresses the population at the age of 15 and way. couple starts living a more elegant above." This statement was report- Rosemary is a very innocent life off of the wealth acquired by ed at the regional Arab conference character in the beginning of our Nicole. on education this year in Cairo and story. She has just finished her first Fitzgerald also delves into reported on ArabNews.com. It is staring role in a movie, Daddy's the psychotic mind of Nicole Diver still over 68 million people today, Little Girl, which describes her to a as apart of book two. This is a very 38 percent of the Arab community. T. She is still quite young, just intricate picture because Nicole suf- Individual countries do have their turning eighteen as the story begins. fers from Schizophrenia. The nar- own statistics, and some have vir- She is not used to being famous rator goes into depth of some of tually eliminated the problem of and, for that matter, is just getting Nicole's thoughts, and through this illiteracy. ArabNews.com reports her legs as her own woman. The view the reader gets a chilled and Jordan, Palestine, United Arab encounter with Dick Diver is a piv- somewhat disturbing view of what Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait have Continued on page 7... 66 YER SELF STEAM" 7 * The Challenger Fall 2003

Continued from page 6 reached this point. LEBANON KUWAIT MOROCCO PALESTINE ""& :^ IRA0^ / B^HRAIN Places where illiteracy is a large ••-•-..... ^ xv ; QATAR problem harms the educational sys- W. ALGERIA tem and thus tampers with the inter-country relations without capacity or drive towards diplo- j MAURITAIA matic problem-solving. Morocco, Iran, Yemen, Algeria, Omen and Egypt are among the countries in The Arab World that situation, wrote ArabNews.com. Wednesday, November ArabBay.com Copyright ©-All Rights Reserved 12 , the Chicago Tribune ran an article concerning the nearly unbe- only 1.1 percent of the world's Books are not the single lievable low literacy habit in Arab books are published there. And, it sufferers, either. Today newspa- countries. takes much longer for a book to be pers are printed in quantities of 5 Authors, teachers, intellectuals of translated into Arabic; five times as per 1,000, whereas in "developed every developed nation complain many books are translated into nations" 285 per 1,000 are printed. people do not read enough these Greek each year, though Greek is Ahmed Al-Shahawi is an days; in Arab countries like Egypt, spoken by almost 270 million peo- Egyptian poet whose book a best seller sells 5,000 copies in ple less than the population of the Commandments for Loving an area of 280 million people, and Arab world. Women was banned by Al-Azhar most books never print more than The scholars reported the University in Cairo, the highest 1,000 copies. amount of red tape writers and authority of Sunni Islam on the It is not entirely that they publishers must please. To be pub- grounds that, in the opinion of the cannot read; the Arab population lished in all Arab countries, 22 University, the passages desecrated simply doesn't anymore. Publisher countries' censors need to approve. Islam. Ibrahim al-Mowallem blames the "The noose is so tight that very lit- The poet intends to pro- depression on the prevailing feel- tle squeezes through," said Nader mote his book regardless of the ing of hopelessness. Their econo- Fergany, the report's head writer. ban. "I will challenge them and my is so stagnant that people can- Aficionados searching for rare and publish the book ten times over" not afford to pay 25 Egyptian any person looking for a title con- Al-Shahawi decared in a room full pounds ($3.50 in American dollars) gregated at the Ezbekiya gardens- of years of old newspapers. for a book said Cairo University over a decade ago. Since then, the Banned and censored books professor and translator Ahmed city put a parking garage and sub- have their fighters, though the dan- Mostageer. Was that not a prob- way stop there, and drove away the ger arguably outweighs the end. lem, "reading and writing are culture. Though the gardens have Dismissing the religious declara- impaired by censorship, poor edu- re-opened, the businesses have tions, orfatwa, has resulted in cation, religious fundamentalism never recovered. death for some. and war," reported the article from "We have the Ministry of Mahfouz, an Egyptian who the first UN report on the subject, Culture on one side, and the funda- won the Nobel Prize for literature written by Arab scholars. Islamic mentalists on the other," said in 1988, was stabbed by a militant fundamentalism is on the rise, only Gamal Al Ghitany author and edi- group who cited the fatwa of Al- to restrict publishing in a direct tor of the literary journal, al Akbar Azhar as the catalyst of the attack. relation. Though five percent of al Adab "Culture is caught in the the world's population is Arabic, middle." written by rachel shine 8 • The Challenger Fall 2003

I want a world of men and women ...of rivers that carry you places, not rivers of legends, but rivers that put you in touch with other men and women, with archi­ tecture, religion, plants, animals... I want rivers that make oceans like Shakespeare and Dante, rivers which do not dry up in the void of the past. Oceans, yes! Let us have more oceans, new oceans that blot out the past, oceans that create new geological formations, new topographical vistas and strange, terri­ fying continents, oceans that destroy and preserve at the same time, oceans that

we sail on, take off to new discoveries, new horizons. Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

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