4 December 2017: "Drowning is accidental...you don't have control over it, like the economic and cultural forces he feels." --a student in my ENGL 204 class, answering the question I always ask them about this Junot Diaz story: why is it called "Drown"?
Like the story we talked about on Friday, "Drown" is another piece I love, but one I came this close to dropping this semester. It's such a downer for a last piece and I am not sure I ever teach it well enough. But this class...man, they hit it out of the park. The student quoted above put into words what I often struggle to articulate myself.
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