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\u201cFragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of space.\u201d (156)<\/p>\n
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The narrators choice of words here are exquisite in its generalization. \u201cFragile creatures\u201d viewing humans not as people but of unknown mysteries both capable of good and evil. Not only capable but expected to, because one doesn\u2019t come without the other in human nature. The power in these words loses the essence and need to gender people, because like the language that Winterson uses, the language allows room for growth and tolerance of not having to define and categorize all that we are.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of space.\u201d We are physically surrounded by ninety seven percent water only which two percent has been explored by the humans, in a system of unknown. This unknown is what the narrator is getting at in the entire context of the novel. No matter how much research can be conducted on the solar system, or to whatever extensions we can try to make in order to understand the depths of the ocean that go miles deep into the earth, it is impossible to know it all. So our frail minds, bodies, and souls, have to embrace this fact in order to truly live and see past the definitions that we quickly look to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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