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Post by sotypical42483 on Apr 26, 2006 11:41:37 GMT -5
Ooh one thing I noticed about this book that REALLY bugs me -- they go on vacation for what? 3 days? And Dawn writes about 90 post cards!! I know it's to kinda fill in the story and whatnot, but it's so dumb! I always hated the BSC's obsession with postcards. Like in Sea City Here We Come they are sending postcards back to Stoneybrook and its like hello... they're going to arrive in Sea City before they get their post cards! Fill them in when they get there!
But back to this book, Dawn writes all these bitchy postcards when you know she's gonna get back to Stoneybrook, fill all the girls in on what happened and THEN they'll receive the postcards.
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 26, 2006 15:11:20 GMT -5
Agree about the postcards. They take forever to actually arrive. Maybe this was done to show how bad of a time Dawn was having, though. I know that I always write postcards on vacation if I am bored and lack anything better to do. Also, I sometimes write a ton because I can't decide which one I like best and want to send them all (I helped my cousins build up a collection this way) And Dawn probably wanted to be fair and write one to every BSC member. Agree, though, that it is just a way to give a summary version of the trip without using up too many pages and gets annoying. I noticed it too.
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Post by macca on Apr 26, 2006 16:49:37 GMT -5
The BSC-postcard obsession was so stupid, not just on this occasion, but many others. Who writes postcards on the drive home from the vacation? Dumb.
In this circumstance, I wasn't too bothered by it as it was clearly done to illustrate the point that Dawn was having a terrible time. But on other occasions... where their vacations were exciting, non-stop "thrill-rides" there's still postcards galore. Not to mention the obligatory wobbly-handwritten one that the girl has written in the car, on the plane etc.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Apr 27, 2006 12:46:30 GMT -5
I just figure it'd make a lot more sense if Dawn wrote her feelings in a journal or something, rather than a million postcards.
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Post by macca on Apr 27, 2006 17:36:55 GMT -5
^ yeah, but they made it sound like Mallory was the only journal-keeper. Which is unrealistic in itself. Don't lots of 13 yr olds keep journals?
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Post by buffykay70 on Apr 27, 2006 23:26:23 GMT -5
haha, yeah, writing all those postcards is so dumb. when they get them, the girls will all be friends again.
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Post by macca on Apr 28, 2006 2:12:24 GMT -5
I wonder if she actually sent them all...
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Post by jen on Apr 28, 2006 5:13:12 GMT -5
^ yeah, but they made it sound like Mallory was the only journal-keeper. Which is unrealistic in itself. Don't lots of 13 yr olds keep journals? I'm pretty sure there's a book where Jessi mentions she keeps a journal, because Mallory told her to.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2006 17:28:30 GMT -5
I always wondered about what happened to the first Mrs. DeWitt as well. Especially considering how young Ryan was.
It seems that the families in Stoneybrook all have 1. A lot of children. (Birth control a bit scarce?) 2. Remarry after a very short period of time. In which they gain new step-children, and therefore makes their brood even bigger; so they can hire more sitters to babysit their kids.
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Post by macca on Sept 9, 2006 6:20:07 GMT -5
WORD.
What was it with these Brady Bunch families? Why was Ann, the pro-divorce chick, so determined to get all the couples remarried ASAP?
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Post by wanderingfrog on Sept 9, 2006 15:29:55 GMT -5
Re: the postcard issue, I was skimming through SS #5 the other day, and what I thought was even weirder than people on vacation writing a billion postcards was people back in Stoneybrook writing postcards and sending them to the BSC in California. Seriously, who the hell does that? Claudia's in California for ten days or whatever and Janine just has to send her a postcard? What's up with that?
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Post by lilafowler on Sept 10, 2006 9:38:39 GMT -5
This made me think of that children's book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Baby storm!
Topic: This book had one of the least subtle instances of babysitting-subplot-parallels-sitter's-main-plot. I picked up on it when I was nine.
I can't call the BSC out on sending lots of postcards, because I do it too -- my last trip was three and a half weeks, and I sent about fifteen postcards. No one sent me postcards back, though. That would just be weird.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Sept 10, 2006 23:07:40 GMT -5
That sort of happened in A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen but it's kind of left ambiguous whether she comes back into her children's lives.
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Post by liss31d on Sept 27, 2006 11:30:09 GMT -5
Wow I'm studying A Doll's House at the moment and I thought the exact same thing, that Mrs Dewitt is like Nora!
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Sept 27, 2006 14:12:40 GMT -5
Just to clarify, this is the post I was responding to in regards to A Doll's House:
"jen, I wouldn't think any mother really could pack up and leave four kids behind, one of whom is a two yr old. I can think of one similar real-life example, but the kids were all in their teens and early 20s when the mum ran off. "
I guess I thought it was on the first page when it was really on the last page.
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