place I found myself slipping into often enough already
loneliness
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- Oct 2020
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he grid of screens
zoom
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the poorer ones, disappeared into the hospital 12 blocks away
Covid in NYC was an extremley economic issue and still to this day affects more POC and economically disadvantafed neighborhoods (the Bronx, Harlem, Queens, etc.)
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“I tried to get toilet paper,”
toilet paper crisis of march
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suddenly I lived in an empty house.
feeling of being alone
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Some of my neighbors fled to second homes
many wealthy residents of nyc fled to the hamptons
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The virus hit
Covid-19, epicenter was NYC in early spring
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I’m talking about the people, of course.
clarification to emphasize community aspect
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unclutched.
very different than in the beginning
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had ever known
kind of points back to the theme of winter's ending, a lot more jovial and new experiences are related to spring
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whom they knew
different from the beginning where she only had one interaction with someone she brely knew
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masked
masked with what?
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humidity
weather is described, shows how winter is over
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me
first person?
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Are you sure, her mother said from the garden where she was walking in circles, one circle every 45 seconds.
Seems like the mother is nervous
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Kamila Shamsie
Pakistani-British Muslim, may be similar representation of characters
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- Sep 2020
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They returned because having laughed and cried and imagined new rules for living altogether, they were then able to finally see the present, and think of the future.
Escapism incorporating in stories like Decameron allow for people to actually identify what in life is important and to go back to reality and live life without fear.
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The paradox of Boccaccio’s escapist stories is that they ultimately return the characters, and readers, to what they have fled.
Important to note that in life, it is impossible to run away from certain things: you must be brave and hope for the best. I think this theme was very important in the Black Death because even though people were consuming Boccaccio's novel to escape, it is important to go back to reality at one time or another.
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ind happiness
shows the silver lining idea
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Art is what makes life more interesting than art,”
I think this is an amazing point because it is so important to find the beauty in everyday ugliness.
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Boccaccio ends “The Decameron” with a joke about how some readers might dismiss him as a lightweight, although, he explains, he weighs a lot.
This is very interesting to me because although Boccaccio is referring to himself, it is also an apt description for his story.
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silly, some are sad and none are focused on the plague.
This reminds me of during our quarantine certain indrusties went up exponentially; like Netflix, exercise (equipment) and reading because all of these things help people because they distract them from the terribleness of the world.
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with their ancestors in another world.
Refers to afterlife, shows the severity by juxtaposing being with family at morning time to death in the evening
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Ten young people decide to quarantine outside Florence.
Florence, Italy was a COVID-19 hotspot.
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