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        <title><![CDATA[When thinking about literature, I tend to try to avoid the whole...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When thinking about literature, I tend to try to avoid the whole question of "intention." Two New Critics -- last names Wimsatt and Beardsley -- wrote an influential essay titled "The Intentional Fallacy" that outlines several reasons why the author's intention should play no role in how we read works by that author. I'm not at all a New Critic myself, but I think they're right when they point out that the author's intention is neither...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Acceptance was important for several related reasons. First and most...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Acceptance was important for several related reasons. First and most generally, it is important to all people; we need to be part of a group.Second, African-Americans had been excluded from full inclusion in the American public sphere, and so acceptance was a measure of this.Third, the narrator wished to hold a position within the African-American community, and acceptance was a necessary step towards this.&#160;]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[why was acceptance important to the main character?]]></title>
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