My Uncle Oswald | Ideas for Group Discussions
My Uncle Oswald is a slight book, lacking the thematic or stylistic complexity that would lend it easily to discussion. A discussion might best approach the book as a satire on modern cultural mores and practices. The silliness of trying to breed geniuses through artificial insemination is ripe for satire, especially since many people take it seriously. Satire often has a serious purpose, may be seen as an expose of the irrationality of eugenics, which had horrifying consequences in Germany and Japanese occupied Manchuria in the 1930s and 1940s, not long after the events in My...
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