Reader's Ink discussion

How does Ms. Simonson create, illustrate, and resolve the book’s tension between the traditional and the modern?

Roger and Sandy represent modern, and the developers of the new area, the Major represents traditional. I'm also going to put the Guns in the traditional segment here too. How much time was put on the emotion tied to those guns. I'm kind of in the middle in my own life, part modern, part traditional. I can see how those of us in this group represent both sides of the coin. Simonson shows different ways like the duck hunt, (how the ducks were raised), the fancy party that combined people from both sides. Where I really had some self struggle was with Abdul and his own personal struggles that took him to a point where he didn't want to live any more.