Hollowisthechild’s Reviews > Wool Omnibus > Status Update

okay that's enough for today, now I just need to take notes on everything...

Okay right let's read a hundred pages today 😭 If my lit and comp teacher changes the deadline for this I'm gonna go insane

WE'RE LOOKING IN CHAT TRUST

I'M SO FRIED APPARENTLY I NEED TO FINISH THIS BY MONDAY

Objectively speaking, I would say the prose of this book is a bit questionable, but the plot and characters are so good that it makes up for it

i have a test on this thing tomorrow i'm so cooked

lowkey need to read this again but i don't wanna be productive... let me sit and rot

Contrast between Holston’s death and the children.
death of a member of one generation and the new life being born into another generation. Also connects to the nursery thing later.
The death of a member of one generation and birth of a new life thing comes up a LOT. Jahns talks about it, and it connects to both Allison and Holston’s deaths.

MOTIF- childhood/children in general
a. The playing children in the first chapter.
b. Holston reflecting on how he used to see the silo as a kid (also contrast)
c. Allison being unable to have kid
d. Jahns and Marnes going to the nursery
e. Jahns saying that she never had a chance to have children
f. A lot about perfect families of two kids.
g. Peter Nichols’s son being stillborn.

This old person ship started sailing fast