They're trying to make us forget because hearing those voices could- and likely would-change everything they know and understand about the world. By banning books, by denying the reality of our history, by silencing the voices of those finally empowered to stand up and tell their own stories in their way, with their own context. There are so many out there ardently trying to keep America a country that forgets. This quote struck me like a twenty-foot wave.
"While it is true that there is a freedom in forgetting-and this country has made great use of that freedom-there is a tremendous power in remembrance."
Or we could try to forget it entirely-perhaps even forcefully. We can approach the experience with openness, curiosity, and maybe even a little hope. We can stifle or try to silence the change attempting to break free. We have the choice to live in a bitter denial of the possibility that transformative event represents. There are decisions before us when something transformative happens. "Perhaps this is how we learn silence," Alex Muses even before the dragoning, "an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be." They're the McCarthys and the deacons who enforce the order that made so many want to fly away in the first place. The monsters in this story aren't the dragons. And so, Alex is abandoned in the wake of all those wings-left in a world more wondrous and simultaneously more horrible than she could have previously imagined. Too young for dragoning, with a mother long gone (though not dead…just farther away than most anyone could be), her aunt flies off into the spring sky. In one day, women from across the country, from all walks of life, from homemakers to drag queens, begin to sprout wings and scales and talons and, before flying from the lives that kept them in boxes of starched cuffs, damask drapes, and pot roast promptly at 6:30 every night, burned away those things that hurt them the worst, and seemed to fly into oblivion.Īlex Green was left behind. The dragons are women and are specifically women who are literally breaking their bounds. And those dragons are a dark secret that is not only taboo,' but is actively stifled at the highest levels of power. In this version of the world, dragons exist. The book takes place in America in the 1950s-but not quite the America we know. one of my favorite books to come out in the last year When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. This question is one of the central ideas of this story. "I encourage you to consider a question: who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?" Books in Hutchinson, Kansas, recommending one of my favorite books of the past year: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. Hi, this is Sara Crow, owner of Crow & Co.
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