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Mon Feb 6 16:18:18 CST 2017

Sorry, I accidentally sent that last email before I had the chance to link
to the second review
<http://eaterofbooks.blogspot.com/2017/01/review-carve-mark-by-veronica-roth.html>.
This review actually goes through both the positives and negatives of the
novel.

Anna Kim
School Librarian
Chappell Elementary School
akim6 at cps.edu

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

                   -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Kim, Anna <akim6 at cps.edu> wrote:

> Full disclosure: No.
>
> However, there have been enough criticism of the racist and ableist
> language and coding for me to believe that there must be some truth to the
> matter.
>
> *As discussed in the opening paragraph, much of Carve The Mark’s release
> has been mired in controversy, with readers objecting to the racial coding
> of the Shotet people. Whereas the Thuvhe people – coded as white – are
> peace loving, loyal and loving to their families, the black coded Shotet
> people are aggressive, seemingly ruled by violence, their language is
> described as harsh, they engage in patricide, and force those they kidnap
> into a life of brutality and slavery. Cyra’s mother is described as having
> hair so curly that it traps her fingers. They are the brutes and enemies of
> the other planets. To call this problematic is the least I can do. It’s
> hard to overlook this coding (although clearly the publishers did), and is
> made all the more uneasy when combined with the eponymous mark carvings.*
> Bibliodaze review
> <http://bibliodaze.com/2017/01/review-carve-the-mark-by-veronica-roth/>
>
> *Fourth: problematic racial content. Oh yeah, I definitely see where
> people are coming from, when they say that this book has some racist
> content. The Shotet are portrayed as "brown skinned", aggressive, nomadic
> people. They stole Thuvhe children years ago, and the Thuvhe retaliated and
> stole Shotet children, but the way the story is told, the Shotet are the
> "villains". I mean, given that the first chapter is about Akos's father
> getting brutally murdered in front of him, I get why that would be
> implication. But there are definitely underlying tones of something
> problematic here: the Thuvhe, light-skinned peaceful people, and the
> Shotet, darker-skinned aggressive people, are both cliches. And what's
> more, it seems like most of the Shotet have very violent currentgifts,
> whereas the Thuvhe have more passive, non-violent gifts (like Akos's, or
> his mother's, or his brother's). *
>
> Anna Kim
> School Librarian
> Chappell Elementary School
> akim6 at cps.edu
>
> "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
>
>
>                      -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Have you read it? I seriously didn't pick up on any of that. They all
>> have good AND evil in them. It will be a matter of what wins out in the
>> end....
>> One scene had two girls/women holding hands and one could only see where
>> one begins and one ends in the slight shading of their skin. It was the
>> little bit darker one that has the calming effect.
>> I just don't see it. But then I see the glass half full....
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
>> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>> RE: Veronica Roth's *Carve the Mark*. There have been a lot of rumbling
>> on social media about the racist undertones
>> <http://justinaireland.com/dammit-this-is-a-blog/2016/12/4/the-continent-carve-the-mark-and-the-trope-of-the-dark-skinned-aggressor>
>> in the book, specifically in the color-coding of characters
>> (black=evil/savage, white=good, peaceful).
>>
>> Anna Kim
>> School Librarian
>> Chappell Elementary School
>> akim6 at cps.edu
>>
>> "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
>>
>>
>>                      -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>>
>> Follow me on Goodreads
>> <http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3232421-anna-kim>!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
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>>> *islma at list.railslibraries.info <islma at list.railslibraries.info> writes:*
>>> YA Dystopian literature between 2010-2016 (there are lots to choose from
>>> I know) with an emphasis on female characters and technology.
>>>
>>> *Things that might work:*
>>> All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Anders (not straight dystopian and
>>> more adult than YA, but still might work)
>>> Lexicon by Max Barry (more adult, but on our summer reading list)
>>> Bluescreen by Dan Wells
>>> Children of Eden by Joey Graceffa
>>> Flawed by Cecilia Ahern
>>> The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh O'brien
>>> Breaking Sky by Cori McCarthy
>>> Starters by Lissa Price
>>> Cinder/Lunar Chronicles Series by Marissa Meyer
>>> Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
>>> In the After by Demitria Lunetta
>>> The Program by Suzanne Young
>>> Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
>>> The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
>>> Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
>>> Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
>>> Reboot by Amy Tinterra
>>> Delirium by Lauren Oliver
>>> Chemical Garden trilogy by Lauren DeStefano
>>> When We Wake by Karen Healey
>>> The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
>>>
>>>
>>> **********************
>>> *Kelly McGorray Roberts*
>>> Head Librarian, Glenbard East High School
>>> Ph: 630-424-6693 <(630)%20424-6693>
>>> Tw: @roberts_reads
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