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ambiguity

The topic i was most interested in with both Whitman and the last novel we read, The Sorrows of an American, is ambiguity. It is my opinion that as literature evolves, amongts other things, it gets more ambiguous. Darwin wrote in a scientific manner, presenting evidence, and providing straight forward information. Walt Whitman tried to access the readers unconscious by writing in a stream of consciousness manner. The last reading, the novel, included so many characters that were ambigous that the reader, or at least myself, got a sense of being in an ambiguous world. Nothing is as it seems, there is always something that I don't know and that I need to discover.

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