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You open The Tent and enjoy the story, Plots For Exotics, where an unidentifiable character is told that “as an exotic” there are only limited roles he or she could play in a plot; exotics can only be comical servants, the best friend who never gets the girl or the next-door neighbour.
You are able to understand that the story, Chicken Little Goes Too Far, reflects the current day ambivalence to the state of the environment and that Tree Baby was written as a reaction piece to the heartbreak of tsunami survivors.
You appreciate Atwood’s recreation of the myth of Helen of Troy as a story about a girl named Helen who, as a child, used to sell Kool-Aid in It’s Not Easy Being Half Divine.
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