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144: Howl's Moving Castle

Sophomore Lit

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The Curse of Casifer

Sophie is an explosive character who is very quick to react to things emotionally yeah maybe it's just because I've never been turned into an old lady but someone noticing that I was under a curse. The minute somebody knows that it's her cursed she can talk about it and similarly there are things that Casifer cannot tell her until she offers up the knowledge herself. It took me several reads over to be like okay there's a three-way body switch here that's why I don't understand what's happening this is very confusing. If fantasies and science fiction are often ways that we work through social or psychological problems they also dramatize how people deal with their secrets in these books.

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