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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8743661" data-attributes="member: 6855114">And god do I like this argument.Art can be art for the sake of art only. The gully dwarves here were never intended to be related to people with dawn syndrome.  Never ever. But you can see a connection to anything when you look hard enough and if you twist meanings enough anything can be proven, no matter how tenous and removed the link can be. When I was at the university, I wrote an essay in which, I part one, I "proved" that The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz  was an anti semite apology,  an other part, that it was a scionist apology and an other that the book was simply a metaphors for class struggles. I got an A+ in all three parts of the essay. My point was simply that anyone can see anything in a novel or in art if he tries hard enough. Whatever the POV  you adopt while reading "The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", it is still an incredibly good book to read. The same goes with the Dragonlance novels.That you see links in the Dragonlance novels does not mean that the link is truly there. That others are seeing the same thing as you do does not validate this view either; simply because as much people (in fact, much more)  will be able to contest your view with sound arguments to debunk what you claim to be the truth. Yes some books are allegories for something else and this is why you need to read books with the mind set of that era. Otherwise, all you get is a simple feeling that maybe you have seen a link that others did not. And most of the time, that feeling will be wrong.PS:" My teacher was a good friend of MR and he had shown my three part essay to him. He was quite amused by it."</blockquote>

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