Analysis: The story presents a search for paradise, capital P, so it's Paradise. The uncle is already there but, due to the actions of his niece, a proper woman, is about to be disrupted from same. In this uncle's Paradise, sex is a good thing but the cannon ball indicates that this interpretation is fallacious and true paradise is something else again. What that might be is left to the restrictions of the individual imagination.
The ALA has voted this story the most likely to be challenged in 2010.![]()



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I'm so dense. 


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