Ahmed lost his father while crossing the Mediterranean. Alone and broke in Europe, he takes things into his own hands to get to safety but ends up having to hide in the basement of a residential house. After months of hiding, he is discovered by Max, a boy of similar age and parallel high integrity and courage, who is experiencing his own set of troubles learning a new language, moving to a new country, and being teased at school. In an unexpected turn of events, the two boys and their new friends Farah, a Muslim Belgian girl, and Oscar, a white Belgian boy, successfully scheme for Ahmed to go to school while he remains in hiding the rest of the time. What is at stake for Ahmed is immense, and so is the risk to everyone involved. Marsh invites art and history to motivate her protagonists, drawing parallels to gentiles who protected Jews fleeing Nazi terror and citing present-day political news. This well-crafted and suspenseful novel touches on the topics of refugees and immigrant integration, terrorism, Islam, Islamophobia, and the Syrian war with sensitivity and grace. In 1982 a girl called Mary is living in Thornhill, a troubled and largely un-governed orphanage; it is her diary we are reading, and uncomfortable reading it is. It tells us a story of intense psychological bullying, the sort inflicted by irrepairably damaged children that goes unnoticed by adults. Anyone who has had experience of bullying at school knows full-well that children can be cruel, adults can be both stupid and disbelieving, and that damaged people actively and furtively seek out possibilities to damage other people. Through her diary we watch the tragic story of Mary progress. She seeks peace by creating beautiful creatures; with infinite care and attention she makes little dolls, finely-crafted little figures, often characters from her favourite books. To the rest of the world she utters not a word, Mary is a selective mute.

Thornhill, Randy; Palmer, Craig T. (2000). A Natural History of Rape. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-20125-4. Today she walked with me. The others just carried on chattering, but she slowed and walked at my pace. She asked me how I was. I didn’t raise my head to answer, I just kept watching the ground. She carried on talking anyway, telling me what it had been like with the last foster family. At first I was tense and worried but found myself being more and more curious. Wilson, David Sloan; Dietrich, Eric; Clark, Anne B. (2003). "On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology". Biology and Philosophy. 18 (5): 669–681. doi: 10.1023/A:1026380825208. S2CID 30891026. Told in alternating, interwoven plotlines—Mary's through intimate diary entries and Ella's in bold, striking art—Pam Smy's Thornhill is a haunting exploration of human connection, filled with suspense. Rose, Hilary; Rose, Steven (2000). Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-06030-1.Wheeler Vega wrote that the book had worsened relations between biological scientists and feminists. Though he supported its goal of eradicating rape, he faulted its authors for their criticism of social science, postmodernism, and feminist explanations of rape. He argued that their discussion of issues such as mind–body dualism showed that they had an "unsophisticated metaphysics" and sought to attribute crude mistakes to authors they criticized. He criticized their treatment of the "naturalistic fallacy", suggesting that they oversimplified the issue and had misappropriated the term from Moore, who used it to refer to "the error of using some single property as a definition of ‘good’", with naturalness being only one possible example of such a property. He also criticized their discussion of the issue of whether forced copulation in animals should be considered rape. [41] I hoped she wasn’t going to keep up this cheerful, chattery stuff. It didn’t sound right up here. She chatted a bit about Princess Di expecting a baby and about Thornhill closing and about where the other girls would be going. Then it went a bit quiet and she said: A book between two worlds, Thornhill by Pam Smy is a stunningly balanced mixture between an epistolary novel and a graphic novel. Being, first and foremost, an illustrator for the most of her career, Pam Smy is well-versed in the transmission of feelings through images. But with Thornhill, where she found her written voice for the first time, she also proved that both image and words are powerful tools alike when she gets her hands on them.

And from up here I overlook the houses where the real people, the regular people, live. Sometimes I watch them sleepily opening their curtains in the mornings, heaving out their garbage bags in their bathrobes, letting out their cats, feeding the birds. In the summer they have friends round and there’s noisy laughter and tinkling glasses in the gardens, and on hot days I watch the squealing children splashing in wading pools or squabbling over tricycles. You know, regular, real people with regular, real families. Of course, sometimes that is all a bit much and I have to shut them out too. A Natural History of Rape was published by MIT Press in 2000. [4] Reception [ edit ] Mainstream media [ edit ] Told in alternating, interwoven plotlines—Mary’s through intimate diary entries and Ella’s in bold, striking art—Pam Smy’s Thornhill is a haunting exploration of human connection, filled with suspense. Zeedyk observed that the book had received much attention and been endorsed by the evolutionary psychologists Steven Pinker and David C. Geary. She rejected its authors' views about how to eradicate rape. She argued that their claims about women's responses to being raped conflicted with women's experience and were based on unsound methods. She rejected their argument that rape is sexually motivated, arguing that from the perspective of a raped woman, there is no distinction between the tactic employed in rape, violence, and the motivation for rape. She also criticized their distinction between "instrumental force and excessive force", arguing that it ignored the victim's perspective. She also argued that they ignored evidence that substantiated the social science account of rape. She criticized them for ignoring forms of violence against women other than rape, and argued that their conception of science was mistaken and that their proposal for preventing rape by informing young men about its legal penalties ignored the fact that "recorded rapes typically fail to come to prosecution" and was more likely to encourage than discourage rape. Nevertheless, she considered A Natural History of Rape important because it was "a good example of contemporary evolutionary psychology". She suggested that an alternative evolutionary approach to rape might focus on men's "innate drive for power". [39]

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It is a feeling I haven’t had for months. When she left to be fostered last time, I could breathe again. I felt as though I had been holding my breath for years. The other girls weren’t exactly friendly after she left, but it’s just that they left me alone. They don’t speak to me because they don’t get a reply, so mostly they act as though I am not there. Invisible. That can feel lonely, but I am used to that. Loneliness is nothing compared to the crush of fear I have when she is here at Thornhill. Thornhill is told through journal entries and illustrations. As I said before this book wasn't scary to me as an adult but it was incredibly sad. Mary the orphan is being bullied on a daily basis and her life is a living hell but none of the adults that are suppose to be looking after her seem to care. Only one adult in her life even makes an attempt to help and even that was half assed. Mary only wanted to be friends with the other kids in the orphanage and to make her creepy little puppets but instead she was made fun of, shunned and treated like garbage. The adults could and should have stepped in but instead they chose to actively ignore it. Tiene un final bastante sorprendente y de esos que erizan los vellos de todo el cuerpo mientras te das cuenta de todo lo que ha sucedido casi sin darte cuenta. Pienso que es un libro que me hubiera gustado más en mi adolescencia básicamente por el vocabulario y estilo narrativo (está encarado a un público joven) pero no me han impedido disfrutarlo. Jones wrote that the book became controversial after an extract was published in The Sciences, and that many commentators expressed a "vicious" view of it, despite not having seen a manuscript. He wrote that most commentators had not understood the book, and that some ascribed views to its authors they had never expressed, such as that rapists are not responsible for their behavior, that rape is motivated solely by desire for sex, and that rape is inevitable. He considered the book useful from a legal standpoint, and credited its authors with demonstrating that inaccurate assumptions about the causes of rape hinder attempts to prevent rape and that theories of behavior must be empirically tested, and with putting forward hypotheses based on knowledge of evolution. He commended them for showing "the provocative skepticism that is essential to the search for truth." He found their criticism of orthodox views about the causes of rape, including the idea that rape is never sexually motivated and that it is solely a learned behavior, convincing. He also believed that they were correct to stress that the motives for rape should be distinguished from the tactics used, and to dismiss the idea that only humans engage in forced copulation. However, he criticized the provocative title of the book and Thornhill and Palmer's presentation of their ideas. He considered them unduly dismissive of contributions from other disciplines, such as those of the social sciences. He maintained that while many of the specific charges made against them were false, their scholarship was still open to criticism. [26]

an oddly liminal book: somewhere in-between novel and graphic novel, somewhere in-between YA and middle grade, somewhere in-between me liking it and me being indifferent towards it. Dadlez, E. M.; Andrews, William L.; Lewis, Courtney; Stroud, Marissa (2009). "Rape, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: Natural Selection in the Academy". Journal of Social Philosophy. 40 (1): 75–96. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2009.01439.x. –via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)Es ahí cuando apagas el televisor y te acomodas en tu sillón de lectura. Es ahí cuando frunces el ceño y te planteas que la trama que estás leyendo esta empezando a rumiarte por dentro. Es ahí cuando empieza a afectarte las bromas, críticas, desprecios y desgracias que está padeciendo una protagonista con la que te sientes identificado en todo momento. Y es ahí cuando, ya con tus defensas bajadas, el silencio que te rodea empieza a jugarte malas pasadas. I must have had a look on my face because she hurriedly added, “I know you haven’t been able to settle anywhere yet, Mary—but that’s different. People find the quietness unsettling, that’s all. One day there’ll be someone special who doesn’t expect you to be jabbering on all the time and you’ll have a proper home, better than this creaking old place.” Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door. Patai, Daphne (2000). "Do They Have To Be Wrong?". Gender Issues. 18 (4): 74–82. doi: 10.1007/s12147-001-0025-6. S2CID 143514466. –via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)

Book Genre: Childrens, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Horror, Middle Grade, Mystery, Sequential Art, Young Adult Thornhill and Palmer write that they want to see rape eradicated, and argue that improved understanding of what motivates rape would help achieve this goal, while false assumptions about the motivation of rapists are likely to hinder efforts to prevent rape. They write that rape could be defined as, " copulation resisted to the best of the victim's ability unless such resistance would probably result in death or serious injury to the victim or in death or injury to individuals the victim commonly protects". However, they note that other sexual assaults, including oral or anal penetration of a man or a woman under the same conditions, can also sometimes be called rape. They suggest that theory and research in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology can help to elucidate the ultimate (evolutionary) causes (as opposed to primarily proximate causes) of rape by males in different species, including humans. They argue that the capacity for rape is either an adaptation, or, a byproduct of adaptative traits such as sexual desire and aggressiveness that have evolved for reasons that have no direct connection with the benefits or costs of rape. [1] They also discuss the " naturalistic fallacy", which they define as the mistaken assumption that there is a connection "between what is biologically or naturally selected and what is morally right or wrong." In their discussion of it, they cite the philosopher George Edward Moore's Principia Ethica (1903). [2] Pam lives in Cambridge with her husband, author-illustrator Dave Shelton, and her child,Mila. Most early mornings you’ll see her walking her dog, Barney, along All Souls’ Lane into thegraveyard, past Frances Cornford’s poem, the hidden pillbox and around the field beyond all ofwhich inspired the setting and story for The Hideaway.Desde hace un tiempo vive angustiada por la persecución y acoso que una de las otras niñas que viven en Thornhill la somete. Conoceremos su historia a través de su diario y por otro lado y en otra línea temporal (2017) conocemos a Ella, una chica que se acaba de mudar enfrente de este misterioso orfanato. This personal touch is achieved by the individual being able to choose exactly how they want their entry to look.