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- - - - "There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
        And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
        And frogs in the pools singing at night,
        And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
        Robins will wear their feathery fire,
        Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
        And not one will know of the war, not one
        Will care at last when it is done.
        Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
        If mankind perished utterly;
        And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
        Would scarcely know that we were gone." (238)
    - - The Giver
        In The Giver there exists the belief that getting rid of memories will eliminate the pain from people's lives. By getting rid of memories, this also prevents people from learning from their mistakes, meaning they could repeat them. History is important for this reason; learning from the mistakes of the past can help us make better decisions in the future.However; throughout the book, it is shown that in order to experience true happiness, one must also experience the harsh memories of pain and sadness.
- - - - Inventory
        Maria Machado writes about non-reproductive sex and sexual experiences in this short story. Machado does not exoticize bisexuality, nor does she fetishize it; she simply states it as being a part of this woman’s identity. "Inventory" is a list of both sexual partners and other common items, such as trees, spices, and pets. These lists are memorializing what life once was like and also memorializing her healthy, sexual body before it gets taken over by the disease.
      - We Can Remember it For You Wholesale
        The women in the story are either a bother or serve to fulfill a sexual fantasy. The receptionist at Rekal is described as the "nicely-articulated blonde at the counter, bare-bosomed and tidy." (2) This description does not further the story's plot, nor does it serve any significance throughout the story. The inclusion of such a description is to sexualize a woman's body.
      - The Word for World is Forest
        In the first paragraph of the Word for World is Forest, women are described as stock, in this way they have no agency other than to be a good for another being.
        In the “alien” Athshean world, the women are the leaders, while the men are the dreamers. This shows that only in an “alien” world could women be in power.
        People treated like stock and cattle.