+ Too Cool for School +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

Comments

[krmvgivv]

Um.

[He hadn't actually thought about that part much.]

Be... nice to horses?

[bibliocorn]

[Congrats, Dipper- you swung with your eyes closed and you managed to score. Sunburst looks pacified, for now.]

Yes, well done. Sewell wrote it to address the poor treatment of horses in her time period. By making the horse the narrator of the story, by giving him sentience [sentient horses, who'd have thunk it?] she was giving him a human element. It was an attempt to make people who read it feel sorry for him, to see some of themselves in him- to see horses as living beings, with thoughts and feelings and not just mere beats of burden.

[krmvgivv]

But-- [Dipper raises his hand again but doesn't wait to be called on.] It's fictional, right? I mean the treatment of horses was real, sure, and I'm not saying that part's good, but don't you think maybe she undermined her point a little by making the horses sentient? Like, why believe part of it when other parts aren't real?

[bibliocorn]

[When they get back to normal, he will remember this, Dipper.]

To make it from the horse's point of view, of course. Humans are more liable to have empathy for something they feel they can connect to. So, the sentience means they can see the world through the horse's eyes. It provides a level of understanding otherwise lost.