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ere’s to the second edition of Scribble; what a success the first one has been. Our literary magazine really did go off with a bang. So, as a team, we wanted to make this edition even better and celebrate what’s been going on around us - both in school and in the wider world of literature. s we mark the centenary year of the First World War armistice, the article on page 4 explores the most influential female poets of the time. This article gave me an idea for my editor’s letter and that is the idea that literature is a device to understand what is around us: past and present. A good book can transport us to another place or another time and force us to walk in the imaginaryshoesofsomeoneelse.Seeingthingsfromanewperspectivecanoften make us see things differently when we’re back in our own shoes.
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o, on that note, the article on pages 30 to 33 takes us on a tour of civil rights literature which I feel gives us a really good understanding of just how much attitudes have evolved over time and how literature has acted as a mirror to those changes. In fact, I would say, literature often acts as a mirror to history and that is something that is discussed further in our interview with Mrs Sharrock where we invited her to talk all about her own relationship with literature (which can be found on pages 20 to 23).
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ut it’s not just a time machine that literature creates, it’s also a device used tocommentsocietyandhumancondition.Inthisedition,wemeetGraham Greene’s Pinkie Brown and his inner demons on page 8, we also have an encounter with the ingenious poetry of Allen Ginsberg through the eyes of Mr Allen on page 18 and we have a great article on Mary Webb on page 7. Three very different authors and a few interesting characters for you to see what it’s like to be in their shoes – just don’t stay in Pinkie’s for too long!
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e also celebrate the results from not just one but two literary competitions in this edition which is fantastic; we as a school aren’t just lovers of reading literature but we love writing it too. So, we hope you enjoy reading the second edition of Scribble and that it made you think about the wide world of literature – from the poems of WW1 to Ms Sharrock’s favourite book. Enjoy!
Molly
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