Letters to the Editor
h_lina_k
Published Letters: 13 Editor's Choice: 2
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Did Omar die?
[Read the article: Hot off "The Wire"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That scene in the end with Marlo and the two corner kids was possibly my favorite.
We have see the comparisons to Omar as the tragic hero quite often and like the tragic heroes of Achilles and Oedipus Rex, he continues to live. The new generation of street thugs, though elaborating, are still telling the story of Omar's last stand (even though it was nothing like what actually happened). We even see the ghost of Omar in rob Vincent (btw, do you think Michael snatched the shotgun from Omar's body?) Omar's story will be told just as the old greek tragedies were told.
But for all of the importance of his "name," no one on the streets seems to remember Marlo Stanfield. That is why Marlo gets into the scuffle, he is offended that his name is dead, and that Omar's is not. For all of his power, Marlo is now a nobody, just another thug that played the game.
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this post made me cry a bit inside
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]soon i am going to be moving to that dreadful apple in new york to study environmental policy in the hopes that i can increase my ability to make the world a slightly less environmentally degraded place. and the thing that i think about the most: i am not going to be able to have a vegetable garden this year. biking is good and all (and my second favorite passtime), but bicycles still have to be produced though the mining of some natural resource, making them unsustainable. when it comes down to it, growing your own food is far more important, far less destructive, and far more rewarding than most any other activity you can do on your saturdays (even when those you find that those nasty boring squash moths have destroyed your precious yellow deliciousness).