I guess I’ve always though of a hero as someone you root for, and I can’t say that these ladies give me a lot to root for.\u00a0 Are they heroines in terms of what?\u00a0 In defiance of The Man? Jael would win that one.\u00a0 In terms of character growth?\u00a0 Jeannine being more assertive, not needing to marry Cal, or going through with it so that we see it – maybe that is heroic.\u00a0 But I would not go so far as to call any one of the four J’s a heroine.\u00a0 And maybe the most heroic action comes on the part of Janet as they sit in the cafe, or diner, when she refuses to let Jael’s army put a base on Whileaway.\u00a0 Janet doesn’t understand men, doesn’t have to deal with them, but it doesn’t mean she wants them eliminated.\u00a0 There is potentially the type of green ray with a fifty-mile raduis that Jael’s world could bombard Whileaway with, but that possibility doesn’t hinder her decision.\u00a0 (But I grew up Mennonite, so it figures that I applaude that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I guess I’ve always though of a hero as someone you root for, and I can’t say that these ladies give me a lot to root for.\u00a0 Are they heroines in terms of what?\u00a0 In defiance of The Man? Jael would win that one.\u00a0 In terms of character growth?\u00a0 Jeannine being more assertive, not needing … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}