![]() ![]() 'Proper' English), and the story was not hindered by the others inability to speak in this way. The main characters were all free to speak 'old' (i.e. ![]() However, I felt this was handled wonderfully. I loved the concept of this book, but I must admit I thought it would extremely difficult for the author to convey a world in which most of the characters were extremely limited in their vocabulary. So what would life be like to live in a world without words? Without the ability to express hopes or dreams? Her job is to distribute 'The List' a set of 500 words that the citizens of Ark are allowed to use. Letta is an apprentice wordsmith in the city of Ark, a dystopian world where all technology and animals have been destroyed in a great flood. Each of us is all that we have been, all our stories, all that we could be'. 'The here and now is only the smallest part of who we are. ![]()
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