Yes, Denver is a more important character in this novel than Beloved. It is Denver whose growth from a young girl into a woman that readers follow: we see Denver struggle to develop an identity that includes her mother and her father (who she's never known), then to form a relationship with the strange Beloved (whose identity Denver figures out long before anyone else seems to), then to save her mother (and herself) when Beloved begins to consume Sethe. Beloved is a ghost, she's the past, she's the nightmare of slavery: she is almost all these things more than she ever is a true character. Denver, on the other hand, isn't a symbol; she's a real person in this text. She is dynamic and complex, with a past and a future. She is the hope for the future that there can be a life after slavery.
As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
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