Thoughts of the future in my lifetime and beyond. Honestly
the thought about the future to me is scary, scary because it is something
unknown there is no telling in what direction time can lead us. Tragedies and
events we may not want to happen may become a reality, such as a death of
someone close or the end of something that makes one happy. Although there is
also the comforting fact that there maybe beautiful blessings awaiting us to
encounter them, like the birth of a child or the introduction to something new.
The future for my generations I believe will hold many new things such as
technology, the legalization of certain things and a female president. But I
also feel concern because of the lifestyles we as a whole live, the over usage
of the earths resources, the diets we have, the social media etc. In a very
distant future imagine a lazy society where almost everything is done by some
use of technology, which could involve in losses of jobs health issues and the
dependency of technology to survive. I can also see the cure for certain
diseases, viruses, and medical advancements. The possibility of encountering
life on another planet or maybe we migrate onto another planet, space
discoveries etc.
Literature of Horror, Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Week Thirteen: Literary Speculation
After having read aquatic
uncle and all at one point, there were similarities between the short stories.
Such as a family member/figure and the people associated with them, and how
they affect them. Although both are set in different places and use different
people the effects of the family members are similar. In one story they are
positive and in the other negative/bias. In the aquatic uncle there is a
distinction between viewpoints of both generations, and thoughts on the world
around them and what they know, which eventually leads to the narrators love to
leave with the uncle and fall in love with him because she agrees with his
viewpoints over the narrators. In all at one point in a uncomfortably spaced
society one figure was the comforting mother like one and no one speaks badly
about her. She is greatly missed by all the different families who share a
space with each other and have differences or dislikes towards each other.
Nonetheless both express a family like figure who affects the lives around them
and plays a role in their lives.
Week Twelve: Diverse Position Science Fiction
For this week I ended up
reading I live with you by Carol Emshwiller. It was an interesting short read
because it kept me wondering whom the person narrating the story was. It had a
sense of mystery to it, because who ever it was, was in control of the situations
over someone else’s life. They mad decisions for Nora that her herself wouldn’t
have made. It was a confusing read because I never found out who the person
narrating was and I don’t know if I was or wasn’t suppose to. I assume that is
part of the story to have the reader confused and keep them wondering. Anyhow I
found it interesting because it took two random people who never met each other
and introduced them by involving someone else who was in control of the setup.
These two Nora and Willard would’ve never met each other because they were both
unnoticed and we kind of used to that. Both living single/lonely lives. The
story in my opinion doesn’t connect with a
majoritarian culture because unlike a majoritarian culture in this story
one person was making the decision similar to a dictatorship. Making the other
2 involved puppets of situations brought together by someone who wanted to see
a certain outcome.
Week Ten:The Fiction of Ideas
For this week I decided to
read the short story the drowned giant. It is a story about a giant who washes
up on a shore and draws a lot of attention towards it from the people
inhabiting the city near it. The narrator is part of a group of friends who are
doing a report and is fascinated by the giant and his existence. He attends the
beach throughout a period of time and notices the likeness the giant shares
with humanity besides of course the size. Throughout the days he notices the
changes the giants body goes through and the people who come to visit examining
/researching the giant. He feels that even with the giant’s immense size he
still believes he shares similar vulnerabilities, making him feel connected in
some way, as if some kind of re creation of the giant. The idea expressed is
that in the story the narrator felt as though we were some tiny imperfect
copies compared to this giant fascinating being who washed up on shore, and
that whether people wanted to believe it or not he was real.
Week Nine: Space Opera
For this week I decided to
read the short story 9 billion names of God. Where a group of monks believes
that when they can figure out the 9 billion names of God that humanity as a
whole has served its purpose for existence. They believe that God will then end
the world, as we know it. They devise an alphabet where after all their
calculations would turn out to be about 9 billion names, and even through their
research it would take an additional 15,000 years to come to the conclusion.
Instead they want to finish this task by a quicker means and decide to use a
machine of modern technology called the mark V computer. They end up hiring two
men that will know how to operate and maintain the computer to make their
results appear with in 3 months. During this process one of the men becomes
worried that the monks will blame the computer and them because they believe
the task will fail. Although one of the men tells the other of a story where when
he was a kid there was a preacher who said the world would end and it didn’t,
his followers ended up selling their homes and believed the preacher was
correct in his prophecy. And even after finding out the world didn’t end they
didn’t revolt against him they just believed he had made a mistake in his
calculations and continued believing him. The other man how ever didn’t think
that would happen in their case so he decided to postpone the computers results
until their scheduled departure just in case. Only to realize that on their way
to their departure destination the machine would be finishing up its results,
and noticed that the stars began to disappear reinforcing that fact the monks
were right all along. The Story brings an interesting aspect of a belief in God
and how some people may find others beliefs bizarre, it shows us that we can
believe what we want but it doesn’t mean we are correct and that others are
wrong if they don’t believe in the same things.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Week Seven: The Novel of Spiritual Education
This
fantasy genre is geared towards the teen readers who are going through certain
changes in their lives and sometimes have no one to talk to about them or no
where to go to understand what they are going through. Many of the books in
this genre help them see another persons experience set in fantasy worlds,
where even if they don’t live in them they can relate because the life lessons
are similar. Growing up I can admit I was never into Harry Potter even though
almost anywhere I looked it was being sold. I can recall being assigned to read
one of the books in middle school and never really gained an interest towards
the series, but it made me wonder what the hype /craze was about. It wasn’t
until the movies began to appear that I began to get my feet wet as to what the
books were all about. The fantasy world, the characters and the creativity of
the books and films made me a bit interested because it involved magic, drama
and friendship. Although I believe I liked it most because of the characters
and how closely I could relate in terms of age, situations they got themselves
into, and things most teens go through. I can definitely say it was a part of
my adolescence and can see the big impact it had on my generation. And although
I’ve only read 2 of the books seen two of the movies, and have been to the
theme park attractions, I wouldn’t consider myself a die hard fan of the series
but I can definitely appreciate and respect it because it was part of my youth
and continued into my 20s, which connected me in some way with the characters as
they grew older with me.
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