In Class Assignment
-My most significant observation that I made about this short story called beyond the door, is that the writer really tries to bring you into his stories meaning that he is trying to make you feel what the character or characters feel. It seems like the writer is really trying to bring some action into his writing and I like the fact that he doesn’t explain everything in great detail, he gives enough information without giving you two much.
-I think that the husband in the story is very lonely (His wife left him and the cuckoo clock hates him)
-Protagonist
-Romantic partner
-Artificial life
-Not a lot of time for character development
-Very realistic (Could Happen)
-Paranoia
-Loneliness
Author
- Easy to understand
- Humorous stories
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
THE DROWNED GIANT J. G. Ballard
This Week im reading a short story called The Drowned Giant By: JG BAllard and first of all I must metion that this is in the Genre of Science Fiction. When I first started to read this story I had to reread the first couple of pages... for me it was a harder story to understand and I believe that it is this way because they are describing every little thing in great detail about the Giant and its Confusing . Also they are talking about how many people are there and when they are there and where they stood on the Giant. I don't think that the author really needed to explain all of that, he could have done it in a much shorter story or he could have even made the story longer with other important things.. I just think it unnecessary. Now for a brief description of the story.... So basically there is this giant that had drowned and he has been washed up on the shore everyone heard the news and went down to see this giant and it was huge I must add.. well this guy found out about it and was fascinated by it so he returned everyday and more and more people came to see, eventually it started to decay and less people came from then on. Some people took pieces of the Giant some went into a museum but eventually there was nothing left and the guy no longer went and seen the giant... that's basically wat the story is its alot longer than that and way more detail, but honestly I didn't really see the point to this story, its about a decaying body what more is there to tell. This story really wasn't for me.
Blood Child Oct 22
This week I read Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler, this is a short story from the category of diverse position of science fiction and this story I have to say was very weird and was a little bit hard for me to read I think mostly because it was very confusing and then that made it so I didn’t like it all that much. First it really revealed information slowly, and it steers you into the dark but then in the end she brings the whole story together. But I do think its interesting how the author set the story up. So in this story there are these creatures with 4 limbs and many meters long. They drink some type of eggs that make them live longer. But the mother of these creatures wouldn’t drink the eggs, I don’t think she drank them because she was at her wits end, she is tired of being used. This alien species are trying to use humans as a host for reproduction. This story is a bit displaced because the guy is having a baby. I felt bad for the mother’s sun because his fate has been decided for him, but in the end he is the real hero because he has saved his sister from having to go through this whole being pregnant thing and birthing process. So if you like wired and really gruesome stories this might be the one for you, go check it out
Twilight Oct 15
The novel that I have read for this week is called Twilight and its by Stephenie Meyer and I think that its in the category of horror. This novel is about a girl who falls in love with a school boy, who ends up being a vampire that she can’t get her mind off of and pretty much in the end she wants to become a vampire so that she can live with him forever.
This book starts of by having us meet the characters pretty much one by one which don’t get me wrong I like that but, I don’t like when a story drags on and on about one character in particular. Stephenie doesn’t really drag it on for too long but defiantly long enough. So basically this novel starts off by bringing you in pretty slow, she goes through every detail, so you feel like your there and this is really happening. Which is all good but I really don’t think that you need all of that detail you could probably cut it back some and still get your point across just fine. I really like that this book is easy to read a really easy to follow so just about anyone in any age group can read it. In the character development aspect they are very well developed. And in contrast with all of the other characters when Edward’s story is being developed she doesn’t’ give to much away in the beginning, which really draws you in and make’s you want to know more about the him, it just gets you really involved with his character. Even though the story starts off slow towards the middle of it, it really picks up a lot and its sucks you in.
If you are someone who likes a good romance novel with hint of action and horror this will be a great book for you, it’s a very easy and interesting read.
This book starts of by having us meet the characters pretty much one by one which don’t get me wrong I like that but, I don’t like when a story drags on and on about one character in particular. Stephenie doesn’t really drag it on for too long but defiantly long enough. So basically this novel starts off by bringing you in pretty slow, she goes through every detail, so you feel like your there and this is really happening. Which is all good but I really don’t think that you need all of that detail you could probably cut it back some and still get your point across just fine. I really like that this book is easy to read a really easy to follow so just about anyone in any age group can read it. In the character development aspect they are very well developed. And in contrast with all of the other characters when Edward’s story is being developed she doesn’t’ give to much away in the beginning, which really draws you in and make’s you want to know more about the him, it just gets you really involved with his character. Even though the story starts off slow towards the middle of it, it really picks up a lot and its sucks you in.
If you are someone who likes a good romance novel with hint of action and horror this will be a great book for you, it’s a very easy and interesting read.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Press Ann
This week I read a short story called Press Ann by Terry Bisson, and it’s from The Mammoth book of comic fantasy. First off all I must say that this little story was a bit weird and confusing, it did however start out fine, it was this girls birthday and she was going to go out with friends but she had to pay for everything so she needed to go to the flash and cash atm but when she did the atm was talking to her and trying get in her life basically. This story is weird because you usually don’t see atm machines that can actually talk and basically have a human brain, and no exactly what is going on with you at that time, but still acts like a machine. I kind of like the slower reveal of information in this story but once more things start happening and its getting better you expect the author to sum up everything in the end, but that doesn’t happen which is big bummer. The author really doesn’t develop his actors much in this story but, definitely tries to through the atm machine but really doesn’t manage to do that all that well
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Golden Compass
The “Golden Compass” is the first novel of the Dark Materials Trilogy. The Main character Lyra Belacqua is an orphaned twelve year old girl living at Jordan College, Oxford with her daemon Pantalaimon, or Pan. A daemon is essentially a person's soul that takes on animal forms. During childhood the daemon can shape shift at will until the person has reached maturity. At the beginning of the book, Lyra and Pan sneak into the forbidden “retiring room” and over hear her uncle, Lord Asriel, talk to his fellow scholars about the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights, and a mysterious elementary particle called Dust and how he plans to exploit its abilities to reach other dimensions or other “worlds.” After Lord Asriel's departure, Lyra overhears, from her friends, a rumor about Gobblers who have been kidnapping children. Later on Roger, Lyra's closest friend, is discovered to be kidnapped by these fiends. Determined to rescue him, Lyra plans are interrupted by a visitor, Ms. Coulter, who recruits Lyra as an apprentice. Before leaving, lyra is given, with the condition that she tell no one about it, a compass, or the alethiometer, that has many dials that can tell a person anything they need to know, by the master of the college who says that it originally belonged to Lord Asriel.
Leaving with Ms. Coulter, Lyra is at first, very fond of the woman, but later becomes more uneasy. Ms. Coulter's daemon, which is a golden monkey, was caught looking through Lyra's things, which Pan told Lyra, most likely looking for the compass. The two quickly escape, after the incident and finding out that Ms. Coulter is the head of the “Gobblers.” After being chased they are picked up by Gypsies, who Lyra is friends with some of their children. The Gypsies, who have had their own children taken from them by the Gobblers are planning a search and rescue mission to save all the children. Lyra discovers, from one of the Gypsies, that Lord Asriel and Ms. Coulter are her biological parents as well. During her time with the Gypsies, Lyra learns how to properly read the alethiometer and gains the companionship of an exiled polar bear named Iorek Byrnson. During the search, Lyra is kidnapped by the Gobblers and discovers that they are separating children from their daemons and essentially killing them. After a series of daring moves and almost getting separated, or cut away from, Pan, Lyra frees the children and escapes on a hydrogen balloon, piloted by Lee Scoresby. Lee then takes Lyra, Roger, and Iorek to Lord Asriel, who is being held captive in Iorek's homeland, Svalbard. The church, not agreeing with Asriel's explorations, has imprisoned him in order to shut him up. Upon reaching Svalbard, Lyra meets with the current king, Iofur, who tricked and exiled Iorek, into fighting with Iorek so that he may gain his rightful throne back. Iorek successfully wins the fight, and kills Iofur. After the victory, Lyra and Roger continue their way to Asirel and discover that he had been working on his research even while being imprisoned due to his influential nature. Lyra soon finds out that Lord Asriel never needed the alethiometer, like she originally thought, but instead he needed Roger. Asriel takes Roger outside and murders him by killing Roger's daemon. By severing the connection between child and daemon, he released a high amount of energy. With the energy and his specialized equipment, Lord Asriel was able to open a portal to another world and soon disappears. Pan tells Lyra to follow him, and Lyra, devastated by her mistake, follows Asriel into the portal.
Leaving with Ms. Coulter, Lyra is at first, very fond of the woman, but later becomes more uneasy. Ms. Coulter's daemon, which is a golden monkey, was caught looking through Lyra's things, which Pan told Lyra, most likely looking for the compass. The two quickly escape, after the incident and finding out that Ms. Coulter is the head of the “Gobblers.” After being chased they are picked up by Gypsies, who Lyra is friends with some of their children. The Gypsies, who have had their own children taken from them by the Gobblers are planning a search and rescue mission to save all the children. Lyra discovers, from one of the Gypsies, that Lord Asriel and Ms. Coulter are her biological parents as well. During her time with the Gypsies, Lyra learns how to properly read the alethiometer and gains the companionship of an exiled polar bear named Iorek Byrnson. During the search, Lyra is kidnapped by the Gobblers and discovers that they are separating children from their daemons and essentially killing them. After a series of daring moves and almost getting separated, or cut away from, Pan, Lyra frees the children and escapes on a hydrogen balloon, piloted by Lee Scoresby. Lee then takes Lyra, Roger, and Iorek to Lord Asriel, who is being held captive in Iorek's homeland, Svalbard. The church, not agreeing with Asriel's explorations, has imprisoned him in order to shut him up. Upon reaching Svalbard, Lyra meets with the current king, Iofur, who tricked and exiled Iorek, into fighting with Iorek so that he may gain his rightful throne back. Iorek successfully wins the fight, and kills Iofur. After the victory, Lyra and Roger continue their way to Asirel and discover that he had been working on his research even while being imprisoned due to his influential nature. Lyra soon finds out that Lord Asriel never needed the alethiometer, like she originally thought, but instead he needed Roger. Asriel takes Roger outside and murders him by killing Roger's daemon. By severing the connection between child and daemon, he released a high amount of energy. With the energy and his specialized equipment, Lord Asriel was able to open a portal to another world and soon disappears. Pan tells Lyra to follow him, and Lyra, devastated by her mistake, follows Asriel into the portal.
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