My Final

My Final assessment piece is going to be on the Golden Compass, I have found this novel quite interesting although I had a tough time reading it and within such a short time, but once I got into it wasn't to bad, I managed to read the entire book over a two week period. i like the fact that the Golden Compass is toned down to a level of readability by a younger audience, but many of its themes and allusions are more than heavy enough for adults, I really enjoyed reading this book it had alot of adventure in it which i love reading about, and just different things that people do to get themselves into trouble and out of trouble, overcoming obstacles and helping others.
the author has started off this novel very slow throughout the first couple of chapters which in my opinion is hard to stay focused, because it just seems like they drag it on alittle bit long. definitely after the chapters it starts to pick up and it gets the story moving along quite nicely.In the this world there are many weird things that happen for example, Lyra is drawn into events beyond what she can understand at the outset because she is a critical figure in the events that will emerge.
I really like the character development, and I especially like how they included orphans and just people that you wouldn't normally think of or hear about in a book, it's nice to see alittle bit of difference in authors characters. I think it awesome that they have armored bears, they are very convincing creatures.
The one thing that i hate about the ending is that it resolves one issue but it then just gives you another it doesn't ever end anyways for all of you readers out there this novel may be long but it is a very interesting and good read if your looking and haven't read it, anyways good luck.

The Paper Clip

The short story that I have read for this week is called paper clip and it’s by Arthur Colin, and it is in the genre of science fiction. This short story is a very interesting read due to the fact that it is about paper clips and little tubes that send them from peoples cubicles to this ladies cubicle so that she can do the most important job of sending the paper clips to a incinerator. If you ask me I don’t that that’s a very important job. This author doesn’t really have that much time to develop any character backgrounds, which really is too bad because I think that it would really help his story out a lot. I didn’t really see a lot of elements of science fiction in this story except for one the use of nanotechnology. I think its very confusing how Arthur Colin ended the story, it didn’t seem to make a lot of since to me the girl that does the paper clips gets fired from her job and then goes down the golden elevator with her new boss who shoves her out and she lands on her face. I don’t know what to think off the ending.

An EYE for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth

This week I read a short story called An Eye for an Eye and a tooth for a tooth, its by Lawrence Schimel and it’s from The Mammoth book of comic fantasy. First off this is a really strange story it is like deep dark horrifying tooth fairy story, and if I were a little kid reading this I would defiantly not ever want to loose any teeth again as well as sleep again, just because of all the horrifying elements of this story. This girl lost her eyeball her teeth and something in her ear so she couldn’t hear anything anymore. The author of this story doesn’t take a whole lot of time out to develop her character but does try to describe a few things about her while telling the story of when she was little and liked to get money from the tooth fairy. I do however like the way that the author turned a fairytale story into a horror story and kind of change the way that we perceive those types of creatures we all no and love and it kind of makes me think a little bit about and now im wondering maybe if the tooth fairy is this way the maybe Santa clause and the Easter bunny are not so nice but are actually the bad guys. Maybe Santa really takes kids and makes them toys are maybe the Easter bunny is made up of eggs or something really strange like that, I don’t know it could happen.

The Aquatic Uncle..Nov 5

For this weeks blog I have just read a short story called the Aquatic Uncle by Italo Calvino. fist of all i must say this was a very interesting little story and if your reading this and haven't read it yet, i recommend that you do, it has some interesting theories of evaluation. I especially love how the author keeps you guessing what these land creatures are and even the water fish, i mean he gives you slight clues of what they could be near the beginning of the story but not enough to actually know for sure. they talk about how toads have warts and stuff so it kind of gives you the clue that they could be frogs or something but your still wondering about the uncle. I also like the fact that they brought a girl frog into this and that the land frog was going to marry her but then it put a very bazaar twist on the end and she ended up learning how to swim and she basically became like a tadpole and married the boys uncle. which i thought was alittle bit weird that they got married because he is supposed to be this very old fish and she's so young. I really like how this story tells you what the authors version of evaluation is and how they think it came to be.. like i said before really great short story, and if you ever have anytime you should take a sec to chill and get away from the world, and read the aquatic uncle

In Class Writing

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

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