Friends,
Earlier we watched the movie Idiocracy and throughout the whole film i couldn't help thinking how much I would hate to live in that world. I am so serious, i would despise it so much. When I'm around people, I'd like them to give me an interesting discussion and make me think about things alot. To live in that society would be hellish. But that isnt the point of the movie, it is a very sarcastic movie obviously, warning against the fact how technology and advertising is dumbing our society. THough that is true in some aspects, and is happening humanity is too complex and too diverse for something like this to happen. I mean there will always be those few people who seperate from anyone else, and I didn't see taht at all in this movie. I mean to be honest our society currently is so control oriented that something like this to happen is unrealistic. I the past it wasn't this extreme and now we are at the instance where our own technology is controling what we see and organizing it as well.
Im sorry but even though this movie was hilarious it was also horrifying at the same time. I didn't want to be there to live in a wasteland where life was destroyed to the brink or stupidity.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Friends,
Ok so this passage really pissed me off. You know when you read a book or watch a movie there is that one character that you want to smack in the face or kick in the face to let out your frustration, well for me it's the Commander. Gahhh how pissed I was when I read this.
'''It's a club?' I say.
'Well, that's what we call it, among ourselves. The club.'
'I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden,' I say.
'Well officially,' he says. 'But everyone's human, after all.'
I wait for him to elaborate on this, but he doesn't, so I say, 'What does that mean?'
'It means you can't cheat Nature,' he says. 'Nature demandsvariety, for men. It stands to reason, it's part of the precreational strategy. It's Nature's plan.' I don't say anything, so he goes on.
'Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many clothes, in the old days? To trick men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day.'
He says this and he believes it, but he says many things that way. Maybe he believes it, maybe he doesn't, or maybe he does both at the same times. Impossible to tell what he believes.
'So now that we don't have different clothes,' I say, ' you merely have different women.' This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge it.
'It solves a lot of problems,' he says, without a twitch.
I don't reply to this. I am getting fed up with him. i feel likefreezing on him, passing the rest of the eveningin sulky wordlessness. But I can't afford that and i know it. Whatever this is, it's still an evening out.
What I'd really like to do is talk to the women, but I see scant chance of that.
'Who are these people?' I ask him
...................
'No,' I say, 'I mean the women.'
'Oh,' he says. 'Well, some of them are real pros. Working girls'-- he laughs-- 'from the time before. They couldn't be assimilated; anyway, most of them prefer it here.'
'And the others?'
'The others?' he says. 'Well, we have quite a collection. That one there, the one in green, she's a sociologist. Or was. Thst one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position: some sort of fast food chain or maybe it was hotels. I'm told you can have quite a good conversation with her if all you can feel like is talking. They prefer it here, too.'"
Agh there is so much wrong with this conversation agh!!!!!!! Don't you feel like just punching him!! So Ofglen is taken to a club, but interestingly enough the club is only for the high officials. Ordinary men can't come here. It is funny because the officals are supposed to be the most religious and most dedicated to the laws, but as we see it is the opposite. In these cases, the laws are never placed because of the enforcer's belive in those laws. It's merely because they want something to assert their power. This is again seen in the fact that the prostitutes in the club are mostly 'working girls'. See the Commander doesn't even call them women, he calls them girls. Think about the language he is using when referring to the women is insulting, its as if he is enjoying the position that these women seem to have.
Also when he says that its nature that men have to a variety of women ti be satisfied, but if that is true to him then why aren't other men able to get the same. You see the Commander doesn't really belive that statement in generally, he is mostly talking about himself and all these officials.
It also seems that the Commander believes that women desire to catch men's attention. He says how women used to dress up in different outfits to make others that they are different people. Clearly he hasn't tried to understand women at all, please all he bases his statements are on what he thinks. He probably desired different women and thought this so as to justify his disgusting thoughts. This is seen in how he treats Ofglen as pet instead of an actual woman. It is really weird because considering how woman are the ones who needed the most because they give birth to the children, yet they are treated the worst and thought to be the ones that could destroy society, to the extreme of not even allowing them to read and write.
Atwood is making a very bold statement with this dialogue, and it is obvious when reading it.
Ok let us talk about the Commander in general, because many people seem to like the Commander since he treats Ofglen better than the others. But I absolutely disagree, the Commander is one of the most detestable characters in the book for me. He doesn't see any woman, not even his wife as a person. He doesn't acknowledge the pain that Serena Joy might feel from the fact that he is always woth other women including the Handmaids. He doesn't treat Ofglen in a kind manner, he treats her as we treat a dog. He seems to like to see how uncomfortable she is with everything in the society, which is horrible. He is getting off on it. What is there to like in this guy, He is hypocritical especially. Many peoeple think that the more obvious the villian the more devestating they can be but that isnt true. thOSE WHO CAN SNEAK AROUND ESPecially with acting nice are the most dangerous, and that includes the Commander.
Ok so this passage really pissed me off. You know when you read a book or watch a movie there is that one character that you want to smack in the face or kick in the face to let out your frustration, well for me it's the Commander. Gahhh how pissed I was when I read this.
'''It's a club?' I say.
'Well, that's what we call it, among ourselves. The club.'
'I thought this sort of thing was strictly forbidden,' I say.
'Well officially,' he says. 'But everyone's human, after all.'
I wait for him to elaborate on this, but he doesn't, so I say, 'What does that mean?'
'It means you can't cheat Nature,' he says. 'Nature demandsvariety, for men. It stands to reason, it's part of the precreational strategy. It's Nature's plan.' I don't say anything, so he goes on.
'Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many clothes, in the old days? To trick men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day.'
He says this and he believes it, but he says many things that way. Maybe he believes it, maybe he doesn't, or maybe he does both at the same times. Impossible to tell what he believes.
'So now that we don't have different clothes,' I say, ' you merely have different women.' This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge it.
'It solves a lot of problems,' he says, without a twitch.
I don't reply to this. I am getting fed up with him. i feel likefreezing on him, passing the rest of the eveningin sulky wordlessness. But I can't afford that and i know it. Whatever this is, it's still an evening out.
What I'd really like to do is talk to the women, but I see scant chance of that.
'Who are these people?' I ask him
...................
'No,' I say, 'I mean the women.'
'Oh,' he says. 'Well, some of them are real pros. Working girls'-- he laughs-- 'from the time before. They couldn't be assimilated; anyway, most of them prefer it here.'
'And the others?'
'The others?' he says. 'Well, we have quite a collection. That one there, the one in green, she's a sociologist. Or was. Thst one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position: some sort of fast food chain or maybe it was hotels. I'm told you can have quite a good conversation with her if all you can feel like is talking. They prefer it here, too.'"
Agh there is so much wrong with this conversation agh!!!!!!! Don't you feel like just punching him!! So Ofglen is taken to a club, but interestingly enough the club is only for the high officials. Ordinary men can't come here. It is funny because the officals are supposed to be the most religious and most dedicated to the laws, but as we see it is the opposite. In these cases, the laws are never placed because of the enforcer's belive in those laws. It's merely because they want something to assert their power. This is again seen in the fact that the prostitutes in the club are mostly 'working girls'. See the Commander doesn't even call them women, he calls them girls. Think about the language he is using when referring to the women is insulting, its as if he is enjoying the position that these women seem to have.
Also when he says that its nature that men have to a variety of women ti be satisfied, but if that is true to him then why aren't other men able to get the same. You see the Commander doesn't really belive that statement in generally, he is mostly talking about himself and all these officials.
It also seems that the Commander believes that women desire to catch men's attention. He says how women used to dress up in different outfits to make others that they are different people. Clearly he hasn't tried to understand women at all, please all he bases his statements are on what he thinks. He probably desired different women and thought this so as to justify his disgusting thoughts. This is seen in how he treats Ofglen as pet instead of an actual woman. It is really weird because considering how woman are the ones who needed the most because they give birth to the children, yet they are treated the worst and thought to be the ones that could destroy society, to the extreme of not even allowing them to read and write.
Atwood is making a very bold statement with this dialogue, and it is obvious when reading it.
Ok let us talk about the Commander in general, because many people seem to like the Commander since he treats Ofglen better than the others. But I absolutely disagree, the Commander is one of the most detestable characters in the book for me. He doesn't see any woman, not even his wife as a person. He doesn't acknowledge the pain that Serena Joy might feel from the fact that he is always woth other women including the Handmaids. He doesn't treat Ofglen in a kind manner, he treats her as we treat a dog. He seems to like to see how uncomfortable she is with everything in the society, which is horrible. He is getting off on it. What is there to like in this guy, He is hypocritical especially. Many peoeple think that the more obvious the villian the more devestating they can be but that isnt true. thOSE WHO CAN SNEAK AROUND ESPecially with acting nice are the most dangerous, and that includes the Commander.
Friends,
I have just read one of the most heart-breaking scenes in my life. When I read this passage in the Handmaids Tale, I literally cried. In this passage, Ofglen is given the chance to see her daughter by Serena Joy. But also Serena Joy isn't doing it out of the goodness of her heart. It is obvious by the way she speaks to Ofglen that she particularly enjoys torturing Ofglen in her lowest moment. Which is a pretty disgusting thing because all Ofglen has in this book is low moments where is is really miserable. There are people who say that her personality is not admirable at all but she doesn't have to be. She is a normal woman who still in the past. To be honest I highly admire her for her patience, because that is such a rare thing to see these days, especially in the darkest of times. Never have I seen Ofglen lose her temper, especially with people like the Commander and Serena Joy. If it was me I would be really pissed off. My pride gets in the way, I can't stand people like the Commander or Serena Joy.
So back to the scene in the book. This is the passage:
"I take it from her, turn i t around so I can see right-side up. Is this her, is this what she's like? My treasure.
So tall and changed. Smiling a little now, so soon, and in her white dress as id for an olden-days First Communion.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as id I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. As shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.
But she exists, in her white dress. She grows and lives. Isn't that a good thing? A blessing?
Still, I can't bear it, to have been erased like that. Better she'd brought me nothing.
I still sit at the little table, eating creamed corn with a fork. I have a fork and spoon, but never a knife. When there's meat they cut it up for me ahead of time, as if I'm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That's why I'm not allowed a knife."
Wow that was so powerful. That paragraph is both in of the saddest and best passages I have ever read. The simplicity and passion and despair is so evident. Before this scene it states "'You can have it for a minute,' Serena Joy says, her voice low and conspiratorial. ' I have to return it, before they know it's missing'". See that part is what pisses me off. Serena Joy sees that Ofglen is in her lowest moment and there is no need to push her down but she continues to try to destroy her emotionally. I guess she is trying to do that so that Ofglen and be more obedient than she already is. The human mind can be so confusing sometimes, there at most times never a logical reason we do things. Sometime she just have these urges, we act on our emotions. In Serena Joy's case, she seems to resent Ofglen for the mere fact she has the ability to have children while she can't. Having children could also be associated with Serena's desire to be in a position of higher authority. Because before she was a well-known speaker for the church and now she is the wife of the Commander where the highest prestige she can have is having a child of her own. I guess that is the real reason why she want to have a child so badly, it would explain why she is perfectly fine with taking a child against a mother's will.
I understand what Ofglen is feeling. It isn't only the fact that her lost her daughter that she is upset, it is the fact that even her child has become totally oblivious to her orgins. Only Ofglen knows and acknowledges that she is the mother and without her the truth dies with her. Imagine your child, the child that grew within you, that came from you and sought your presence as a babe, now is growing never to remember that again. Her child is stolen from her.
What I also admire about Ofglen is that even though she is so upset, she is able to later pick herself up in anger. She has this anger and passion that comes out in a vengeance. We know from this that Ofglen is ready to fight back, to make them pay. She will no longer lay there and just do as she is told.. It is her time now. Then Nick comes........
Always,
Nour
I have just read one of the most heart-breaking scenes in my life. When I read this passage in the Handmaids Tale, I literally cried. In this passage, Ofglen is given the chance to see her daughter by Serena Joy. But also Serena Joy isn't doing it out of the goodness of her heart. It is obvious by the way she speaks to Ofglen that she particularly enjoys torturing Ofglen in her lowest moment. Which is a pretty disgusting thing because all Ofglen has in this book is low moments where is is really miserable. There are people who say that her personality is not admirable at all but she doesn't have to be. She is a normal woman who still in the past. To be honest I highly admire her for her patience, because that is such a rare thing to see these days, especially in the darkest of times. Never have I seen Ofglen lose her temper, especially with people like the Commander and Serena Joy. If it was me I would be really pissed off. My pride gets in the way, I can't stand people like the Commander or Serena Joy.
So back to the scene in the book. This is the passage:
"I take it from her, turn i t around so I can see right-side up. Is this her, is this what she's like? My treasure.
So tall and changed. Smiling a little now, so soon, and in her white dress as id for an olden-days First Communion.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as id I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. As shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.
But she exists, in her white dress. She grows and lives. Isn't that a good thing? A blessing?
Still, I can't bear it, to have been erased like that. Better she'd brought me nothing.
I still sit at the little table, eating creamed corn with a fork. I have a fork and spoon, but never a knife. When there's meat they cut it up for me ahead of time, as if I'm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That's why I'm not allowed a knife."
Wow that was so powerful. That paragraph is both in of the saddest and best passages I have ever read. The simplicity and passion and despair is so evident. Before this scene it states "'You can have it for a minute,' Serena Joy says, her voice low and conspiratorial. ' I have to return it, before they know it's missing'". See that part is what pisses me off. Serena Joy sees that Ofglen is in her lowest moment and there is no need to push her down but she continues to try to destroy her emotionally. I guess she is trying to do that so that Ofglen and be more obedient than she already is. The human mind can be so confusing sometimes, there at most times never a logical reason we do things. Sometime she just have these urges, we act on our emotions. In Serena Joy's case, she seems to resent Ofglen for the mere fact she has the ability to have children while she can't. Having children could also be associated with Serena's desire to be in a position of higher authority. Because before she was a well-known speaker for the church and now she is the wife of the Commander where the highest prestige she can have is having a child of her own. I guess that is the real reason why she want to have a child so badly, it would explain why she is perfectly fine with taking a child against a mother's will.
I understand what Ofglen is feeling. It isn't only the fact that her lost her daughter that she is upset, it is the fact that even her child has become totally oblivious to her orgins. Only Ofglen knows and acknowledges that she is the mother and without her the truth dies with her. Imagine your child, the child that grew within you, that came from you and sought your presence as a babe, now is growing never to remember that again. Her child is stolen from her.
What I also admire about Ofglen is that even though she is so upset, she is able to later pick herself up in anger. She has this anger and passion that comes out in a vengeance. We know from this that Ofglen is ready to fight back, to make them pay. She will no longer lay there and just do as she is told.. It is her time now. Then Nick comes........
Always,
Nour
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Friends,
I was reading Handmaid's tale earlier and I wanted to show this particular passage that really intrigued me.
"The sidewalks here are cement. Like a child, I avoid stepping on the cracks. I'm remembering my feet on these sidewalks, in the time before, and what I used to wear on them. Sometimes it was shoes for running, with cushioned soles and breathing holes, and stars of fluorscent fabric that reflected light in the darkness. Though I never ran at night; and in the daytime, only beside well-frequented roads.
Women were not protected then.
I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don't open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. Make him slide his ID under the door. Don't stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, don't turn to look. Don't go into a laundromats, by yourself, at night.
I think about laundromats. What I wore into them: my own clothes, my own soap, my own money, money that I had earned myself. I think about having such control (24)".
This is the debate really that most people bring up when discussing women and their role in society. Woman have to protect themselves from the predators of the world. They lurk in the shadows to take advantage of your weaknesses and women should watch out. Alright I know this has been stated before by many people before but I am going to say it anyway: Woman should not have to learn how not to get raped, men should learn not to rape. Considering all the complications and emotional consequences thet rape victims face there aren't as many convictions as there should be. I see what Atwood is trying to do here. She present such a controversial and true point, yet she also puts the narator's desperations and joy in haviing such a freedom, when the society sees a lack of freedom as the only solution. It is very clever in its own way.
I
I was reading Handmaid's tale earlier and I wanted to show this particular passage that really intrigued me.
"The sidewalks here are cement. Like a child, I avoid stepping on the cracks. I'm remembering my feet on these sidewalks, in the time before, and what I used to wear on them. Sometimes it was shoes for running, with cushioned soles and breathing holes, and stars of fluorscent fabric that reflected light in the darkness. Though I never ran at night; and in the daytime, only beside well-frequented roads.
Women were not protected then.
I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew: Don't open your door to a stranger, even if he says he is the police. Make him slide his ID under the door. Don't stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, don't turn to look. Don't go into a laundromats, by yourself, at night.
I think about laundromats. What I wore into them: my own clothes, my own soap, my own money, money that I had earned myself. I think about having such control (24)".
This is the debate really that most people bring up when discussing women and their role in society. Woman have to protect themselves from the predators of the world. They lurk in the shadows to take advantage of your weaknesses and women should watch out. Alright I know this has been stated before by many people before but I am going to say it anyway: Woman should not have to learn how not to get raped, men should learn not to rape. Considering all the complications and emotional consequences thet rape victims face there aren't as many convictions as there should be. I see what Atwood is trying to do here. She present such a controversial and true point, yet she also puts the narator's desperations and joy in haviing such a freedom, when the society sees a lack of freedom as the only solution. It is very clever in its own way.
I
Friday, December 7, 2012
Friends,
Recently I have watched the movie Children of Men, and WOW. Total blindblow. My head exploded inside with all the awesomeness nad deepness of the film. I know I'm not using very good vocab but u know when I fangirl there is never a need to be articulate, the enthusiasm makes it more fun! I mean I literally went home and rewatched the movie twice. You know what happened? I had the same reaction as I did when I rewatched V for Vendetta. Also a great movie by the way. Ok I am not goping to rant about my favorite movies to you, because you would probably get extremely bored.
Ok back to Children of Men. The story follows a man named Theo, who lives in a world where infertility has plagued women all over the world, and the world is experiencing a difficult time. Man immigrants try to enter the United Kingdom for asylum but the current government comtinually place these immigrants in camps. So when Theo encounters his ex-wife, who also happens to be a leader of a rebel group trying to give rights to immigrants, he is dragged into a different world. Then the director pulls one of those really shocking scenes. Theo agrees to help his ex-wife move a specific immigrant from the border, and on the way she is shot and killed. It really was shocking, but I kind of rellects what happens in real life. You these things are always unexpected, but it didn't help the fact that I waqs feeling this dread clinging to me. Anyways Theo finds out that the woman that he was helping move was actually pregnant and she is entrusted to him when the rebel group tries to use her for their own purposes.
Theo to me is an extremely interesting character, I kinda liked him. In the beginning of the film, Theo seemed to me like a robot that did nothing but what life expected him. Now that I think about it it doesn't really surprise me now because I found out later in the movie that he had a son once and he had died long before. But immediately when Theo was told about the woman's pregnantcy, Theo looked as if he found a purpose. It kindof made me think and feel a little hope for humanity at that moment. A lot of people nowadays say how horrible humans are and that our existence hasd caused nothing but misfortune and destruction. Though that is true I don't feel very negative towards humans that much, I have seen a lot of good in people, but sometimes people forget that. I guess taht is the real question in life these days, how much good and bad should be used to define a person or ourselves. It is an interesting concept ooverall.
I myself have hope in humanity as a whoile. I mean look at where we originated, when we were born we were all adorable babies who were so innocent and pure. I mean when one sees a baby or child laugh they ccannot help but smile. Take the other day, I saw a video of a baby boy laughing hysterically (it was on tumblr) and when I showed it to my parents, I saw wide smiles on their faces, and we are talking about my parents, one of the strictest people you will ever meet. If we originated from such a pure a beautiful tyhing how can we all be so disgusting.
Im not saying that humans are angels, no if I said that then I would be lying big time. The movie itself proves that concept, there are so many war scenes with people being shot at and gumfire being fired... it reminded me of the video s of the Syrian revolution that I watch everyday. It was said and I felt like crying. But in the end when the woman walks with her baby girll down the road all the gunfire stopped and everyone was staring. You see taht baby was a new hope fpr them and that made them all together stop their fighting. In the sight of something so precious and great in our eyes, we can't help but feel shamefu land what we are doing. I was crying when I saw the characters kneel down and pray. For the first time in a long time I saw somewone see humans not as sinners who wioll be damned and diisgusting things, I saw us as people who could be forgiven, who could always stand up and move on whenever a bump in the road came. You know we humans can be really great at times, but in the purest of forms. There is no need to e arrogant, because that is what will destroy the bliss.
Sincerely,
Nour
Recently I have watched the movie Children of Men, and WOW. Total blindblow. My head exploded inside with all the awesomeness nad deepness of the film. I know I'm not using very good vocab but u know when I fangirl there is never a need to be articulate, the enthusiasm makes it more fun! I mean I literally went home and rewatched the movie twice. You know what happened? I had the same reaction as I did when I rewatched V for Vendetta. Also a great movie by the way. Ok I am not goping to rant about my favorite movies to you, because you would probably get extremely bored.
Ok back to Children of Men. The story follows a man named Theo, who lives in a world where infertility has plagued women all over the world, and the world is experiencing a difficult time. Man immigrants try to enter the United Kingdom for asylum but the current government comtinually place these immigrants in camps. So when Theo encounters his ex-wife, who also happens to be a leader of a rebel group trying to give rights to immigrants, he is dragged into a different world. Then the director pulls one of those really shocking scenes. Theo agrees to help his ex-wife move a specific immigrant from the border, and on the way she is shot and killed. It really was shocking, but I kind of rellects what happens in real life. You these things are always unexpected, but it didn't help the fact that I waqs feeling this dread clinging to me. Anyways Theo finds out that the woman that he was helping move was actually pregnant and she is entrusted to him when the rebel group tries to use her for their own purposes.
Theo to me is an extremely interesting character, I kinda liked him. In the beginning of the film, Theo seemed to me like a robot that did nothing but what life expected him. Now that I think about it it doesn't really surprise me now because I found out later in the movie that he had a son once and he had died long before. But immediately when Theo was told about the woman's pregnantcy, Theo looked as if he found a purpose. It kindof made me think and feel a little hope for humanity at that moment. A lot of people nowadays say how horrible humans are and that our existence hasd caused nothing but misfortune and destruction. Though that is true I don't feel very negative towards humans that much, I have seen a lot of good in people, but sometimes people forget that. I guess taht is the real question in life these days, how much good and bad should be used to define a person or ourselves. It is an interesting concept ooverall.
I myself have hope in humanity as a whoile. I mean look at where we originated, when we were born we were all adorable babies who were so innocent and pure. I mean when one sees a baby or child laugh they ccannot help but smile. Take the other day, I saw a video of a baby boy laughing hysterically (it was on tumblr) and when I showed it to my parents, I saw wide smiles on their faces, and we are talking about my parents, one of the strictest people you will ever meet. If we originated from such a pure a beautiful tyhing how can we all be so disgusting.
Im not saying that humans are angels, no if I said that then I would be lying big time. The movie itself proves that concept, there are so many war scenes with people being shot at and gumfire being fired... it reminded me of the video s of the Syrian revolution that I watch everyday. It was said and I felt like crying. But in the end when the woman walks with her baby girll down the road all the gunfire stopped and everyone was staring. You see taht baby was a new hope fpr them and that made them all together stop their fighting. In the sight of something so precious and great in our eyes, we can't help but feel shamefu land what we are doing. I was crying when I saw the characters kneel down and pray. For the first time in a long time I saw somewone see humans not as sinners who wioll be damned and diisgusting things, I saw us as people who could be forgiven, who could always stand up and move on whenever a bump in the road came. You know we humans can be really great at times, but in the purest of forms. There is no need to e arrogant, because that is what will destroy the bliss.
Sincerely,
Nour
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Friends,
Ok I know that what I am about to say might not be completely relevant to the wholeness of the plot of Susan Beth Pfeffer's book Life As We Knew It, but this certain thing un the book really bothered me. So on page 247 it states,
"Mom hobbled her way (which she probably shouldn't have done) into the pantry this afternon. Matt and Jonny were doing their wood-chopping things.
I left Mom alone in the pantry for a while (I'm losing all sense of time), but then I figured I'd better make sure she hadn't fallen. So I went into the panty and found her sitting on the floor weeping. I put my arm around her shoulder and let her cry. After a while she calmed down and then she embraced me. I helped her up and she leaned on me as we went back to the sunroom.
I have never loved Mom as much as I love her now. I almost feel like some of Mrs. Nesbitt's love for Mom has seeped into me."
Ok so when I first read this I was a bit annoyed at Miranda a this point. I mean from the beginning of the book she has been acting like a spoiled child. When she and her family were at the grocery store, all Miranda did was complain and whine. I mean when the world is in such a chaotic period, you would think she had the decency to stop complaining every five seconds. And I'm not a huge fan of her mother but what she was doing at the times seemed extremely practical to me. She asked to get water, canned food, band-aid, vitamins. . . if you ask me she is a genius compared to Miranda, who seemed only like a cry baby throughout the whole ordeal. So back to this quote. After seeing what Miranda had said and argued with her mom about, I was really annoyed when I read this. Why? Because she just randomly says that she loves her mom when she is at her weakest point. I hate the idea that Miranda starts to confromt her love for her mother just because she showed her moment of weakness. What kind of message does that give people?
Ok I know that what I am about to say might not be completely relevant to the wholeness of the plot of Susan Beth Pfeffer's book Life As We Knew It, but this certain thing un the book really bothered me. So on page 247 it states,
"Mom hobbled her way (which she probably shouldn't have done) into the pantry this afternon. Matt and Jonny were doing their wood-chopping things.
I left Mom alone in the pantry for a while (I'm losing all sense of time), but then I figured I'd better make sure she hadn't fallen. So I went into the panty and found her sitting on the floor weeping. I put my arm around her shoulder and let her cry. After a while she calmed down and then she embraced me. I helped her up and she leaned on me as we went back to the sunroom.
I have never loved Mom as much as I love her now. I almost feel like some of Mrs. Nesbitt's love for Mom has seeped into me."
Ok so when I first read this I was a bit annoyed at Miranda a this point. I mean from the beginning of the book she has been acting like a spoiled child. When she and her family were at the grocery store, all Miranda did was complain and whine. I mean when the world is in such a chaotic period, you would think she had the decency to stop complaining every five seconds. And I'm not a huge fan of her mother but what she was doing at the times seemed extremely practical to me. She asked to get water, canned food, band-aid, vitamins. . . if you ask me she is a genius compared to Miranda, who seemed only like a cry baby throughout the whole ordeal. So back to this quote. After seeing what Miranda had said and argued with her mom about, I was really annoyed when I read this. Why? Because she just randomly says that she loves her mom when she is at her weakest point. I hate the idea that Miranda starts to confromt her love for her mother just because she showed her moment of weakness. What kind of message does that give people?
Sunday, October 28, 2012
To be honest, though i loved the idea of the Feed and the implication it could cause, the way the author displays it seems rather dull. I mean sure Titus and his friends were stupid, and what happened to Violet was not fair but come on come up with something new already! The beginning of the book Titus just drones on and on about how boring his life is. The common phrases and ways of the futuristic community are also displayed, and it sounded a bit clique. The future according to the author is doomed to a world of stupid people if not careful, but mostly this situation would only happen if the rest of the world was as consumerist and technology obssessed as the United States or Europe is. There are millions of people who haven't even heard of half of the stuff we use in our daily lives. For example, people who live in North Korea still use technology from the 1970s, most of the technology is used by the government because they want to develop their own weapons against other nations. You see what the author suggests through the feed simply will not happen.
In the context of the Feed itself, the author is obviosly negative towards the idea. He displays the stupidity of the whole group plainly through their idiotic use of slang (especially with the adults like Titus' dad) and attitude towards life. These people with the feed don't seem to have any real interest in live in general. Their only interest is their own selfs, which is plainly seen through Titus' treatmen of Violet in the end of the book.
In the context of the Feed itself, the author is obviosly negative towards the idea. He displays the stupidity of the whole group plainly through their idiotic use of slang (especially with the adults like Titus' dad) and attitude towards life. These people with the feed don't seem to have any real interest in live in general. Their only interest is their own selfs, which is plainly seen through Titus' treatmen of Violet in the end of the book.
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