Blog Set 4

 

 

   "The Star"

The story "The Star" by H.G Wells was very slow and hard to pick up, I thought it was boring but, interning at the same. I thought it was weird how everyone reacted to the fact that the world was ending. Everyone kept going on with their life and activities, it was almost like they didn't care. Everyone just accepted the fact that they was going to die and they seem to be okay with it. It was about a head full of people who was actually scared running trying to go to church's before the big bang. This story remind me of the world today and how people just accept a lot of things that are happening in their life, people know they cant change key things that's going on so, they just accept it in keep moving on with life.

 

"Speech Sounds"

 The world population has been infected with a virus that takes away a person speech and other key things people need in their everyday life. Valerie who is a young woman who survived the virus that killed her three children and husband. Another main character was an man named Obsidian, in the story I saw him as a protector, he was the good guy. As I was reading this story, I notice it never told us were the virus came from or how it popped up. which made me think maybe its not the virus that's making these people do crazy things, maybe it their lack of communication. As humans we have this thing were we like to express our emotions and how we feel, with the virus taking that away may caused them to go crazy .I also though it was cool how Val and Obsidian found ways to communicate. The end of the story surprised me when I found out Val could talk all along.

UPDATE

Blog 3

In this; story That Only a Mother by Judith Merril (1948)  It talks about how radiation cam mess up a child's birth, by the parent being around it. it talks about an expecting mother named Margaret who is at home having thoughts about her child, think will she be fine or will she come out like the other children. All throughout the story Margaret seems to be blinded about the truth about her child. she was writing to her husband letting him know the  child is okay in normal. I also notice when she was reading about the mutations in Hiroshima she keeps repeating to herself, “but my baby’s all right.” she kept lying to herself not trying to believe the truth. one her husband finally came home to see his baby, he was in shock to see that his baby is limbless. the perfect picture of a child that his wife put together for home was gone. at the end of the store it seems like her husband killed the child , “His fingers tightened on his child- oh god, she didn’t know…” . I think as a mother Margaret did the same thing that any mother would do, she loved her child, in looked past all of it flaws.

In We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling(1989), it basically talks about how Arabs look at America, he descripts as greedy and money hungry  “It is very easy to buy Americans. The mention of money brightens them like a shot of drugs” (pg.613).  he also talked about how American women was sex symbols for American mans he says we  "dressed in a way intended to provoke lust" which I think is not just American women but all women. do a litter extra to get what they want.  at the end of the story Charlie sets up Boston by sharing some cocaine that was laced with a virus. he also says how religion had a lot to do with what he did, which I think is a lie, I think it was really because of hate.



Update :I wasn't in class to really give any update, but after reading some of my classmates blogs, I can tell that "only a Mother was big topic, and I also find it funny that a lot of their updates n post was about how crazy they mother was.

"Passengers" and "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (Blog 2)

The story "Out of All Them Bright Stars" was kind of weird, I thought the story was going to be about big bad aliens, but it turn out to be the total opposite. the story was about a nice gentle alien that walk in to an dinner to have lunch, and was greeted by a waiter. She was the only one that treated him like a person, everyone else saw him as a blue outsider. The story was weird to me because when I think of aliens I think of weird looking creatures trying to take over the world, but john wasn't nothing like that he was nice in kind, even when the owner treated him bad. This story made me think of  racism and how people get mistreated .


The Story "Passengers" was nothing like "Out of All Them Bright Stars". that story made you think of freedom. Are you yourself or are you an alien. the story reminded me a lot of a movie that I saw named Host, its about how aliens who came in took over humans body, in people didn't know if their love ones was an alien or themselves.




UPDATE: In class we talked about "Out  of All The Bright Stars and how it relates to the real world, and how people go around judging people everyday. I also found out that I wasn't the only one who didn't like the length of the story

Introduction (Blog Set 1)

Hello my name is Shanteria parks, I am 21 years and I am super excited to start this class. One my favorite shows is Charmed, I use to watch it with my mom when I was a kid. Watching that show made me love super natural things. It also made me want to read and watch shows similar like that.