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.