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Oryx and Crake 2

In the multinational corporation compounds men and women were treated equal. Jimmy’s parents could demonstrate this; both of them had well paying jobs and when Jimmy’s mom escaped, it tells us that women had the power and freedom to do whatever they want.  However in the “cities” villagers would sell (they refer it as transaction) their children for money. Oryx was one of the children being sold. “Fewer boys were sold than girls, but they were not therefore more valued” (Atwood, 121), but girls were more favored in the business because they are pretty, obedient, nice teeth, and a charming smile. In the “city” society there were no major gender segregation but girls were preferred.

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Oryx’s career of a porn star started when she was selling flowers, men would approach her, “she was to go into the hotel with him. He would want to take her up to his room” (Atwood, 131). At first nothing would happen in the rooms because Uncle En would crash the situation forcing the man to give him all his money. When Uncle En dies, other people took her and she began to do more extreme things.

Literature Web: The Veldt

Key Words

Illusion

Technology

Mechanical cemetery

fabrication

Feelings

Moral conviction

Pity

Remorseful

Distress

Restlessness

Disturbed

neglected

Ideas

Moral erosion

Parenting

Tech too advance

Psych-manipulation

Family falls apart

Images/Symbols

Lions

Bloody wallet

Death

Nursery

Locked doors

Vultures

Africa/safari

heat

Structure

Short story

Dialogue

Foreshadowing

Third person narration

Pre-Seminar Response: The Value of Science

Response:

Every so often people believe that science can solve all the problems in the world. A scientist Richard Feynman argues that science cannot solve social problems because of the complexity of beliefs and morals. However science and reasoning can manipulate and change ideas within society. For example, the technology of “communication is a strong force also, but for either good or bad” (Feynman, 130). Technology allows us to communicate in a more efficient manner by exposing large crowds in a short period of time. In many inventions like the radio and television, people are only “interested in the use of the idea, not the idea itself” (Feynman, 129). If the technology is misused, they’re maybe a bad outcome that can adjust peoples’ values.

Feynman also believes that the value of science does not match the value of religion and morals. “Our poets do not right about it; out artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing…unsung by singers…not a song or a poem, but an evening lecture about it.” (Feynman, 129). In the world of science there are only right and wrong answers whereas morals and religions could be expressed and interpreted into anyway with no absolute answer.

I enjoy this reading because it makes us realize that we take science and technology for granted. I believe that a person of today’s societies relies on science heavily and religions begin to fade away from people’s lives.

Vocabulary

Prodigiously

Source:

·      Never at rest…tortured by energy…wasted prodigiously by the sun…poured into space.

Definition:

·      1. Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree

     2. Unnatural or abnormal

Synonyms:

·      Enormous, immense, huge, stupendous, astounding

Antonyms:

·      Tiny, ordinary

Part of speech

·      Adjective

Stems:

·      Prodigy, ous

Origin:

·      Late 15^th centaury, latin

Example:

·      The car consumed a prodigious amount of fuel.

Intricate

Source:

·      Growing in size and complexity…living things, masses of atoms, DNA, protein…dancing a pattern ever more intricate.

Definition:

·      Direct, simple

Synonyms:

·      Knotty, tangled, labyrinthine

Antonyms:

·      Tiny, ordinary

Part of speech

·      Adjective

Stems:

·      In, tric, ate

Origin:

·      Late middle english, latin

Example:

·      An intricate network of wireless connections.

Accumulation

Source:

·      A an example, the great accumlation of understanding as to how the physical world behaves only convinces one that his behavior seems to have a kind of meaninglessness.

Definition:

·      The acquisition or gradual gathering of something

Synonyms:

·      Addition, collecting

Antonyms:

·      Dispersion, scattering

Part of speech

·      Noun

Stems:

·      Accumulate, ion

Origin:

·      1480-1490

Example:

·      The accumulation of money.

Questions

In our daily lives do we take science for granted?

Does science have a role in religion?

Is life trial and error, just like how Feynman described that in scientist experiences with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty?

Oryx and Crake 1

Security

Jimmy lived in a world dominated by multinational corporations, which kept their employees' families in privileged compounds and were separated from the outside world. Behind the walls of the compounds, people called those cities pleeblands. In People in the compounds does not “go to the cities unless they had to, and then never alone” (Atwood, 27). The security outside in the pleeblands were terrible, “there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change – the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies” (Atwood, 27), whereas life in the compounds were safe, foolproof, and controlled. Jimmy’s dad even compared the compounds as a castle and the people who live there where kings and dukes.

Security may appear to be protecting the citizens in the compound from outside terrorist, but in reality it was controlling and censoring certain ideas in their lives. CorpsSeCorps was the compound security that monitors the day-to-day life of all the citizens. When Jimmy’s mom escaped from the compound, it was their job to stop and execute her.

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This is a picture of a bionic eye. It demonstrates how the government’s security knows exactly what you’re doing. And it goes through everything including mail, entertainment, and etc before showing it to their audience. This way it allows the government to control the people (the way they think, behave, and etc).

Dystopian Notes

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2566804/Dystopian_Notes

Jane Eyre: Blog Response Ch:28-38 Question 2

2.     Compare and contrast St. John to Rochester.  Who is the better choice for a husband for Jane?  Why? 

Rochester and St. John has very different personalities. Rochester is a passionate and lustful man, whereas St. John is a more adventurous kind of man. Rochester can offer Jane love and support. However, in many ways Rochester is weaker than Jane in many ways, and their moral and beliefs do not always line up. St. John on the other hand is full of knowledge and strength. In the marriage of St. John and Jane, St. John does not treat Jane like an average housewife but instead invites her to India for a missionary. Jane loves the qualities of St. John however the relationship is bonded by the common interest of being “a free human being with an independent will." (Bronte,----), and not love. Relationship with Rochester is for Jane to feel the love and care that she lacks when she was younger. I believe that St. John is the better choice. Despite the lack of love Jane has experienced, Jane has grown into strong and independent women, and nothing can change her personality. St. John likes this quality and is willing to take her to experience a different culture and discover new things. Although he cannot over the same love as Rochester, but I believe that over time Jane cannot stand Rochester any longer because of his lack of knowledge and his social class forces Jane to be a proper lady and do things that she doesn’t like to do.

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I chose this photo to symbolize what would be the most ideal true love for Jane. Jane wants to be loved, yet someone who is on the same page as her regarding beliefs and values.

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