Author Archives: catho89
House of the Scorpion
While The House of the Scorpion is not quite as hardcore as the scifi we’ve been thrust into this semester, the novel does deal with some of the common themes we have been discussing this semester. What first came to mind was agency; who has it, and who doesn’t. The most obvious characters that deal […] Continue reading
Blindsight, from a new POV
“Looks good,” I said. “I’m going in.” It’s my job to go first. It’s my job to lead the troops when no one else will. Or when no one else can. I followed the grunts down the corridors of Rorschach for the first time. The walls shined with a creeping blackness I could not put […] Continue reading
Blindsight
I am finding it very difficult to pick a single sentence, being as there are so many good ones to choose from. I haven’t even finished the novel yet; I can’t imagine what the next 80 pages contains. But, going through, I have settled on this: “Human nature was becoming an assembly-line edit, Humanity itself […] Continue reading
Brooding Lilith
Since I have to write this before I go to work today and there hasn’t been a topic posted yet, I am choosing to write a response letter from Akin to Lilith, after he has been captured. Dear Lilith, I miss you very much. I have been captured for over a month, and I would […] Continue reading
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
What makes us human? I believe our humanity is in our strengths, and the virtues of our character. But it is also in our weaknesses. But what if we no longer have the same weaknesses? What if what once killed us, no longer effects us. We’re still humans, just different. Right? I have been thinking […] Continue reading
We3, Underneath the Armor
Firstly, wow. I have never struggled so much to read a graphic novel before. Turning each page pained me more and more as I grew emotionally attached to the animals. I gave my dog many treats after finishing the story. He was pleased. Anyway… One of the first moments that struck me was the first […] Continue reading
Neuromancer, not to be confused with Necromancer
Talk about plunging feet first into a new world. From the very beginning, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer forces us to take cognitive leaps and bounds with our understanding. By giving us no option but to blindly trust his words (especially the ones we don’t understand), we are submerged deep into Gibson’s cyber world. As I […] Continue reading
It’s the end of the world as we know it
Whoisbenconner‘s idea about the breaking of social barriers brought me to the scene when Jim and Julia meet for the first time, and made me consider their contrasting point’s of view of one another. “He heard a sharp cry, and saw a living form leaning wildly out an upper window. He gasped. The human voice […] Continue reading
Comment on My Second Brog by catho89
Even with all of the murders in the second half of the novel, I still can’t help feeling more compassion for the monster than for Frankenstein. Perhaps Shelley is just manipulating me, but I think we are not supposed to be able to make a decision about the monster’s nature by the end because she has made you feel for him. By the end of the novel, who did you feel for more? Continue reading
Feminism, Frankenstein, Foccacia
With bread in the oven, I have started thinking about Frankenstein and his own, unnatural bun in the oven. I have been considering the role of the female and how it pertains to nature in the novel, and how Frankenstein himself takes away a woman’s natural power to give life. As Frankenstein “pursues nature to […] Continue reading