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“Cometancer”

            Jim led Julia to the roof of the tower while hypnagogic images burned through his mind. Symbols in the forms of once known figures and faces seized his brain’s attention. These images were forms of visual information to Jim. The images were secrets embedded in his the past. However, they were irrelevant to their future. […] Continue reading

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The Irrelevance of Technology and Time in Nancy Farmer’s ‘The House of the Scorpion’

          After reading the first fourteen chapters of Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion I noticed two elements in this text that make The House of the Scorpion unique to the other science fiction texts we have read this semester. The first unique element in the novel is that the technological advancements in the […] Continue reading

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Scene: The Death and Reanimation of Sarasti

          Angular patterns, akin to mortal wounds on the meat of the living, disjoin my analytically-centered psyche. The Synthesist merely watches, his benign stare is almost expressing emotive reaction to my chaotic state when I feel. I feel. I feel…a pointed cylinder, three centimeters in circumference and a half meter in length, divide my mind […] Continue reading

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“A sea of tortured faces, rotating in slow orbits around my vampire commander” (Watts 337).

      This sentence comes during Siri’s first contact with Sarasti since he was brutally attacked by the vampire. It is significant to the novel in that this is the reader’s first glimpse into the inner-workings of the vampire’s mind. Up until this point, Siri has merely alluded to the sadistic nature of Sarasti’s psyche with […] Continue reading

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“Akin…”

Dearest Akin,             I am writing you this letter as your mother and protector, but also as the link between the two identities in your being which both unite and alienate you from others. You are special Akin. You are the product of two races of distant origins combining, evolving, growing, and becoming something righteously […] Continue reading

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The Give and Take in Octavia Butler’s Dawn

            Octavia Butler’s Dawn is a novel that, on the surface seems to be commenting on humans’ instinctual drive towards corruption. For example, the group of people Lilith awakens from suspended animation, despite being unfamiliar with their surroundings, is determined to establish a hostile environment wherein its members must choose a faction to support in […] Continue reading

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Analysis of Page 72 of We3

          Page 72 of Morrison and Quietely’s graphic novel We3 portrays the moment when characters 1 and 2 kill the hunter and his dog for injuring 3. This sequence of events in We3 is significant on a few levels. On one hand, this scene illustrates the reasoning this team of animal assassins has developed throughout […] Continue reading

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Confronting the Confusion Embedded in Neuromancer

          After finishing chapters seven through twelve of Neuromancer, I feel that I have a firm understanding of the narrative. I understand Neuromancer’s plot structure as well as its characters’ relationships and conflicts with each other and themselves. However, it is the intricacies of the narrative that continually trouble me.           Throughout my reading of […] Continue reading

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Wading Through the Tides of Tone in W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Comet”

           After reading W.E.B. Du Bois’ short story “The Comet,” I was intrigued by the author’s employment of water as the element by which I could gauge emotion/tone at critical points in the narrative. Not only is “The Comet” included in a collection entitled Darkwater, but Du Bois begins “The Comet” by referencing his character Jim […] Continue reading

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Frankenstein- The Pain, Payback, and Pennance of An Evil Imp

          In Tuesday’s class we discussed the subject of whether Frankenstein’s creation (let us simply call him “the wretch”) should be held accountable for his violent actions considering the circumstances of his creation and Frankenstein’s immediate abandonment of “the wretch” thereafter. In other words: Do we (our class) feel sympathy for this creature after having […] Continue reading

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