Category Archives: Group 5
In the Belly of the Plants
What strikes me as truly alien are the plant rooms in Lilith’s Brood. I had trouble understanding what they are. Are they independently living organisms or are they part of another living creature? Do they think on their own? How will they play a more crucial role in the book? The section where Kahguyaht takes […]
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Freudian Oankalionomics
The most perplexing aspect of the story in Lilith’s Brood is the understanding/images formulated of the Oankali and their motives. The images portrayed by Octavia Butler are so, obviously, alien that the reader maintains an ever-shifting opinion upon the appearance … Continue reading → Continue reading
Genocide
“‘Do you understand what now what happened to us?’ ‘I’m aware of what happened. It’s…alien to me. Frighteningly alien’” (Butler 16). As I dove right into Lilith’s Brood, I thought about what it means to be “alien,” particularly what it … Continue reading →
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“Your ship is alive?”
In Dawn by Octavia Butler, I find the living ship to be the most alien aspect. In the new world in which Lilith is Awakened to we are slowly given pieces of information about the qualities of the ship from the Oankali, the first being that it’… Continue reading
Comment on The Weapon of the Future in “We3″ by Young
I totally agree with you. I also wrote about the controller as well(in response to another poster who brought it up), but I didn’t express my thoughts about desensitization quite as well as you did. The thought was swirling around somewhere in my head but I couldn’t articulate it very well. Great post. Continue reading
WE3
The complexity of the WE3 animals is based on their mental acuity and subjective humanity. Through their actions and decisions the reader gains a perspective that only Dr. Berry achieves within the novel; however, that in itself is subjective due to … Continue reading → Continue reading
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The specific page and column that I chose in the graphic novel We3 is found on pg. 93, specifically on the right column, top two pictures (can be viewed here). To me this is one of the most powerful images … Continue reading →
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Sympathizing with Dr. Trendle in WE3
I thought about the class discussion on the graphic novel WE3, about how the eyes are absent in the panels depicting most humans. Eyes certainly reveal emotions in the animal characters 1, 2, and 3. Often times in the book, Dr. Roseanne Berry’s eyes reveal her sympathy for the WE3 team and her anger […]
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The Weapon of the Future in “We3″
On page 24 of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, the reader is introduced to the “weapon of the future”. Right away when I saw this futuristic weapon I thought, this is it? What I see when I look at this technology is simply an… Continue reading
Pet preference
Page 29 contains very significant color symbolism. The difference between the red lights of the secret facility and the cool outdoor setting makes the facility seem womb-like. WE3 are being born from this place; they have been recreated and built. They leave the facility with different minds and bodies than when they first entered it. […] Continue reading