Category Archives: Group 8
Human vs Human?
House of the Scorpion, like a number of the other books we have read, questions the nature of humanity and what it is to be human. The revulsion Matteo is given when the Big House staff realize he’s a clone, … Continue reading → Continue reading
House of the Scorpion
As I’m reading through this book, I can’t help but to make allusions to just about every social issue in the world. Animal rights, human cloning, organized crime, political corruption, stem cell therapy, slavery, etc… At the same time, the … Continue reading → Continue reading
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
Oversight Committee
The room was dark, the only source of light the soft glow of a row of computer monitors around the semi-circular table. A dozen men in dark suits sat around the table silently watching the displays. The haze washed images … Continue reading → 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 scene rewrite
“Focus Camera 3 just behind those benches” said Sarasti calmly, yet intensely focused. “What for? It’s just those kids pickin’ on that polly again.” Responded the camera operator. “Just do it.” Who is this boy? Just standing there, observing. The … Continue reading → Continue reading
All About the Observations
“I should have been able to tell. She should have been clear,” (p. 274). Ok so it’s two sentences but they’re little ones. I’m not entirely sure why this line stood out so heavily for me. I think it comes … Continue reading → Continue reading
Blindsight
“There was something like sympathy in the vampire’s voice, the practiced affectation of an accomplished mimic. There was something else, too, an all-but-imperceptible hunger, a subtle edge of temptation. I don’t think anyone heard it but me.” (113) This quote … Continue reading → 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
Diary of the Lost
??/??/???? We have the kid, Akin I think he’s called, and I have to say he creeps me out. It’s unnatural, the way he acts, the way he… talks. He’s not human, no matter how he may look now. This … Continue reading → Continue reading