author: margret atwood
completion date: 29/06/10
method: borrowed (andrew)
the apocalypse seems to be a pretty common thread for authors. what i like about them is that they all follow similar threads (war, famine or infection... i feel like we're missing one here) but each one is unique. also there is the automatic contrast implied: this is how the world was this is how the world is now this is how humanity survives. this was the hand we were dealt this time and this is how we played it.
i started this book totally blind ( which i don't really enjoy doing on the regular). there was no summary on the back or within the first few pages. all i knew was that it is a post apocalyptic novel and margret atwood wrote it. that was it. all i knew. mum also told me that you never know what happens until the end.
i am really happy that writers like atwood exist. she so often shows such strength in her novels and i love her for it. this quickly could become one of my favourite post apocalyptic novels because of the crakers. all i can say is: way to go. she really addresses what happens when we go to far. when we make something that looks human and sounds human but has no humanity. the crakers are blank shells. they aren't even animalistic. i would argue that even animals show jealousy and sexual preference. the crakers feel like an experiment gone wrong. everything about them is false. except for the purring. i can't remember if it was jocelyn howard or meg or kate atkinson that told me about a book where a scientist created a perfect being and it could purr because purring is one of the most soothing sounds and has healing tendencies. if any of you remember please tell me. it reminded me of when you have a stomach ache and your cat comes and purrs right beside you.
crake terrified me. he had no limitation. no top, no regard for humanity. jimmy's arguments about art and society seem to fall flat against crake's argument for perfection. but it seems that crake was a product of his society. the scientist were pushing the boundaries which meant that crake could justify his actions. he wasn't doing anything worse then his predecessors, he was just doing more.
atwood just created such a unique apocalyptica, its hard to see what the book that apparently i'm being set up to read will show me.
xo-ellebee
We read The Handmaid's tale in english this year, and everything in the book is supposed to have happened or is happening now.
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoyed it so much that I ended up keeping the copy I had to buy when I lost the original one I was given in class.
niiiice. you should read this one- i really loved it
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