In Feed, the book I'm reading, the character and his friend Violet are realizing how skewed their world is. The perspective that is missing is that of their friends, who are going on with life normally. While Titus and Violet are wondering what's really going on in the world, their friends are going on with life but having to watch Titus and Violet do all this.
I think that Link and the others are confused by what's going on but also they just see it as some crazy obsession. It's weird to think that Titus and Violet are discovering terrible things but there's nothing about what their friends think of it. They are portrayed in the book as not very intelligent, so maybe they just don't think anything of it at all. But I think there might be something there that the author left out on purpose.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
How the protagonist is dealing with the conflict in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, the protagonist (Chief Bromden) has started to let on that he is not deaf and dumb. One of the characters; Mcmurphy, is rebelling against the "Big Nurse" and when he offered the chief a piece of chewing gum one night, the chief said "Thanks". The reason this is special is because chief Bromden doesn't talk. Ever. The whole ward thinks that he can't hear or speak, but now he has told his life story to Mcmurphy.
I think that Chief Brombden trusts Mcmurphy, and that is why he is talking. He believes that Mcmurphy will understand how he feels, and what he has been through, which Mcmurphy does.Chief Brombden is scared to tell anyone else that he can hear though, because he has been to secret meetings where things he shouldn't know were discussed. I think that some of the things Chief says happened at the meetings, like doing weird experiments on a patient, are another part of his imagination. On the other hand, the weird moments Chief has where the world slows down are becoming less frequent. I think that maybe Mcmurphy is exciting Chief and he is starting to come out of his wierd shell.
I really like how this book is coming along and I really want to keep reading to see what will come of Mcmurphy's invasion.
I think that Chief Brombden trusts Mcmurphy, and that is why he is talking. He believes that Mcmurphy will understand how he feels, and what he has been through, which Mcmurphy does.Chief Brombden is scared to tell anyone else that he can hear though, because he has been to secret meetings where things he shouldn't know were discussed. I think that some of the things Chief says happened at the meetings, like doing weird experiments on a patient, are another part of his imagination. On the other hand, the weird moments Chief has where the world slows down are becoming less frequent. I think that maybe Mcmurphy is exciting Chief and he is starting to come out of his wierd shell.
I really like how this book is coming along and I really want to keep reading to see what will come of Mcmurphy's invasion.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Blog Post #3: Protagonist review
The book I'm reading is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.The book takes place in a mental ward at a hospital, and most of the characters are insane.This makes it really hard to understand what's going on in the story, because you don't know whether or not to trust what the main character says is going on. For example, he said that sometimes the "big nurse" (the antagonist) turns off the clock and time freezes for days at a time. This makes me think that maybe he has some sort of thing where his mind spaces out and he feels time passing really slowly.
Besides the fact that he is insane, I think the main character is really smart. The other patients call him deaf and dumb because he never speaks or responds to what someone says. I think that the reason he never talks is because he is such a good observer. It is a really cool POV in the book because he is so rarely involved in what's going on that you forget that it's a first person style book instead of third person. He just watches.
The most recent thing I was reading is when the main character skips taking his bedtime pill that the staff gives them. He thinks this is something to make the patients sleep and not be woken by anything. While he is awake in bed the room is lowered down into a room full of lifeless workers in some strange facility. I'm sure that this is another one of his fantasies, but maybe it is going to become a symbol or metaphor later on.
I really like this book so far and the narrorators observance is a really intruiging way of getting the story through.
Besides the fact that he is insane, I think the main character is really smart. The other patients call him deaf and dumb because he never speaks or responds to what someone says. I think that the reason he never talks is because he is such a good observer. It is a really cool POV in the book because he is so rarely involved in what's going on that you forget that it's a first person style book instead of third person. He just watches.
The most recent thing I was reading is when the main character skips taking his bedtime pill that the staff gives them. He thinks this is something to make the patients sleep and not be woken by anything. While he is awake in bed the room is lowered down into a room full of lifeless workers in some strange facility. I'm sure that this is another one of his fantasies, but maybe it is going to become a symbol or metaphor later on.
I really like this book so far and the narrorators observance is a really intruiging way of getting the story through.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Peak- end of book reaction
Peak, by Roland Smith, is a realistic (sort of ) fiction book about a kid who's parents are both experienced climbers, and his dad left him as a child to run expeditions on mountains like Everest. The book starts off with Peak, the main character, climbing skyscrapers in New York because he wants to climb and the buildings are the tallest things around. On this one particular night when he is climbing the Wolworth building, he is caught by the police. After hearing about his climbs, a boy with no climbing experience tries to climb a building to be "cool" like Peak and falls to his death. Peak is arrested and put on trial just for climbing the building, but people are even more mad at him because of the other boy's death.
The first twist in the plot comes when Peak's father, who has been out of Peaks life longer than he can remember, shows up to the trial. He offers to take Peak out of the country to keep the media away. He says that Peak is going to be going to an international school in Nepal, but he has other plans. When they arrive in Kathmandu, a city in Nepal, Josh (Peaks dad) tells Peak that the real plan is for Peak to climb mount Everest. If he does, he will be the youngest person ever to summit the mountain.
Throughout Peak's training on the mountain, he starts to have mixed feelings about his dad. He thinks that his dad wants to have Peak break the record just to get publicity for his company. Also, he thinks about how his dad was never his father, he was never there throughout Peak's life, and Peak resents that.
I think that Peak has good reason to be mad at his dad, but also in a way I think that Josh is sort of trying to make it up to Peak, he just doesn't know how to because he feels ashamed that he was never a good father.
The first twist in the plot comes when Peak's father, who has been out of Peaks life longer than he can remember, shows up to the trial. He offers to take Peak out of the country to keep the media away. He says that Peak is going to be going to an international school in Nepal, but he has other plans. When they arrive in Kathmandu, a city in Nepal, Josh (Peaks dad) tells Peak that the real plan is for Peak to climb mount Everest. If he does, he will be the youngest person ever to summit the mountain.
Throughout Peak's training on the mountain, he starts to have mixed feelings about his dad. He thinks that his dad wants to have Peak break the record just to get publicity for his company. Also, he thinks about how his dad was never his father, he was never there throughout Peak's life, and Peak resents that.
I think that Peak has good reason to be mad at his dad, but also in a way I think that Josh is sort of trying to make it up to Peak, he just doesn't know how to because he feels ashamed that he was never a good father.
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