Okay, so first of all I would like to say that out of the few books we have read so far for AP. Literature this is my favorite. I really like how the chapters are so short so it keeps me interested and not bored wanting the chapter to be over.
Anyway, as far the book presenting postmodern themes, from what I’ve read in chapters 1-7 I’m not really seeing much until after these chapters. One of the first things I noticed as I was reading chapters 1-7 was the little comment Newt Hoenikker made in chapter 7. “There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. I am proof of that” (pg 18). This little comment already shows that this book is not like the previous one we read at all. It shows that the people in this novel actually have emotion and their emotions do affect them. They are nothing like the people of Brave New World.
However, out of the characters I’ve read about so far, not all of them show this kind of emotion. So far, it seems like Felix Hoenikker is the one showing the most postmodern behaviors. He is portrayed as someone who doesn’t really interact much with others or so much interest in many things except his work. Also, even though Felix had kids, it was apparent that he didn’t really spend much time with them or even care about what they were doing most of the time. “He all of a sudden came out of his study and did something he’d never done before. He tried to play with me. Not only had le never played with me before; he had hardly ever even spoken to me” (pg 11-12). “Father stuck his head out the window, and he looked at Angela and me rolling on the ground, bawling, and Frank standing over us, laughing. The old man pulled his head indoors again, and never even asked later what all the fuss was about. People wasn’t his specialty” (pg 17). How is it a possible for a father to not even interact with their kids or even care about their kids safety? For Felix, it seems like to him the only thing that mattered was new knowledge and how to obtain it. He is the perfect depiction of postmodernism so far in the novel.
So I guess I’m about done now. I don’t really have much else to say about chapter 1-7 and since this blog is a Cat Cradle’s Chapters 1-7 Response, I’m all out of blogging ideas unless we talk about chapters 1-27. =]
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I think I said like thee same things!! HAHAAA. But yeahh...like thus far, this book hasn't shown as much postmodernism as much as the others did all of a sudden. Like it feels as if its the 1940s when the bomb just hit, and people are having conversations like they would today. It feels a lot more today and modern I guess you would call it. And Felix-- this man is just the kind of person you want to slap. He shows complete moral blindness- its just absolutely ridiculous. It is just complete moral destruction. I guess only people like him can create this mass-destructing-weapons. But yeahhh...I agree, nicely done. Peaceee outtt :) hahaa
ReplyDeleteDANG IT!! That was only 114 words!! I NEED to say more..
ReplyDeleteBut..now that i've read more, I've realized a lot more postmodern things that were in the first few chapters. They were exposed a lot easier. Just the little things- we may not even think to be postmodern, have hints of it hiding, that we just have to seek.
But seriously, this is my favorite book this far. LOVEEE it. Hahaa; well hope that was a little more, and better, and somewhat decent. But yeahh..