Monday, November 1, 2010

Oryx and Crake Question 2

1. Oryx and Crake includes many details that seem futuristic, but are in fact already apparent in our world. What parallels were you able to draw between the items in the world of the novel and those in your own?


Snowman is one of the last human survivors in a post apocalyptic world, living alone in a tree but not far from others. He spends most of his time reflecting on his life before the apocalypse, when he was called by a different name, the name Jimmy. He examined the values of life, ideals and morales versus reality and science. Ever so often, the "Children of Crake", genetically modified human beings that are seemingly perfect, seeks the Snowman for knowledge of the past they had never known (the pre apocalyptic world). These beautiful and innocent children know nothing of the world they live in and how evil it truly is, it is as if there are flitters put in their eyes so that they could only see the good. They are like new borns, innocent, pure, knowing nothing about the world they have been brought into but curious none-the-less, or what their future will be like, or even if they will have a future at all.



http://blog.bioethics.net/baby

This picture shows a new born baby with its eyes filled with curiosity, it does not know anything of this world, remaining innocent and pure.

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