The End of Science Fiction
Science fiction is no longer science fiction because there are characteristics of science fiction seen in our actual lives. It is no long "fiction" since it is becoming real
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- Nov 2017
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This is not fantasy, this is our life. We are the characters
Is she trying to say that our actual lives are relatable to the genre of science fiction with all the advancements and inventions being made?
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firefighting a gang of Russian commandoes as they parachuted into view. Alongside him a scurrying shape ran; sometimes a dog, sometimes a droid, sometimes a huddle of rats. Her voice rose out of it. “Can I see?”
The girl is not able to see what Bill Peek sees, but it kind of seems like he is in two places at one time
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Felixstowe, England. A Norman village; later, briefly, a resort, made popular by the German royal family; much fishing, once upon a time. A hundred years earlier, almost to the very month, a quaint flood had killed only forty-eight people. Over the years, the place had been serially flooded, mostly abandoned. Now the sad little town had retreated three miles inland and up a hill. Pop.: 850
The boy has a god like view of the world and can see everything in the past and the present through some type of machine. This shows third person omniscient point of view.
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and the boy himself
why is he still being referred to as "the boy" if the narrator just introduced him as Bill Peek?
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It was what his mother would have done, a kindly woman with a great mass of waist-length flame-colored hair, famed for her patience with locals. But his mother was long dead, he had never known her
Obviously the boy has some ability of knowing/kind of knowledge of people without ever knowing them since it says he never knew his mother but was able to describe her well, just like the two strangers he meets.
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light encircling the boy’s head
The light encircling the boys head enables him to see things that others can not see
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- Oct 2017
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Sometimes there are complications
Maybe complications could be the white male or female fighting with the internal Indian because they are conflicted with what they should really represent in society
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If the interior Indian is male then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man. If the interior Indian is female, then she must be a healer, especially if she is inside a white woman.
If a white male or a white female has characteristics of a warrior or a healer then that relates them to an Indian, but all white people carry and Indian inside them so does this mean that no white male or female can be a warrior or a healer on their own?
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Indian men are horses, smelling wild and gamey
The Indian man always has to be portrayed as being wild. This relates to Zits and his father who are seen as uncontrollable wild people.
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Indian men, of course, are storms. They should destroy the lives of any white women who choose to love them
Another reference to storms: the Indian's secrets destroy the lives around them
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Yet Indian secrets can be disclosed suddenly, like a storm
Another reference to nature: when the Indian secrets are uncovered it is like a storm meaning they have a lot to hide but I'm still not sure what the secrets can be
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The hero must be a half-breed, half white and half Indian, preferably from a horse culture. He should often weep alone. That is mandatory.
This relates to the novel in the fact that Zits is told to "not be overwhelmed by the tribe" when he tells Justice he gets lonely so maybe Zits is the hero in some way or maybe "the hero" is just referring to the main character
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- Sep 2017
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of Agony and of Death !
The black cat is a symbol of agony and death and it follows the narrator around during the entire story
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and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves, by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
why is mankind more inclined to suffer than to try and change the laws/systems? is it too difficult to try and change?
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made very full behind and very short in the waist — and indeed very short in other respects, not reaching below the middle of her leg.
This could also possibly be symbolizing the role of women during this time period because all the men are described to have very long and big clothes, and this description of the women's clothes is the only one that includes the word "short".
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Like them, he has a watch, but he carries his watch in his pocket. To say the truth, he has something of more importance than a watch to attend to — and what that is, I shall presently explain.
I found this interesting because even though the father has a watch like the rest of the family, he watches the large clock in the center of the town which is more important. It's kind of like the father is taking on "the role" of the household just like in history most households were patriarchal.
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His coat-tail is very far longer — his pipe, his shoe-buckles, his eyes, and his stomach, very far bigger — than those of any other old gentleman in the village; and as to his chin, it is not only double, but triple.
Throughout the entire story, the narrator describes the characters as being fat, round, with double chins, etc and when the narrator is describing the belfry it is evident that the belfry is the most important person in the town because he is described as even fatter, with a triple chin and even a larger pipe than everyone.
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the carvers of Vondervotteimittiss have never been able to carve more than two objects — a time-piece and a cabbage. But these they do exceedingly well, and intersperse them, with singular ingenuity, wherever they find room for the chisel.
This is the first sentence where I noticed the recurring idea about the time and the cabbage. The way I understand the time motif is that it is a way of keeping order in the town, but I don't understand the importance of the cabbage motif.
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