week 6 respond

The middle-earth is a really fun topic to talk about. I first watched the movie series about the Lord of the Ring and then the movie series of The Hobbit. The book The Annotated Hobbit is a nice extra knowledge for the story. The main character is hobbit which is really peaceful race. Then, our main character has a really peaceful and happy childhood. Every one in the town is nice to them and the whole town looks a really nice place. Then our main character is different than any others in the down because he has a dream for adventure. Then the wizard notices the potential that he has for a successful mission and chose him to be the one. In the book, the wizard is more like the represent of the goddess since they gain power from the goddess and promoted by them too (Gandalf was killed and then came back as a white wizard). The hobbit is also not liked respected for some people during the adventure because they believe hobbits can not fight. This creates the first challenge for the main character. Then, the character proves his place in the team and respect by doing something others can not. The character will also learn something form the event and grow up. Then, there are more and more challenge during the way like the beasts, the ring and the dragon. Then at the end, the character goes back his old town and enjoy his life. The book really follows the hero journey theory.

Week 12 in class

It took me a little time at first to realize what is the set up of the fiction. Then the whole story become really interesting. The story introduce people a new way of looking at giving birth. People see their own way of birth in good, but what if there is another way of giving birth? The aliens are introduced as family and so peoples are actually bearing life for their own family. However, I still feel uncomfortable same as the "Terrans" in the story. There might be because of the human natures or because the way that described in story is similar to some warms. The alien put the eggs inside human and take it out while is time. This make me think nothing but a "more human acceptable"parasitism. There are many elements in the book are purposely inverted to make people feel uncomfortable or out of place: Instead of only female bears child, male could bears children too; The young kid could also become the "father" of warms; One family have to sacrifice one people to protect the others; The brainwash and high pressure policy since the "preserve" is build based on inequality of races (Alien are much stronger than Human). 

Since I am game major. I think this story could be a perfect background set up for a game. The "operation" scene could be remarkable and the unique stuff is game can make player involve into the story. If it is me, I would definitely make the story longer and make a full background set up. The scene should happen in future with higher technology and a more twisted society. People should see more "okay" to the "N'Talic" stuff since people will see the sickness of the story by themselves. 

Week 5 respond

   It is kind of boring for me to read Aunt Maria at first because the book is a bit slow at the beginning part. The book slowly talks the story about MIg and his brother go to visit their aunt homes with his mom since their father drive off. The book isn’t so exciting but become interesting while MIg finally realize aunt Maria is not a good person she seems like to be. The story keeps letting the tension grow between the kids and Maria. It is so clear there is will be some real conflict between Maria and the kids. This is the time when the book get interesting.

  About the witch, I am not so surprised the total set is pretty stereotype. The book is marked as a kids book and then a more traditional and popular witch character will receive more favor. The main character goes in to some place that is new and weird to her. Then meet a person who is evil but pretend to be a nice to everyone at first. The main character first got tricked and then realize the truth of the evil. After some adventure and then defeat the evil with the secret or power gained during the adventure. An example of this could be Hansel and Gretel, a German fairy tale.

Week 4 Respond

The book I read this week is the Monster Island. I think generally talking about the story, it is not weird at all. The story is about finding medicine in a zombie world and our protagonist is fighting for his daughter’s safe. It is pretty heroic and the zombie became a common story after the success of the Walking dead. However, the book do give people a weird feeling when reading it. I think it is because the whole setting of the book is in a kind of weird way. First, the place that our protagonist come from is Somalia. All the develop country is fallen. Our main character is trying to fight for his daughter’s place in Somalia. It is kind of ironic for me to compare to that people come from the less developed country are trying to fight for a place in developed countries now. Second, the elite soldiers that sent to the New York are groups of girl soldiers. They are trained to follow orders and not afraid to die. However, this also causes a lot problem during the journey in New York city. The immature and education cause those girls not really rational at sometimes that we and the protagonist can’t really understand. An example could be in chapter 15 and they refuse to leave but fighting against zombies. The setting of the whole book could be seen as a reverse for a organic American hero novel setting. The combination of American style story and a totally not fit background create the weird feeling.