The Star
The appeal of stories about objects in space threatening the earth is because in earlier stings of objects in pace were dangerous. In my opinion they believe if they see another object in space that people should be aware of it. Also they should know what to do when they see another. For example whenever the star got closer something bad would happen. some people looked at it like "oh whats the use to me" and others looked at it kind of worrisome. for example one of the schoolboys in the book says "stop a planet in its flight rob it of its centrifugal force, what then? centripetal has it, and down it falls into the sun! and this! do we come in the way?" If i was there i would also be worrisome because its a big star causing all these bad things the closer it gets.
Speech Sounds
This story was actually different from the star because in this short story the main character was rye and it kept talking about this disease it had. I don't know whether it went over my head or something but i didn't really understand what the disease was. When the story said how Rye forgot how to read and speak led me to think why? Was it that since her family died did she stop talking to people in general and just forgot how to talk? Or did talking make her go back down memory lane? It kind of saddened me when the one man she met and the one man she wanted to come home with her died in such a instance. Also like Rye said it really had me was it jealousy that led the man to kill the childrens mother? It makes you think how could jealousy drive a person to kill another person?
I was asking the same questions about "Speech Sounds". How can this disease detriment someone's ability to talk, read, or write? I wanted to know more about the science of it all and less fiction. But I'm conflicted, because I also believe that's part of the appeal, is the vague improbability of it. Something unheard of, happening in this world. And everyone or everything we know to stop it, become things we knew.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that the virus is mysterious, but I think it's realistic that people wouldn't necessarily always be thinking about how it works. Rye is living it, so why would she feel the need to explain it?
ReplyDeleteSpeech sounds was based off the stroke effect, what a stroke does to our minds, sometimes it will kill us, sometimes it will take away our speech other times it will paralyze us, but all in all its on the basis of the brain and how it will adapt to its surroundings to live
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