Thursday, April 13, 2017

Week 13: Oryx and Crake

For this weeks reading genre of Literary Speculation I chose to start Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I found myself comparing this book a lot to The Giver by Lois Lowry mainly in the way the memory flashbacks were being treated. Snowman reminded me of the Giver, someone who hold all the memories and knowledge and bears the weight of them in order to keep everyone else safe. He struggles with maintaining his humanity something that seems to have been abandoned in his surrounding society. This story also covers the subject of genetic modification seeing as both Snowman's parents were responsible for creating a subspecies of pigs from which they harvested organs from since everyone was falling ill. I find that this portion of the plot is similar to the video game Presentable Liberty where the survival of humans lays in those who have healthy organs and those who have enough money to buy them from healthy humans. Mass illnesses like these aren't far from reality seeing as we've already gone though the Black Plague. For all we know we aren't far from a future where this could happen again, overpopulation and a decrease of living space due to rising water levels can prove to be a formidable opponent in the upcoming decade. Though I didn't get too far in this book it's ne I'd like to finish seeing as other students in the class found it an interesting red.

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