For this week I choose to read Oryx
and Crake by Margaret Atwood. The story is about Jimmy or Snowman, the
protagonist of the story and his friend, Crake. The story has two main things.
First, the science experiment by Crake and second, the triangle love relationship
of Jimmy, Crake and Oryx. The story keeps leading me to think about our world
in the future. What the advancement of technology and science will do to our
world. It has both good and bad side, advantages and disadvantages but who
knows what will happen? Nowadays, there are companies that producing many types
of supplementary product to help people with their sickness or whatever they
need but no one knows the long term effect of those products. For example, we
will not know if the pills that we are taking when we are sick will mess our
body up in the future when we are old. So, may be, in the future, our world will
turn out to be what happened in the novel.
About writing in genre or use the
elements of genre for Oryx and Crake, I think it is not necessary distinction.
I think, to specific the genre of some novel that have many types in one is too
difficult and not necessary. The reader will be the one who decide the genre of
the book they read themselves because a novel can makes the readers have many
different feeling toward it so it is not important what genre of the book is,
the readers will be the judge.
I think Oryx and Crake is an
interesting story. I like the science experiment part of it but I think the
love story is kind of sad and it is bad to have affair with your friend’s lover
or anyone’s lover. The author made the triangle love story into another level,
tragedy. At the end, Jimmy was left alone and he has to survive in terrible
situation which I think is kind of suck but he may be deserve it after all.
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