Kaitlyn Fitzgerald LMST 345 Fall 2020

 1.  Write at least 200 words It is ten years from now, the holiday season of 2030. You are thinking about a present you might be getting for the holidays. What is it? Talk about how you did your holiday shopping, What is your job and how are you doing it? What is your living situation and what are the major issues of the day? Please make these questions relevant to any appropriate holidays you celebrate.   -It's a little hard to see the future right now when this semester has really blown up in my face. I'm absolutely positive that by 2030 I will be in the game industry but what I am uncertain of is how I will get there. How much money will I have? Will I be happy with my situation? Will I even be in a relationship? With my track record and habit of choosing toxic significant others and friends, who honestly really knows. I could write right about the idealistic version I would like to experience, but I've always found that futuristic literature is more interesting when it

This book was a bit of a mixed bag for me.  I’m going to go ahead and get the “minus” side out of the way, because I can sum that up quickly, and then move on to discuss a few of this work’s many “plusses.”  On the downside, the pacing seemed to be uneven at times, and were a number of plot holes.  Some of the events that happened in the book just seemed very unbelievable to me, even in a fictional universe.  Near the beginning of the book, the main character was mistreated by otherwise-caring characters as part of a device to drive the story forward.  I thought that it would have been far more believable if the plot had been advanced another way, but I won’t get into that here.  Later in the book, an entire planet is destroyed, and the culprit’s reasoning behind that genocide seemed flimsy to me.  Throughout the novel, the pace was sometimes slowed due to conflicts that arose because the characters simply, and inexplicably, weren’t honest with each other.  The book ends with a major m

The Golem and the Jinni” features a relationship that develops between characters from two distinctly different cultures.  But this definitely isn’t your typical romantic comedy about love interests hailing from two different cultures.  As the title of the book suggests, the protagonists are supernatural.  Not only are they supernatural, but they are supernatural beings that arose from two completely different sets of folk mythology.  The golem Chala is based on Jewish mythology, and Ahmad the jinni hails from Arab folklore.  When I think of fantasies based on myths, what comes to mind is a story in which one particular set of traditions is in play, with all characters (mortal and supernatural alike) being part of the same world, subject to the same rules and cultural norms.  But in Wecker’s world, it is possible for supernatural creatures that arose from two completely different sets of traditions to co-exist and to even interact with each other.  In this world, we don’t have to choos

  1. What is your reaction to the text you just read?     I was confused the whole time. I could understand that there were two different races and one was being used as incubators but I couldn't tell what the other race was and all the names got super confusing. The story sporadically went from scene to scene and it was hard for me to keep up with it. Also, the structure of the narrative didn't really help at all, it left me behind just as much as the dialogue did. The main character had an odd connection with T'Gatoi, which was the alien who lives with them. The boy is mated to her, which I felt was a little odd because she is like three times his mother's age. I decided to read an explanation after I had finished the short story and I understood it more. I definitely like the concept but I think that the narrative could have been written so much better. 2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss what elements of the story with which you were able to con

I really enjoyed this novel and I was surprised to see how ahead of its time it is. For a novel written in the '60s, it's incredibly progressive with representing people and cultures outside of the standard societal norm. The protagonist is a strong, spunky, female, which was very rare for the  60s, and the way sexuality and physical attribute difference between the two different people were so drastically different from the views of the time. Even Rydra's crew strayed from the norm, being varied ethnically and culturally, I think this added so much to the story. I loved the openness of this book. For the majority, it was super clear and it was obvious the goals of the characters from the start, which allowed me to focus more on the world-building and the overall structure of the science behind it.   The openness about appearance really pushed the idea of self-image and what one can do. I feel like most older generations are like the Customs people, put off by outlandish ap

 A feminist novel published in 1975 that really got into not only the feminist movement but also touched on the environmental movement in the 1970s. I really liked how much this book challenged gender roles and sexist mindsets of the earlier 70s,  it got me really fired up. Typically, I don't usually like science fiction but The Female Man was very good. There are four main female characters who live in four different dimensions, all at different stages in time. This book was meant to highlight the fact that gender roles are outdated. The book is about trying to build a better society where gender roles don't prohibit someone from living their best lives. There is a certain importance to solve social issues on time. The 40-year war in Jael's world isn't much of an exaggeration, if anything an understatement because women are still fighting for equality, and the suffragette movement started in the early 1900s. Joanna takes Janet and Jeannie to a party to show them how me