Kaitlyn Fitzgerald LMST 345 Fall 2020

   Classes:  Mon Sep 7 (1 point) Mon Sep 14 (1 point) Mon Sep 21 (1 point) Mon Sep 28 (1 point) Mon Oct 5 (1 point) Mon Oct 12 (1 point) Mon Oct 19 (1 point) Mon Oct 26 (1 point) Mon Nov 2 (1 point) Mon Nov 9 (1 point) Mon Nov 16  (1 point) Mon Nov 23 (1 point) Mon Nov 30 (1 point) Mon Dec 7    (1 point) Mon Dec 14   (1 point) Books and  Movies: Frankenstein (6 points) The Haunting  of  Hill House  (5 points) Vampire Academy (5 points) Byzantium (1 point) The Hole (5 points) Annihilation (6 points) Annihilation Movie  (1 point) Red Lands Vol. 1-5 (5 points)  Lord of the Rings (6 points)  Sea kings (5 points) A wrinkle in time (5 points) Female Man (5 points) Bable 17 (5 points) Blood Child (5 points) The Golem (5 points) Ascension (5 points) Final Future (4 points) 

 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