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Space Opera

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Space Opera             For this week, I read Arthur C. Clarke’s The Star . It’s a story about a priest going on a space journey and discovering something that disproves and questions his faith completely. This story was written in 1959, so space travel was conceived, but the story describes us in the far future where we can travel lightyears and find old planets. Ironic, how you’d think back then we would be able to do that now in 2019.             The real irony of this story, is that the life on the planet they found ended then causing a supernova. This supernova was what the priest discovered to be the star of David when Jesus was born, thus starting a whole life of religious beliefs. The death of a human-like planet was the reason for so much happiness on Earth, and finally putting 2 and 2 together would be hard to handle, especially for a follower ...
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Assessment

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1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? Bloodchild written by Octavia Butler, Gan is only a child so he understands and goes with what he's suppose to do in his alien planet. As a reader, we don't know the morals exactly. Is there a human instinct to be sympathetic to other human like Gan was? Or is this him learning that it takes effort and hardships and death to survive on this alien planet. I was able to put myself in a perspective as a Terran and have an open mind but it still was a hard read for me personally, less about the graphics and more about understanding. It's understandable that the reaction Gan gave was so severe, but I guess it would be like a girl learning about puberty for the first time or learning about how human births work. It's not so beautiful as people make it to be 2. What connections did you make with this story? Discuss the elements of the work with which you are able to connect? Gan is visibly grossed out by what he saw and...
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J-Horror and Vengeful Spirits

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J-Horror and Vengeful Spirits After finishing Haruki Murakami's  A Wild Sheep Chas e, it makes me realize how different our western horror culture is. I feel like because we’re so exposed to western horror stereotypes of slashers, monsters, etc, we always assume that the spirit is evil. There just always seems to be bad blood with ghosts and humans. I think this is due to our lack of culture with the passed compared to Asian culture. Western culture is all about shock value. They don’t normally leave you feeling dread or a huge disturbance. Most of the time it’s high descriptions of how someone is tortured, or how detailed the killer looks. J-horror contrasts this by making contemplate the story and the reality all together. In the story of Yuki-onna, she is seeming to be a very dangerous spirit but then spares the life of the younger lumberjack. Throughout you then wonder if she’s changed and can actually live a human life. However, it is shown that she r...
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