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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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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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Ocean at the End of the Lane Thoughts

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane’s myth wasn’t based on something which I found very interesting while reading it. I tend to subconsciously think that there has to be a deeper meaning to “weird” novels and movies, as in is it based on folklore? Is it based on the bible?             Ocean at the End of the Lane doesn’t tell what Lottie and her family are, but is hinted that they are god-like or demigods that just so happened to get a normal boy involved in their craziness. I enjoy that they wiped the narrator’s memories because I feel like holding onto those memories he had, wouldn’t end the story right. I feel like since Lottie and her family are god-like, they have to keep themselves hidden, but it does seem that there is a weirdness to them from other people. Almost like a myth. From their perspective, they just want things to go the right way and to have balance.
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