Characterization(This is not based on me so don't say anything)

There was a guy who had no friends. He would try to make friends but the kids in his school would back talk about him because of what he looks like. Even all the girls would hate him because of his appearence and ignore him. But the guy always had his eyes on this one girl who would always be nice to him. He couldn't stop thinking about that girl. He would be nice to her, and make ways on how to talk with this girl more often. He didn't have any friends to discuss about this and so he asked the girl out, but she rejected him with a smack on his face. So the guy didn't eat food for weeks and couldn't get a smile on his face.

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The book that I started to read last week is called "In the lakes of the woods." I don't really now its fun because I only read a few, but the few I read was kind of boring to me. I like mystery, twisters and suspense. Right now, this book didn't really seem as a book filled with mysteries. Its not my rights to judge the book, but I wished the author would have start some mysterious events at the first part. Because the first part of books determines the reader whether or not it is fun. I mean the book felt like a romance book which I don't really like. The first part was all about his life and what hooked up his wife and himself. Right now in the book, I can't really find any mysterious elements but what I found interesting was the foreshadowing that the author shown in the book by the title:"Interview." At first, I thought this was some sort of introduction of the book, but I see that it is an important part of the book. That was the only interesting thing I could ever find. But books can change, so I would like to read this book more, and find out what will happen next.

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After reading the book "It" author by Steven King, Although all these swear words, sexual things, and gore events came out in that book, it was the horror that I was kind of finding for. After reading that book, I found out that Steven King was a famous author in horror and almost all of his publis;hed books were bestsellers. So I searched for one of his books and found a book called "Cell." I read this during the summer break and it was great! The new idea of using the most commonly used device as a start for human extinction. But the things I was not happy was because the author actually didn't tell anything about why the whole thing happened and the story's scale was basically small. Its events were similar to the novel "War of Worlds" which there is one man running around for survival. The book didn't actually fit as a "book," but it actually fitted as a movie. If it came out as a movie, it would have been popular because of the suspense and action. There were not that much elements of horror in the book, but there was alot of action and suspense. I expected horror to cool off the heat of my summer, but this time, Steven King didn't reach my expectations. It was a good book, but it was not the best book to recomend for.

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During Chuseok Break, I read the book Angels and Demons made by Dan Brown. I have been finding great fun in Dan Brown's works. Especially the Da Vinci Code. I really had fun reading that book, of how he made an imaginary story opposing to Christianity. Whoa, when I was reading this book, I couldn't get out of it. I mean the events made me fall into the book! How he used the four main elements as a part of murder really gave me a hit on the head. Although this book was fun, I didn't think it was better than the Da Vinci Code because Da Vinci Code gave me more entertainment rather than Angels and Demons. If Da Vinci Code was mystery and suspense, Angels and Demons were action and thriller. Anyway, this book was a great and it was real satifacting book that I have read.

Omega Embryos(My talk on the author's philosophy)

Reading this book gave me a great knowledge on the philosophy that the author was trying to tell us. A philosophy that I can see through this book meant that the author was really clear on his philosophy, although I might be wrong, it still means that I have a philosophy of my own that I have learned from the book.

You know why we say “Good morning” to each other? Toward my information from a philosopher, (Korean novel) a human saying good morning to each other is just a natural instinct developed through ages, an instinct that mankind has naturally made to use as a good manner. But that “manner” is just a shelter to cover up the other reason. The reason why we say good morning is to make mankind conquest the loneliness, and a way to make more allies naturally.
If we say “Good Morning” to another person, the person who gets the greeting shows affinity to the person who said good morning. But the person who said good morning thinks it’s a good manner that he/she had learned from his/her parents, but it’s an unconscious thought to the person (who greeted) that he/she doesn’t want to make enemies.
A human natural instinct says that every one is an enemy except for him or herself, but this thought is not selfish but it is an unconscious thought that people don’t know what they are thinking about. Anyway, because of this instinct, people start greetings to make friend.
Think about it, if you had a person next to you that had the same something (for example taste or likes) would you hate him or like him? Definitely liking him is the natural response; it is just like that. If you say good morning, the other person realizes that it is a good morning and realizes that both of them have the same good morning! So naturally they both show good feeling toward each other, because of the unconscious thought that they both have the same “Good morning.” (I’m sorry, I tried to translate it into Korean-English but that didn’t work out that well.;)

What I am saying, the philosophy that I am saying is just the similar philosophy that I am thinking about.
Why do we have sex? Is it just for pleasure? Is it for reproduction? I don’t think so… There are different reasons why I think sex is just for these reasons. I don’t think it’s for pure reproduction, because that is for only animals. Animal’s natural instincts are to reproduce themselves. Only mankind has the rights to have sex with pleasure, well in a different way. Sex is made through pleasure, that’s the way sex works, but animals don’t have the rights to realize that pleasure in their consciousness, but that pleasure is only occurred in animal’s physical nerves which cause sex (such as sperms…) to work. Which means that animals don’t sex with pleasure on conscious (think about it, a male animal doesn’t use condoms to have sex for fun) but instinctively does it for reproduction. Only Mankind has the rights to have sex on pleasure, that’s why people created all these kind of stuffs to control the birth, but just to have fun.

I don’t think that mankind does sex only for pleasure, it is right that they have fun with sex, but in normal cases, I think it’s because of love. Why would people say “Do not sex with anyone else until you marry?” It’s because marriage comes out from love, it is the symbol of love. Marriage means that you are together with a lover, a lover to give your virginity. People knows that marriage=love with unconsciousness so they say that. Marriage means that you are having children, and children come out through sex.

The philosophies that I just talked about both have a relation, a relation that comes out from the human instinct, unconsciousness.

I think this is the philosophy of life that the author is trying to tell us. A main character knowing about love through Shakespeare’s unique explanations and literature.
Unfortunately the main character couldn’t resist the out view of the society, where sex is just for pure pleasure and reproductive rights vandalized.
I think the author is telling us that without love, human relationship and sex wouldn’t be able to connect to each other. The novel has shown only people having sex for fun, without emotions of love; the world is destroyed on the inside.

(I am sorry; I just got a feeling that I should say this, these days I read philosophical and gloomy Korean novels so I tried to give it a try. Since philosophy is the way that you see the world through your consciousness, I gave this a try. You might not understand it, if you don’t I would be glad to explain it to you. It might be hard to you because philosophy is the way an individual looks at the out view of the world. Besides, people say that philosophy starts from a simple fact into a weird, paradoxical thought that no one can agree to it! Sorry about this.)

Epsilon embryos(setting/passage)

The setting I am about to talk about is the setting that was extremely disturbing to me and yet it was so memorable, in a bad way. This setting takes a huge part in the novel, as it takes part as the climax. The madness and the bizarre situation that is somehow unique in the real world (2008), has left a weird dramatic moment into my memories, and made me feel disgusted.
The setting was the place near the lighthouse where John used it as shelter to repeating his continuous ceremony. The ceremony made the setting very disturbing but memorable (once again, in a bad way). As John rapidly slashes his whip toward to women he had emotions, and with frenzy, he slashes shouting out with insanity.
Here is a passage that shows the insanity of this setting. The passage takes place in the setting as I said the lighthouse and one of the passages makes you kind of remember this and makes you disturbing.

“Oh, the flesh!” The Savage ground his teeth. This time it was on his shoulders that the whip descended. “Kill it, kill it!”

This passage shows kind of what happens in that setting, if you just see the passage without the book, you can’t notice the setting, but you can notice the situation that is happening.

Though I didn’t feel much of that refusal on the other setting, it was just that they were dark and gloomy. Telling the whole of the settings, I think that all of them weren’t that bad compared to the climax setting.

Delta embryos(Mood)

(Not including this blogging project, there are many times where I have read dystopia novels. In my memory, I read 4 dystopia novels in English and over 10 in Korean. Reading Korean Dystopia novels is kind of a natural, or somehow instinctive act to Koreans. Koreans usually want to understand the philosophy of the world toward morals and experiences that are written in the book; deep and a profound knowledge is what Koreans thirst to analyze and understand. That’s the reason why there are dystopian novels everywhere I see in Korea. I am not sure with Americans but I am sure about this on Koreans. Anyway, almost every dystopia novels that I have read had almost the same mood, it’s like a rightful substance that this particular mood should be in a dystopia novel.)

Of all the dystopia novels that I have read (including the last blogging assignment) I have found similarities in the mood of these novels.
Almost all the dystopia novels I have read had the mood of gloominess.

Dystopia is the opposite meaning of Utopia, Utopia means an imagination of a human world that would be the best for humanity but dystopia is the fiction world that would be the worst for humanity, definitely it matches to the gloomy feeling of people.

Through this novel, I can clearly see the mood because of the world that leads humanity to corruption. It was kind of familiar to me because it was the same mood of all the dystopian novels that I read. But it also kind of made me sad about John.
The thoughts that “If” John didn’t get to know the existence of the World State then he wouldn’t have to end up like that. After his death, a long silence and an empty mind filled with endless depression made me think about this ending repeating it over and over again...

I think that the mood of the novel makes the reader also feel like that. I thought the ending would be some how happy or at least the protagonist surviving, but this novel left nonsense ending with the mood of the whole story entering to my emotions.