Psikanaliz itibaren Yasakmeyve içinde LIT biçim

Sophie Lyonnais sophielyonnais — What can I say about this book that hasn't already been said? I read this book because Reza and I decided that we needed to read the books we already should have. I think I faked a book report on it once in junior high or high school. I was too busy reading (and trying to understand) the Iliad and such to worry about Brave New World back then. Now I wish I had. There are so many themes that you could easily pump out 10 different books reports on this book that is less than 200 pages long. It's hard to remember how long ago it was written, since it is still so relevant today. Here are some quotes I marked: 1. "People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then (after the Nine Years' War). Anything for a quiet life." (155) How can we not consider this so extremely relevant to current life in the U.S.? I find it amazing how this book appeared to be a warning for the future, yet despite how widely it is read still today, it seems we ignored the warning. 2. "Success... completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good". (105) I have to identify with this quote on a personal level. I consider myself to have succeeded in a couple of arenas I have argued are unsatisfactory, and this reminds me that just because I succeeded, it does not automatically make them satisfactory. So I will take this quote as a warning to me directly to never forget that.

Marisa Schoen marisaschoen — "The distopia future of the United States, after an uprising against the government control, cities where closed off and forced under a strict regime. There were 13 separate “Districts” though the 13th was over taken by the government as a show to the other 12 to instill fear in the people. This is the story of a world where youth between the ages of 10 – 18 in each of those 12 districts get chosen to fight to the death in the Capitol city as a show that is broadcast nationally. Thus is the story of Katniss, the girl who is running her family of her mother and her younger and fragile sister. Katniss is a hunter, more specifically a bow and arrow hunter that she learned from her dad. Katniss chooses to go, which is a rarity on its own, instead of her young and fragile sister. From her district the boy that is chosen is Peeta a boy that Katniss knew from her class. They go to the State of Panem and are given an entourage that makes them ready for opening ceremonies, and they are a hit. They are paired together, given interviews and given coaching by the District 11 town drunk. They are entered into the staging area of the games that is controlled by a board, and it is every man for himself… or is it? Surviving is the name of the game, and it is truly based on what human race can do to live. There are bonds that are made that are meant to be broken… and what can Katniss do… killing a human is much different than killing an animal? Or is it? These games push people to their brink, those that have been training their whole lives from Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4 as Careers to those that had no other choice… like Rue. There are friendships that get formed and lies, and struggle. This books makes us question what we are capable of doing when your life is on the line… it makes us question how much power can the government have, and will this be the end of society that we know. The society that is so based on multi media they can not function. The society of different levels…. Follow Katniss in her struggle for survival and what she does in The Hunger Games. "

Francesc Lara soyellara — I never really felt like I got into this one. The story was interesting enough, I suppose, if not terribly original. It just felt like the characters never really came alive -- they all seemed really, I dunno... cold and sterile? None of the characters grew on me, not even Elizabeth or Tegan, and Gideon was one of the more unrealistic and uninspiring foes I've encountered recently. Sure, he was bad, but we never really learned anything about him -- what made him tick, what made him bad. He was just bad. That's all we got. I think Tegan was supposed to grow on us, too, but she never really did. We didn't really get to know her well enough for her to accomplish that. She was just this character that Elizabeth told her story to. Oh well... They can't all be winners.