Back To The Present

There is so much going on in the two readings for today.—so much, in fact, that I couldn’t decide on only one subject. Instead, I’m going to list a few areas which caught my attention and write briefly about each. 

1)      In Morrison’s reading, I was hoping to hear more about the time period this young man has awoken to. I can look at our society and government today and decide that things need to change. Therefore, I know that the time which this man came from needed a major change, and don’t really want a review of why. Instead, I want the major differences are now. We get some of that in a few of the chapters, but the longest chapter is mostly back-story. 

2)      While we’re on the subject of chapters, I must say that they were relatively short. But when it came to the chapters of history, they became so boring that they felt as if they lasted for the same amount of time that the protagonist was asleep! 

3)      Diction. It is clear that the language in which this was written was way off the mark. When Morris finally indicates that the protagonist has been dropped in the 2000s, I was confused as to the reason why they were speaking in such a manner. I soon had an “ahh-hah” moment when I realized that Morris could have only imagined people speaking in the same way they spoke when he wrote the book. Similarly, Bellamy’s manner of conducting the dialogue is also a bit outdated. It would be fun to see a version of these books in which the protagonist speaks in this outdated manner, while the other characters speak in whatever the authors would have imagined to be the change in vernacular.

4)      On page 79 in Bellamy’s text, he talks about the way the society decided to change. This makes me wonder whether our society will ever reach a point in which everyone supports a common approach/need for change. It seems impossible to think of a world that is so far beyond working successfully as a unit that, without violence, they unite with a shared goal.

5)      Both protagonists seem to find the most appalled—and sometimes judgmental—interviewees to speak with. When asking simple questions about the change in government or societal standards, the character will often exclaim things like, “in heaven’s name,” or, “no, no.” It makes me sympathize with our main character. How was he supposed to know?! He’s only trying to better understand the world he has woken up to—I feel like people should try and cut them some slack.

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