Wilson Contemporary Lit

Candy and His dog are similar to George and Lennie in their pseudo-tyrannical partnership. Candy is very much a commanding and demanding “king” when it comes to his dog, and to how George talks and treats Lennie. yet saying the dog is like Lennie is almost inhumane but its true, George doesn’t seem to view Lennie as a proper person, Lennie is a lesser being.

To contrast their relationship Lennie gets things and is sometimes on human status, while the dog is kept in its place and ultimately put down.

I believe the next step for my book is for the True Knot to discover Abra and Dan. I believe this since the True Knot feeds on people who are strong with the Shining to keep them young, and as they continue to feast the number of people with the Shine dwindles down and they have to use old canisters of people to keep young. So as the Knot moves eastwards they will feel the presence of Dan and or Abra and they will choose them as their next meal.

Something that I really like about my book is the character building, especially with Dan Torrence. Dan started the book as a 5-year-old boy in the 70s after the Overlook ski resort blew up. Fast forward to when Dan is in his late 20s and early 30s when he is a beaten-down alcoholic who can’t hold a job, then he moves to New England and lands a job, and goes sober. One thing I dislike is the way they describe the injuries on people living or dead, cause one of Dan’s nightmares describes a dead toddler that he met and his beaten and deformed head.

One thing that Limetown and Doctor Sleep have in common is telepathy. In Limetown, they speak using a brain implant, while in Doctor Sleep those who are gifted with the shinning can speak to one another regardless of distance.

Hysteria is when people act out with overwhelming fear and or emotional distress. This idea was shown in episode five when Diedra was explaining “the Panic” and what went down that night. The person who caused the mass hysteria was Spencer, the guy in the old school with Diedra. the mass hysteria that Spencer produced was enough to rattle those who were implant-less to rise against the scientist and take what they wanted, this would lead to the panic and the death of Dr.Oscar Totem. Hysteria can affect people by bringing chaos and destruction to what is around them.

I’ve been reading Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. I’ve really enjoyed the book so far. There are many good scenes in the book. Still, my personal favorite of all is when Abra (a young girl very gifted with the shining, which is the ability to see ghosts and like telekinesis on steroids) was a few months old. She sent her parents dreams that predicted the September 11th terror attacks on the World Trade Centers. I find it memorable due to the way the information was sent out, a dream. Two separate people had different dreams but shared information on an upcoming attack on the United States of America.

Over the past 9 weeks, I have read (not finished) Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep. It is a sequel to his popular book “The Shinning” both books have movie adaptations. in the 121 pages I have read, I believe there is a huge underlined theme of feelings of isolation. Dan Torrence was traumatized by his father and the shinning from a very young age, he then grew up with his mother in Flordia. After her passing, he became a very dependent alcoholic unable to hold a job. One night Dan went bar diving and woke up in a woman’s house where he would have to make sure that her child wouldn’t ingest the cocaine they did the night before. He would then go from town to town for three years before settling and getting his life together in the New England area of the States. Dan would then meet people he enjoyed and attend AA meetings for the next 6 months. His loneliness drove him to drink and with the help of new friends in a new state and town he was able to overcome his alcoholism.

Human interaction is necessary for an active and healthy brain, people need to talk to people to keep from going insane, but what if I talk to an artificial intelligence that simulates human behavior; should it do the same thing in your brain. Kinda, so to keep one’s sanity one needs healthy brain stimulation, and humans will strive to quench their thirst for terrible small talk about how nice the weather is. So will AI take over with online human interaction, on websites that have an ask-for-help button yes without a single shred saying otherwise. This ground-breaking tech has made several amazing improvements over the last few years, so now my job talking to Randy who needs help on the website is gone. So yes I believe that an AI can make me feel like I’m talking to a real person but it doesn’t feel the same and that’s due to the lack of human emotions.

Tech has made advancements throughout history where mass majority of the time it was for the greater good of the people, like the machine gun, mowing your enemies down.

This chapter of Flight by Sherman Alexie shows us a very intricate perspective of fathers and how they choose to be or not to be a part of their kids’ lives. These reasons stem from their childhood experience how their fathers acted and how they treated them. For Zits’ father, it was a harsh upbringing with an alcoholic father who was physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive. His upbringing brought him to believe that when he had a kid he was doomed to become like his father and hurt his son and treat him the way he was treated as a kid. While solid reasoning and was very selfless he still made the wrong choice by choosing to abandon his wife and kids and it led to his son shooting up a bank and killing a bunch of people. Fathers play a lead role in young boys’ lives, their dads are outlines for the type of men they should be, some people want to be like their dad when they grow up, and some people want to be nothing like their dad when they grow up and have a family.

People want to ban books for graphic violence, sexual content (even though smut exists), and topics about race and gender. Based on these reasons for banning books I believe that I have personally been exposed to a few books that are probably banned, such as It and Carrie. It was banned for an underage sex scene, while Carrie had that in common with It, it also had graphic scenes of violence and negative views on religion. I also think other books I have read could become challenged by the public and be removed from public library shelves.

Flight is considered a controversial book due to its depictions and in-depth viewing of the native American population and their history, plus us of slurs and overall foul language. after reading most of the book I do not believe it should be under challenge or banned, the book is more than its language, the story is of a boy who had a rough life and was shot, who then wakes up in different bodies and goes on a journey of self-discovery and reflection as he views small portions of peoples lives and how it relates back to his life in Seattle. don’t ban this book.

I believe that the theme of the past 4 chapters is regret

Chapter 9 page 78 “He’s a child and I’m a child and I’m supposed to slash his throat. What do I do?”

Chapter 10 “He got me, but only after I shot a bunch of people.”

Chapter 12 page 106 “I once filled a room with bullets. I shot people who would never do me harm. And now I’m not sure I can shoot at the men who plan to kill me.”

These quotes all show that even if you do one action anything similar can feel disgusting and make you think about what you’ve done in a melancholic way.

I have read a decent amount of books in my life the genres include horror, fantasy, and poetry books, the ones that have stuck out to me that strike me as books not suitable for children are the Stephen King books I have read. These books contain graphic levels of violence and sexual content. In my current book, Doctor Sleep the prologue contains about a page of two ladies doing what can only be described as sensual same-sex blasphemy, and in the same part, a small child is reaching for a bag of cocaine that his mother left out. While I like the book, I do not believe it should be readily available to other people my age due to the amount of obscenity. Another good example of Stephen King is The Green Mile, a book about a former prison warden who is recalling his last few executions on E block which was nicknamed the Green Mile. John Coffey was accused of raping and killing two little white girls, in the end, it turns out he didn’t and he could have been set free but he said in a somber voice how he was tired of running all the time, so the gentle giant took the electric chair and fried himself, but that’s not the bad part. Before John Coffey had his turn with old Sparky a French man by the name of Edward Delacroix had his turn to walk the green mile, but his execution was terrible, a terrible death for a terrible man. Edward was not given a wet sponge for his death so instead of being shocked to death, he was burnt alive, skin burning and melting into the burlap sack over his face.

These books would probably not be recommended to me by the average person, those “normies” would say that I am too young to be reading these books about death and satan, but I personally love these books and will probably get a reading addiction from them