When reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I was struck by how closely the themes reminded me of 1) the movie Ex Machine and 2) Sophia the new AI bot. Overall, Do Androids explores the question “what makes us human?” While there is no definite answer in the book, it seems that the concept of emotions play […]
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a story of a white male’s navigations through his own feelings and identity in terms of his sexuality. Not ever fully confronting his love for men, or his desire for women as well, we trace the unbecoming of David, our American foreign in Paris, France. Baldwin states that he chose […]
In John Dos Passos’ novel The 42nd Parallel, readers are forcefully confronted with fragmented narratives tracing the lives of numerous American characters. By intermingling sections of other types of texts, Passos weaves a pastiche of differing perspectives into a single book. He incorporates small snippets of autobiography called the “Camera Lens”, other smaller biographies of […]
In the Prologue of the novel, The 42nd Parallel, we get two pages of paragraph-long sentences, mixed with random punctuation, and no clear sense of a narrator/speaker. I would like to pay particular attention to the last paragraph in the prologue which reads: “U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. […] U.S.A is … a public-library full of […]
This isn’t my story to tell, but one I can conduce about a boy who met a girl and since then she has been his muse so much she sits like a brand on his brain that he felt the need to write until the story was told and brought to light: He was […]