Post 5: when I started to read the beginning of this chapter I was confused. I saw the name of the book at the beginning of the semester and I thought, why is the title an hour of the day? As I started to read the beginning of the book I was even more confused. The narrator spoke so newly. What I mean by newly is that they spoke so forgiven to what I am used to. like he is trying to confuse the reader. in the first page of the chapter the unnamed    narrator states ” we sat and watched traffic and I am kidding and I am not kidding when I say that I intuited an alien intelligence,…” (Lerner 3). that entire sentence just confused me. made question the language that the entire novel would have. I always judge a book based on the language that I see on the first page. the first page of a novel is always an Introduction that will lay out the floor plan of the novels tone. I knew this book was going to be a challenge and I was here for it. I wanted to read more to see what ways can the other confuse me more. I wanted to see how crazy the main character wanted to be. As I continued to read  I was able to see what else would make me question things, then the narrator said this ” I want to say I felt stoned, did say so to Alex, who laughed and said ‘me too,’ but what I meant was that the approaching to death storm was estranging the routine of shopping….” (19). I had a what the hell reaction reading this because these two things had nothing to do with each other and It made me laugh.

post 6: The one thing about this novel is that time is a big thing. As mentioned in my pervious post, this novel continues to make me confused on what the narrator means when he speaks. The third chapter speaks about them going to the hospital to donate sperm. As the chapter progresses, time tends to confuse me more. After he donates he talks about the future kids that could happen when they use his sperm for Alex. He spoke about how he wanted to speak to his “children” as he made this whole scenario in his head. the tome frame in which he is speaking to these fake kids was a bit wonky as he would speak about when they re an infant, to when they are a rude teenager to when they are young adults. As the chapter goes on he talks about him as a child and when his mother started dating. it’s like flashbacks tend to come at random time and out of nowhere. it makes me confused but that is what makes the book super interesting to me.

In Butler and Ghosh’s novels, how does the crisis determine how people would actually react to it?

Reading novels can always impact the view somebody has of the world. Depending on the message that the author wants to send everybody interprets it differently. Parable of the sorrows, was a book about climate change in the adventures that we follow with the main character, trying to implement their own religion. Through this novel you’re able to see the hard decisions one makes and the impact it has on the world.

we first start off with the main character Who ran away from her hometown due to all of the fires being ignited by a drug. She believes in the utopia, and she went to follow it, which is heading north. Through her  journey you are able to see the difficult she has to make whether to bring along somebody or to even trust anybody that they see along the way to the north. The people that have joined her question her own leader ship due to the fact that she has hyper empathy, meaning that she can feel what others feel. She had to make a rough decision, whether to kill man or to let them be free, in order to save herself, and she was feeling his suffering When she made the decision to kill the person that’s when they owe her and her morals. But they all decide to still stick along. This just goes to show how the decisions that she had to make impacted her and the world that she lived because she depended on those people that she decided to bring along. She chose these people due to the fact that they will help her survive.

Novels help by opening the eyes to the reader on issues of the real world. As Rob Nixon mentioned a word In his novel Slow Death in the Anthropocene which the issue of climate change is an example of slow Violence. Before even reading the novel people already knew about the fact that climate change is something that is harming the world as a whole. According to Nixon Slow violence is “a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight” (Nixon, 2356). Through novels you can see the issues and how it may affect people in the present and future. 

In the same novel of Nixon, it bluntly tells the readers the effects of climate change. It tells the audience that the effects of Climate change are many things like “ acidifying oceans and host of other slowly unfolding environmental catastrophes..” (Nixon, 2356) in saying that it brings light to the horrible effects of climate change to show to the readers that this slow violence is an issue. Being told the issues allows the reader to open their mind to the problem at hand. 

Though being told bluntly about the issue they won’t actually see it until they see the results of the problem. In the novel The Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghost he speaks on the results of climate change. In the first chapter Ghost tells a story about a village that was drowned due to the river suddenly changing course (Ghost, 2). This caused many deaths in said village. This type of result will open the eyes of the reader. 

All the novels have their way of showing the reader that climate change is challenging the world and harming it slowly but with a powerful punch.