![]() The people live here normally, growing underwater vegetation for consumption, as well as running farms of different types of fish. Everyone lives in simple homes that look like jellyfish filled with air, attached to the sea floor the trapped air inside prevents the water from entering. ![]() This is the story of those ocean dwellers.ġ5-year-old Ty was born underwater and has spent his whole life beneath the waves it’s the only world he really knows. Then there are those groups who are looked down upon for living beneath the waters in undersea homes. ![]() In this particular doomed future the ocean levels have risen, leaving a small amount of high altitude land on each continent that is now filled with very high rise buildings and large populations living in very small spaces. Dark Life, the first in a series from debut author Kat Falls, is another example of the growing genre brought about by the success of Hunger Games, about a dystopian future where things are bleak, but everything is certainly not as it seems. ![]()
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This adaptation by the Fellowship for Performing arts is both pedantic and proselytizing. ![]() For example, “The Great Divorce” as a novel is not necessarily pedantic or proselytizing in nature. Readers of rich text know the author has established a setting which includes mood and the readers connect to text on many levels and are free to interpret what they read in a variety of ways. Lewis’s novel the adaptors have given to their production now running at the Pearl Theatre Company. The difficulty arises in the specific interpretation of C. Lewis’s novel “The Great Divorce” for the stage. Max McLean and Brian Watkins succeed in all of these aspects in their adaptation of C. The adaptor also has to delineate the characters with honesty and believability and present their conflicts and the plot they drive with the authenticity inherent in the original text. The adaptor needs to be as true as possible to the original dense text – especially in the case of C. Adapting a novel for the stage comes with considerable risk. ![]() ![]() I've had a hard time with the women Niven wrote about. spoilers ahead Do not read past this point if you want to avoid spoilers # The Characters # I've also found myself reminded about the spots in the book that I struggled with, conceptually. However, the book ends in a very anti-climatic fashion. When it comes to Ringworld I'm left with questions, and curiousity: About the Ringworld, about the Engineers who built it, but also what the characters will actually do next. But this one has captivated me on several levels. ![]() Many times I'll finish a book and immediately move on without a second thought, even the ones I loved. In the hours after finishing Ringworld, I kept coming back to the book, wondering what I liked about it, and what I didn't. ![]() Post-read thoughts about Larry Niven's Ringworld ![]() ![]() ![]() Beaton tends to turn toward the female perspectives, and often gives a voice, albeit one that is sarcastic and snarky, and attention to those women who often are the background noise. So what happens when females try to be in charge? Are they successful? How are they depicted? What do the female characters tell us about the men who try to overpower them?Ĭomics writer and artist, Kate Beaton, focuses much on parodying historical, literary, and pop-culture figures, all while offering up perceptive critical analysis of social politics. ![]() Iron Fist shifts the power scale heavily to the side of the male hero: man’s judgment is seen to trump all other opinions. But even Misty is saved by Iron Fist in “Freedom” when she, as a trained cop, can obviously fight for herself. This coming week, we begin to see Misty Knight in “Power Man” hold her own … most of the time. When we do, the women are mostly depicted only as victims. So far, in my English 418 class about Graphic Narratives, we’ve seen very few women populate our comics. Leave saving the world to the men? I don’t think so,” says Elastigirl, in the 2004 Pixar movie, “The Incredibles.” As more and more women come onto the superhero scene, the conflicts become less about right and wrong, and transform into a war of the sexes. ![]() |