Today, we began our discussion of Oryx and Crake. I introduced it (notes below) and began showing a Powerpoint (we got up to explaining the schools the two friends went to).
Novel: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (be sure to underline the novel as it is a major work).
Three main characters:
Jimmy = Smowman
Glenn = Crake
Oryx = Su Su (real name unknown)
There are also the Crakers.
The story begins in the present (which is the future) and flashes back to two other time periods: The "before" when Jimmy was a youth; the "During" when Jimmy was an adult; the "after" which is the period after a virus has wiped out man.
It is written in third person, limited omniscient (we can see what Jimmy is thinking but it is not using "I").
Much of what Jimmy's thoughts are stream of consciousness.
This is a dystopic novel (look this up).
Much of the discussion focuses on reality and the natural vs. constructed worlds.
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