Dear Mr. Bukowski,
In your work - "Dinosauria, We", all the examples you wrote detailed made sense to me. I see society as a sort of..... entity? I'm not sure if that's the word I'm looking for. I see society as an entity that consumes people and makes them self-destructive. I personally believe that ambition is dangerous, and the future you described is a result that I completely see as a possible future that comes as a result of ambition.
Sincerely,
Milton Chung
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Father and Son
Barren wasteland, gray skies, cannibals roaming about.
Not exactly the best place for a kid to grow up.
In the book - "The Road" a father and son grow up in a post-apocalyptic land, where they fight everyday to find food, evade cannibals, and simply try to survive as humans, with no real goal.
As the story develops, we gradually learn about the child's relationship with his father, and how growing up in a place like this affects the boy.
The father tries his best throughout the story to try and protect his son from everything in the world that can harm him. In my opinion, it's because of the fact that he's not accustomed to this new world.
The father grew up in a "better" world than this, and he's teaching his son to live by morals and principles that he grew up learning. His principles however, may not be suited for this world. Some of his principles actually hinder their progress. For one, his refusal to resort to cannibalism even in the circumstances may seem admirable to us, but in their current reality, him and his son may actually die if he keeps holding on to principles like that. If his son continues to live after his father dies, living by these morals without the skills to actually survive by himself can only lead him to his death.
Not exactly the best place for a kid to grow up.
In the book - "The Road" a father and son grow up in a post-apocalyptic land, where they fight everyday to find food, evade cannibals, and simply try to survive as humans, with no real goal.
As the story develops, we gradually learn about the child's relationship with his father, and how growing up in a place like this affects the boy.
The father tries his best throughout the story to try and protect his son from everything in the world that can harm him. In my opinion, it's because of the fact that he's not accustomed to this new world.
The father grew up in a "better" world than this, and he's teaching his son to live by morals and principles that he grew up learning. His principles however, may not be suited for this world. Some of his principles actually hinder their progress. For one, his refusal to resort to cannibalism even in the circumstances may seem admirable to us, but in their current reality, him and his son may actually die if he keeps holding on to principles like that. If his son continues to live after his father dies, living by these morals without the skills to actually survive by himself can only lead him to his death.
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