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There's part of me that doesn't want to be too hard on John, here. After all, he's just lost his mother. What's more, he's just lost his mother to her own decision to OD on Soma, a drug that, as presented in the novel, is nigh-impossible to overdose.
This could have been her opportunity to take joy in introducing John, as someone she knows and loves, to the home that she has so longed for. Instead, once she's reached that home she longed for, she decided to seek oblivion. She preferred what was openly stated to be killing her to spending time alive in the world in which she had given birth to John.
That, plus the years of abuse he suffered by her hand directly and by the Malpais people responding to her, he can lay (perhaps not justly) at the feet of Fordly society.
Yet, my point from last week remains. What we're seeing isn't a realistic society. It's a straw man concocted by someone who doesn't understand the new value sets he's criticizing. And that puts a light on what's to come.
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This could have been her opportunity to take joy in introducing John, as someone she knows and loves, to the home that she has so longed for. Instead, once she's reached that home she longed for, she decided to seek oblivion. She preferred what was openly stated to be killing her to spending time alive in the world in which she had given birth to John.
That, plus the years of abuse he suffered by her hand directly and by the Malpais people responding to her, he can lay (perhaps not justly) at the feet of Fordly society.
Yet, my point from last week remains. What we're seeing isn't a realistic society. It's a straw man concocted by someone who doesn't understand the new value sets he's criticizing. And that puts a light on what's to come.
( Read more... )
