Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Confusing cybernatic world "Pattern Recognition"

In "Pattern recognition" by William Gibson , mystery and/or spy genre of fiction fits this novel as it is full of mystery. As the novel starts there is a famous F:F:F web add going around on internet which is creating a lot of tension betwenn various companies and getting a lot of public attention. Blue ant hired chayce as a consultant but later offered her a job to find out who is behind all this add and why are they making it which is completely mysterious and even throw off Chayce because she didn't know why are they giving her this job and what it is? On the other hand Chayce also finds out that someone is sneaking in Damien's house to get information about her personal stuff which she mainly think is Dorotea. Furthermore Chayce own work habits are confusing which she clearly not yet told, sometimes she likes her job aspects but some times she completely hated it as she describes her personal hate against some of the trademarks and logo which surprisingly Dorotea also know about and Chayce quoted it in these line "I'm allergic. To certain trademarks/I know she does"(p164). As Chayce went to Tokyo with her friend Boone chu to find out who made F:F:F add that got such high sensation with the help of her friends from her social network site. As she was working there, she finds out that someone is following her to know about her every step which puzzles me that what Chayce knows that everyone want to know. Then when they come back to London Boone Chu tries to get answer from Bigend because he think Bigend is the one who sent those men's behind Chayce this creates the feeling of something fishy as if Bigend is the one who sent those men's but then why did he send Chayce in first place and if he didn't trust her than why did he offer her partnership in his company this story is just revolving around in a circle. After listening to Boone Chu, Bigend start asking Chayce about her trip to get every piece of info from her which ultimately makes her not to trust Bigend because of his change in behavior. So there is lot of trust issue going on and which creates a sense that Gibson is trying to convey a message that science changes the way people behaves and also increases competition.
Internet and the prospects of online social networks
Internet plays a major role in this novel in setting up plot and in transferring of information from one character to another character. Chayce trusted more parkaboy then any of her reality friends whom she met face to face. Even though she had never seen parkaboy and don't know who he is she trusted him and even followed his every piece of advice. Email also act as a tool to bring long distance relationships closer as when Damien send her a email of what's going with him in Russia when Chayce is in London it sort a feels like internet had shrunk the world and even it helps to travel information faster even though you are sitting miles away from your friend. Cayce in this novel frequently used forum to check what's going on her field of work and her recent updates from her social network friends especially from parkaboy. So we can see there are lots of things going on which revolves around Internet and we can also say that Internet act as linkage between various mysterious characters of this novel.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

"A Rose For Emily" from different point of view

If "A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner's is to be narrated in first person singular point of view then reader's perspective and way to look at this poem will also change because now reader knows what one person thinks about Miss Emily rather then how whole town thinks about her. According to me this can bring some drastic changes in the chronological order as before narrator of the story tries to educate reader what this story is about by giving some details about Miss Emily death in opening paragraph. But if same story will be written by Tobe point of view who is Miss Emily servant it would have been started by giving some description of who he his, what's his job was and who he was working for? After that Tobe would have given phyical characteristics of Miss Emily how she looks and what's she does everyday rather than pressuring reader to figure it out what she did in her house alone having no one to share her feelings except her servant. In part 3,4 and 5 original narrator just saw glimpses of Miss Emily coming out of the house and buy some stuff from a drug store from which town people thought that she want to kill herself by drinking poison, reader concludes this from the way narrator describes it but instead if Tobe narrates it he would have given reader clear reason why Miss Emily bought it may be there was really problem of rats in her house as later in the story Tobe was the one who brought that rat poison from the store. So we can say according to Tobe point of view meaning of this story and Miss Emily lifestyle would have become more visible rather than being mystical throughout the story.
As from Homer point of view, he can help us to know more about Miss Emily love and soft side because it was impossible to know it from town's people as all of them have different view about her and they tend to fluctuate throughout the story as they interact more with Miss Emily. Other than that Homer could have help us as a reader to know what's going on in the house as they start living together as this could be the one of the aspect that would have been same for Homer and Tobe. But Homer come later in her life so I think Tobe point-of-view will be better to narrate this story because he lived with her for greater time of period and he knows how she think and reacts. He could have been more helpful telling reader how healthy was the relationship between Miss Emily and Homer and also may be helpful in giving some reasons how she died because in the end of this story he just left the house I think this is because Miss Emily may had told him to go away or he is free to go any where without telling someone how she died.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

"ALL Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" by Richard Brautigan

In the poem ALL Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan poet is trying to be sarcastic about scientific technology because in all the stanzas he is favoring science by writing positive effects about it and how it will change things once it start playing role in our everyday life. But in every second line of each stanza poet changes the tone of the poem from positive to negative as in second line of first stanza poet wants to say that science only gives pleasure for small time after that it start showing its characteristics because nothing good comes out form it whenever man tries to play with it. Also poet is describing how it will help to promote harmony in nature as we can see all around us what type harmony poet is talking about “where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony”(4-5). In the end of first stanza poet use simile to compare harmony advertise by science to the pure water as we can see that all the invention that science brought in for our comfort produce pollution which in turn polluting our natural resources so I think poet is trying to tell us that even though we see science as useful now but in future we are going to be devastated by its work and results.
Poet also had post technology tone and message in this poem, I think whole poem is filled with positive things about technology such as what’s going to happen when science start reaching in our regular life and how much it can make us free. In every stanza except his sarcastic second lines he used scientific terminology with calm and peaceful words to show how science going to promote harmony in nature. In the last stanza as poet say that science and machines going to handle our day to day work that it going to make us free from many responsibility and will let us go back to the nature and admire its beauty “where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature”(20-21). Poet even mentioned about living with mammals and other animals who are our ancestors, according to him this will bring us closer to each other while machines are watching us and other things which signifies science effect is that machines are going to control everything.
According to me poet is siding more toward anti-technology because I think he is trying to be ambiguous when he describes positive things which science going to bring in nature which actually corresponds to all negative results. That’s why poet wrote every second line of each stanza in present right now which shows the reader that science inventions are just good for small period of time and are going to have bad effects in future. In last stanzas where he describes all people and animals living together but in lines(24-25) “and all watched over by machines of loving grace” poet is saying that everything that we will try to do machines are going to watch us which is kind a understatement that poet made in these lines, I think this means that machines will start controlling every aspect of our lives and by loving grace poet means to say that what we thought is helpful to human nature will change its course and will dominate the whole world.