Week 5 Post#3

First off, for literature to truly speak out to me, I have to do two things: enjoy it and understand it. For me, Oryx and Crake filled both of the above criteria. One of the main reasons it spoke to me is that it was very shocking, almost an eye opener. Now I may not agree with everything she predicts or share in her utter pecimistic outlook, but I do appreciate being given insight into the "worst case scenario" of things. With all the global warming, ozone depletion, natural resource depletion, and genetic manipulation debates going on daily in the media, you some times become desencetized to it and therefore don't really ponder it too much. Like the phrase that was beaten into us during middle school sex-ed, "it can never happen to me" isn't always the truth. Every generation simply convinces itself that problems are hundreds of years away and by the time we encounter them, technology will have a solution; well Atwood doesn't agree. Though I did find the text, as I stated earlier, a bit over-the-top, I was intrigued about her vision of some of the things that could happen. Finally, the text spoke to me the most because after hearing some her ideas and proposed horror stories of the future, I actually got on the internet and researched a bit to see exactly how acurate she has the possibillity to be (the topic of my final paper). This was the only text that smacked me in the face when I finished it and was slow to put it down, staring out in awe and curiosity; I loved it.