I really like the point that you made here about trust. I did not think of it that much while I was reading but I definitely agree with the fact that it is a common theme throughout Saga. I particularly like that you pointed out the trust between Alana and Marko. I think that the trust between them is the most important and prominent in the novel. I think that the ultimate point of trust for Marko and Alana was at the end of this volume when Marko pushed Alana and Hazel off the top of the lighthouse, trusting that Alana could use her wings even if she didn’t trust herself enough to try it before. This was a huge risk but they trusted each other enough to pull it off.

I agree with the point that you made here. It is a very complex novel and I think that you explained it really well by using the word coincidence. There are so many events that may not be intentionally connected, but since we are analyzing the entanglement, we see a similarity or cause/effect situation. I also think that you developed The Stalk’s death well but using details from other scenes in the novel. I did not realize that if The Stalk had allowed The Will to help her, she would not have gotten to them first and been killed. I guess another connection similar to that is if she did not have previous drama with The Will maybe she would not even be where she was alone.

I think you made a great connection in this post. I love the interconnected drama in Grey’s Anatomy, and think that you are correct in saying this is the reason that the show a hit, among many other reasons. Saga also contains this interconnected drama, and especially shares the common drama between ex-lovers that Grey’s Anatomy also has. I think that a huge reason why Saga is interesting is that the author puts so many characters and different plot lines that you have to keep reading to find out what twisted drama will happen next. I also love the picture that you chose for this blog post because it illustrates your point well.

This is a really great point that I thought about while reading as well. The humans in the novel want to get back to what they are familiar with that they just blatantly refuse to accept their current situation, which is really dumb because then they can’t ever achieve their goal of getting back to earth. I thought you had a really well developed point throughout your post and related it to the novel and the real world to better the connection. I thought that you could have brought some of the questions you presented at the end of your post to the beginning to start off the post with inquiries.

I think that you really made such an interesting point in this post. You found a way to comment on the human, and pointed something out that I have never really thought of. I did realize that The Will doesn’t seem entirely bad, but I have never thought about how we tend to place people in large separate boxes. But it makes me think of another potential example of this. People tend to categorize each other as Republican or Democrat, and if the person is in opposition to your own viewpoint, you automatically put them in a separate box clumped with their party. However, there are people who may be a member of a certain party and not necessarily agree with all of that party’s viewpoints.

This was an interesting point/connection because I never would have thought of that comparison but it makes a lot of sense. Lilith is a lot like a refugee and I think that you could have thought of more ways than you wrote about. I think this could have been your opening and you could develop the idea more to make it your main focus. The beginning seems like more of a summary that is unnecessary, but the end of your post had in depth analysis that was very new. I would just add something about posthumanism as well to tie everything together.

Although I’ve never read Lord of the Flies, I think you made a great connection here by comparing Lilith to another outcast based on some of the things she is now capable of. It is strange that she is disliked because she is providing for the humans there. I thought that you started to develop this connection really well but then you veered off to make other unrelated posts towards the end of your post. The ending points were also well thought out and made progress at defining the human but you could have reworked the original point you made into the ending to keep a central theme going.

I thought your post gave really great reactions and analysis of quotes in the book, but maybe you could connect them all somehow to make one overarching point about humans. You could have developed the idea of death and human emotion, or stuck with why humans feel the need to be clothed. The three quotes are good because you showed different parts of the novel but I think that it would have flowed better if there was something connecting all the points. You should also try to use the posthumanism perspective while analyzing some of your quotes to strengthen the arguments.

I agree completely with your point you are making here. I think that it was a good idea to focus on the business side of this novel because I was not thinking about that while reading this book. I like the connection you made to our Biz 100 class because it shows that you are already using your business skills to analyze other things in the world. The topic of ethical decision-making is very important in this book and others. You’re topic makes me wonder if the aliens in Dawn are making ethical decisions for the entire world by taking some humans and deciding when to Awaken them. I think this post because it got me thinking about larger topics.

I think that Hillary makes a great connection in this post to a similar situation in our world. I think that including this quote really supported her argument because it is clearly related to Caitlyn Jenner’s situation as well. The choice of words in this quotation: Helen was unable to look at the “thing” that replaced her son, implies that Siri’s mother does not even see her son as the same person. Even though Caitlyn Jenner’s mother supports her change, the obvious fact is that she lost her son that she knew as Bruce.

The difference between the two situations is that although Caitlyn is still the same person inside that she’s always been, there is a huge physical change. Siri has had a change inside his body, while keeping the physical appearance the same.

I thought that you made a good point here and it was interesting to bring up. I was really into the part of the comic with the test subjects. I wondered why they wanted to modify their bodies so badly. But then I realized it is because they are only human and so many humans would love to change everything and anything about themselves. Humans would love to change their bodies so much that they would go to the extremes. But because we are lazy, I think there is definitely a chance that the future of weight loss and exercise could be changed to a more mechanical process requiring less human effort and more advanced technology.

I really liked the whole theme of this post because I also did not even notice the mention of eyes in the novel. I thought that this insight was very interesting and well backed up from the examples you found in the book. I especially liked that you used a cliché quote to base your post on. I didn’t think it was bad to use the cliché because it applied so well to your thoughts about the eyes in Blindsight. I loved that you took the time to analyze more than one characters’ eyes because it supports your idea really well. I think it was a good idea to talk about a human body part because it develops the idea of the human we have been discussing.

I really thought you made some great points in your post about communication and interconnectedness. I particularly thought that it was interesting that you brought up Facebook, and how we are able to friend one another via Facebook. The concept of physically seeing what mutual friends we each have with each other is incredible. That is just another step into the posthuman world where you don’t have to connect the dots of how you know someone; you simply look on Facebook and the Internet can tell you what friends you have in common. I also thought you made a great connection to the book in this post even though it strayed from the idea of being connected through media, you really made an interesting point in talking about the characters all being a part of the same body.

Jackson’s point here reminds me specifically of a time over the summer this year I was traveling. I was in an airport in Minnesota at a restaurant where every single table had two iPads attached. The waiter simply came over to tell me how to order on it, swipe my own card, and left.

I was upset because the app was confusing and I just wanted to order my food normally. The entire lunch i sat through at this restaurant while only communicating with the iPad made me realize how posthumanistic we already are. The fact that our world has already begun to lose the face-to-face interaction at a public restaurant is terrifying when looking to the future at how our world will be like in 2082.

I think that Alyssa makes a good point here. I agree that Spider seems to be the least religious person and that his name is very contradictory. I also think that the fact that Spider Jerusalem is the way he is could be to serve as a representation of our society today. Spider’s character could symbolize the kind of people we are becoming. The author maybe exaggerated Spider’s crude and vulgar tendencies to show the readers what we may become in the future if we continue to simply dress up at Jesus and pretend to be kind people but continue to sin. This idea may be a stretch but Alyssa’s analysis made me think that Spider’s character may have a bigger meaning.

I agree with Syshane’s opinion that the headlines of news articles and other media can change the way the public views it, and affects how the public reacts. She made a great connection/example with the reference and pictures of the OJ Simpson case. The visual of the OJ Simpson magazine covers really added to her argument.

I loved the closing paragraph and thought that the idea of mirrors and funhouse mirrors were a perfect way to illustrate her point. I do think that the last paragraph should have been the thesis though, and then just tied in or repeated at the end because it was such a great thought.

I provided a link to a website that talks about misleading titles of news articles. I think that this connects to Syshane's point because even though technology has made getting news out so much easier, there can still be miscommunications and people will react badly to journalism done poorly.

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/example-of-media-bias/3-headlines-that-mislead-readers/