Harrison Konick - Lit. of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction

I really enjoyed this story, even for how insanely creepy it is. My thought through the whole story was who this shadow person in her house really is. To start they talk in the second person, which is super odd, I dig it for this story but it really is very different. And at first it made me think that it was some kinda bug or something. Quickly that feeling changed though. I started wondering if it was an alien of some sort but it doesn’t seem that way because it looks like her. So, then I’ve got to wonder some more. Maybe it’s a creepy doppelganger. No. I eventually landed on the idea that it was her shadow. This thought intrigued me. I thought about how creepy it would be to have a sentient shadow like that. One that ran off and did things in the night. It even makes reference about how it hides low behind her entering the doorway, and that is also reinforced by how it makes a habit to hide in dark places. Ultimately I landed on this idea, but one other lay back...

So, I read an odd little story by Issac Asimov for the final week of the class. It was about a machine, and a final question someone asked it, oddly familiar to the most important question asked in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Here however we have a story that’s less complicated. Instead we have to guys arguing over the meaning of forever essentially. Which really turns into a critique on modern morals. Of how we use things for as long as we can with the expectation to just move on once we’ve used every last drop. It, just like all good science fiction satire, which I got to say this is kind of light on, is what makes this story matter. It makes us ask ourselves a question. I like that about these stories. It’s like when films like Blade Runner make us ask a question about our humanity. Or when in Fallout 4, they begin to in a very similar vein ask you the question of how you would really know if you are or aren’t a synth. If that really matters. This story...

Okay, big book, read it a while ago, time for a mental recap! In all seriousness, this book at the time was one I kind of forced myself to read, I didn’t really have the time but I’m glad I took the time. It’s magic Romeo and Juliet. Okay but really though I find it interesting how this book is so much like so many other stories in plot. Example. It’s obviously got the Romeo and Juliet connection, but you can also connect the story to something like The Kingsman in which we have mentors of whom take kids, or in the movies sense young adults, and train them to compete. You can even make the comparison between the two in how they feel this connection to each other to the most recent Star Wars films in how Rey and Kylo Ren often feel this strong connection to each other. Now none of this means that any of the subjects took from the book, but I do find it interesting to look at how these stories can find these connections to other stories. No more common is this then ...