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Female equality: Do we reward girls for silence on our society? In subtle cues? Is Jean a feminist? “Feminism” is sometimes considered a bad thing even though we think women should vote, run for office, etc. The author in an interview said Jean is a humanist but Jean takes things for granted. We talked about what a feminist is. We talked about how people have done feminist things but don’t identify as one. -----
'''Rating''': Meh. Good concepts but not great writing. In another author’s hands, it could have been a good book.
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10/19/19 2-4 pm<br/>
Kirkwood Library<br/>
The author was better at building romance than science/sci-fi. Even though she is a scientist.
=== Political activism: ===How effective is it? How much of your life should be spent on it? We spent some time talking about this. The main character didn't care about activism; she only cared about science. General apathy toward politics is a default for many people.
Parick seems passive and complacent but is really working behind the scenes. In the end his way doesn't work and he takes action to poison the top people. Patricks works for the resistance, but it’s unclear how that happened and what his role was. The book is limited by its first-person narrative, so there are things the main character doesn’t know, such as Patrick’s secret doings.
We talked about what would the story have been like one generation in the future.
=== Education of children: ===Christianity is taught outright in the book, not guised as “literature” or “history.” We talked about how that blatancy would work in our world.
How would the story develop had it continued? Would the government go for minorities, LGBTQ, etc. next?
=== Language and communication: ===What would it be like to not be able to speak? We talked about how crippling it would be to your sense of self and ability to even be a person. But you can have part of yourself that is separate from language. === Female equality ===Do we reward girls for silence on our society? In subtle cues? Is Jean a feminist? “Feminism” is sometimes considered a bad thing even though we think women should vote, run for office, etc. The author in an interview said Jean is a humanist but Jean takes things for granted. We talked about what a feminist is. We talked about how people have done feminist things but don’t identify as one. === Rating ===Meh. Good concepts but not great writing. In another author’s hands, it could have been a good book.
Byron created an app to let us vote online through our phones.
