Climax

I did not have any specific expectations for the climax, really. I figured it could go any direction because of the plot taking unexpected turns through out the book. Rachel pushing the goat off the building was such a surprise to me. I did not see that one coming. I truly though that she loved Rick and that in the end, it would work out. Maybe that was the naive part of me, wanting them to have a happy ending. I figured all the androids would die, though. So that was one of my expectations, you could say. So far, I like this book. We never really read anything like this in high school, so it's almost refreshing in a way. Do Androids Dream is intriguing, due to that fact we could possibly have this in the future. I mean, technology is improving everyday. We do not know if cloning is in the future, but it has potential to be. So this book definitely shows possibilites, even though it's simple science fiction. 

Specific Scene

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is just getting crazier as the chapters move on. Never did I imagine one of the humans having sex with an android. That was the scene where I found most interesting. Rick and Rachel were discussing the events still needing to be done, then they end up in bed together. I feel as if Rick knows he does not want to. On page 163, Rick even says that he needs to go home to his wife. He is doing exactly what Phil said to, which he never imagined doing. Clearly he did not kill her after, but how does he know he wont? I just do not believe that Rick is not freaking out about doing that. One, he has a wife and two, she is not real. That would just make me want to not do that. 

I found a few things confusing.

1. How is Rachel going to kill a fellow android, Pris?

2. I don't get the concept of the Mercer guy or the Buster guy. I thought, by the way they were described, that they were just simply made up identities. Androids are the only things they could be, yet they are still in question. I just thought that was weird.

Chapter 11 of A&B

Chapter Eleven of A&B is all about revising and drafts. I already knew about revising and what a draft was, but once again, A&B went far more in depth than any high school class I had. I found two concepts pretty interesting, which are locally and globally. Locally is to make changes to text that affects only the sentences you are working on, currently. Globally is to make changes to one part of the draft that drives changes in another part of it. I never considered making changes in my draft to be categorized, so I learned something new.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

"Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," by Philip K Dick, is a strange book. The focus of Rick's life seems to be getting himself a real animal. I don't understand the importance of having a real one, rather than his electric sheep. If status is what he wants, then he already has that. No one but his neighbor knows about his electric sheep. Everyone else in his building believes it to be a real sheep. Therefore, his obsessive and constant desire to have a real animal is unnecessary. Also, I found it really cool that in the end of chapter four, Rachel Rosen was his first test subject. The fact he got to test people to see if they were human or androids was pretty neat, but he was blown away that she was his first test subject. I feel as if this is foreshadowing something to come, whether that be good or bad, I do not know.

Concept 7

While reading through A&B, I learned about a few concepts. The one I find most interesting would have to be concept 7. During high school, I wrote numerous papers and thought my writing was correct. I was wrong. A thesis was always needed for the papers we wrote, but I never knew there was so much to it. Concept 7 explains how thesis statements are supported by points and particulars. A point is an idea, generalization or a claim, while a particular gives evidence, details, examples, data, and subarguements. I found this concept so interesting because I never knew there was so much to a simple thing such as a thesis statement.

I learned plenty of things while reading A&B. Along with the new facts of a thesis statement, stated above, I learned about reading with and against the grain. Reading is one of my favorite things to do and to find out there are many different styles, in which you can read, was really neat. Going with the grain is based around a man named Carl Rogers. He states that it's "empathic listening", which is trying to see the world through the authors eyes. You can also read against the grain. This is simply questioning the author. There was so many new things I learned, but those two ideas stuck out the most.

My ideas of writing changed slightly. I now realize that something so simply is actually quite complex. Writing has rules and regulations, just like anything else.  I knew most of them, to which high school prepared me for. But never did our high school english courses go in depth as much as A&B did. I will have to alter my writing style for future writing assignments.

Eng 151

This class is English 151. It's a class to help us be prepared for other college courses in writing and literature. The focus of this class is on the Apocalypse. I am writing this blog to share with my classmates my thoughts on the class and the materials we are covering.
The technology I'm most exposed to is my computer and my cellphone. I also work at a movie theater, so I am exposed to things such as cash registers and film computers, and other computers used in the office. During high school, we wrote papers frequently. We used MLA format, which will be helpful now. I enjoy to read, so I'm exposed to reading often. There's no specific type of book I read.