Review Of Margaret Atwood's 'The Year Of The Flood'
THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD
The Year of the Flood is a dystopic book and the continuation to Oryx and Crake but you don’t have to read Oryx and Crake to understand The Year of the Flood, I did not read that book but yet I fully understand what was happening. The Year of the Flood is in two other characters’ point of view.
Synopsis of Oryx and Crank
In Oryx and Crake, this story tells that Crake formed a virus to kill off creatures from the earth to have enough space for a new race of genetic hybrids called “Crakers.”
Synopsis of The Year of the Flood
After being survivors of the virus they need to decided their next move and make it quick, they can’t stay hidden forever. This book portrays issues that we face in the real world and that adds reality into this fictional dystopian.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author and was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She poetry, short-stories and novels, Margaret is best known The Circle …show more content…
Game, The Tent, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, and more. Her works have been translated into more than 30 different languages. Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood is considered to be the best book on Canadian literature.
Quote from the book
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence.
And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar, and grammar would be impossible without the FoxP2 gene; so God is a brain mutation, and that gene is the same one birds need for singing. So music is built in, Glenn said: It's knitted into us. It would be very hard to amputate it because it's an essential part of us, like water.” (Atwood, 2009) This quote is basically saying that when you say you are dead, you aren’t really dead because you are still using present tense and not past
tense.
The Year of the Flood is a dystopic book and the continuation to Oryx and Crake but you don’t have to read Oryx and Crake to understand The Year of the Flood, I did not read that book but yet I fully understand what was happening. The Year of the Flood is in two other characters’ point of view.
Synopsis of Oryx and Crank
In Oryx and Crake, this story tells that Crake formed a virus to kill off creatures from the earth to have enough space for a new race of genetic hybrids called “Crakers.”
Synopsis of The Year of the Flood
After being survivors of the virus they need to decided their next move and make it quick, they can’t stay hidden forever. This book portrays issues that we face in the real world and that adds reality into this fictional dystopian.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author and was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She poetry, short-stories and novels, Margaret is best known The Circle …show more content…
Game, The Tent, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, and more. Her works have been translated into more than 30 different languages. Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood is considered to be the best book on Canadian literature.
Quote from the book
“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence.
And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar, and grammar would be impossible without the FoxP2 gene; so God is a brain mutation, and that gene is the same one birds need for singing. So music is built in, Glenn said: It's knitted into us. It would be very hard to amputate it because it's an essential part of us, like water.” (Atwood, 2009) This quote is basically saying that when you say you are dead, you aren’t really dead because you are still using present tense and not past
tense.