Strange New Things Book Report

The Book of Strange New Things is a science fiction book written by Michael Faber. The book explores concepts such as aliens, traveling to foreign planets, and the complications that come with doing so. This novel uses the conflict of being overwhelmed by having to make a difficult decision, makes a symbol out of the main characters bible, and shows how much the main character was impacted by his loved one’s thoughts, words, and actions. In this novel, the main character, Peter, is given the opportunity to leave behind what he has to go work on a foreign planet, Oasis. But the conflict sets in when Peter begins to get overwhelmed by balancing his Oasis life and his Earth life. He is unsure of whether to continue the work he is doing helping the people of Oasis, or to return home to his pregnant wife, who is getting more and more frustrated every day. He learns that a man can not balance that much, and must eventually make a choice. After much stress and consideration, Peter decides to return home, despite his wife no longer wanting to be with him. He just had to go with his gut, and he packs his bag, gets his one way ticket home, and his “keys to a house that might, by the time he got there, have a different lock” and ends the stress and feelings of being overwhelmed by making the
Leading up to the final decision of Oasis or Earth, Bea grows frustrated with Peter. As their relationship begins to fall apart, Peter begins to fully realize the impact his new life is having on his chance of repairing what he had left behind. Once he learns that while he has been helping the Oasans grow in their faith, his wife was losing hers completely, he is aware that he must leave his current journey to complete an old one. Upon receiving that email, “a voice came to him and said, don’t be stupid”, showing that it was Bea’s actions that caused the choice leading up to the resolution of the novel. (Faber,