Wayward: What the work tells us about right and wrong

This book has a good amount of conflict centered over the idea of wright and wrong. A character, David Pilcher, is the creator of a town in the future of earth where humans have become mutated, twisted things. He keeps the townspeople in the dark about what the outside world is really like, but they are slowly gaining knowledge. the townspeople are also fenced in with a perimeter of electrified metal. One of the main conflicts is the internal conflict with the main character, Ethan Burke deciding whether he agrees with Pilcher or not. One of the main questions that I would say is asked throughout the book is whether or not protecting people against their will is right or wrong.

Wayward Independent Reading Book text-to-world

This book I am reading I have already started and I am a decent way into it, today I will be making a text-to-world connection that I have previously thought about while reading this book. In the book a town is sheltered from the outside world of a changed earth in the next century. The unknown threat to the townspeople is actually the remnants of humanity, morphed and disfigured by increasingly unstable genes. Humans, now four legged, translucent, hunting predators, evolved into these twisted things as their gene pool became increasingly worse. I have connected this to our world today because in our world similar things are happening; People rely more and more on technology, obesity is up, sickness spreads quickly, etc. People are just progressively  getting weaker and weaker just like in the book when they evolved into the twisted creatures. This connection is a good one because I connected the book's main conflict to someting very, very similar in real life. Who knows, maybe the author was intending the reason humans morphed into these things to actually be what is happening in society today. Everyday we hear more and more about conflict, sickness, and violence. This is one of the closest connections that I have ever been able to make between a sci-fi book and the real world today.

Practice Post: Fahrenheit 451

In this post about Fahrenheit 451 that we just started in class I will be making predictions about what happens later on in the book based on what I have read so far. In the book we have been introduced to the main character Guy Montag, his wife Milldred, a strange girl Clarisse, and the fire captain Beatty. Montag has been talking with the strange young girl and has maybe had some of his life views changed. We also see that Montag has stashed books in his vent (Books are illegal). Due to the fact that he is a fireman, one who burns books, and he is harboring books, I belive his cover will be blown and he will end up being hunted by Beatty. This will have an effect on both his wife and Clarisse and would turn his whole life upside down. I think this mainly because of how he talks to Clarisse and also because he may decide to open up the books he stashed and read them.