2008년 4월 7일 월요일

Entry #2 Blog #2



"The Day of the Triffids" shows a situation that people’s selfishness and greed will block the way of surviving from an unexpected disaster. This science fiction shows that in the current real world, how contaminated, disgusting, cruel the world actually is. How can humans survive an unexpected disaster if they fight against each other for their desires? I realized from the book that the world cannot rebuild their society once more if they are not willing to reconsider their past mistakes. We are walking into a path that soon will be too thin to fight with each other. I think this is a major issue for people, especially teenagers. This book relates to the current world because in the book, a disaster wipes out 90% of the human race. And in the real world, there probably will come a time when another world war will occur, or a force from outside Earth destroys the human race. Why can’t people realize the serious situation we’re in and cooperate with each other instead of fighting just because of their stupid greed? Why don’t we try and prepare for the worst disaster? I feel the author’s angry emotion towards our current situation and putting effort to try and solve this enormous problem. In this book, except for Bill and Josella, people only worried about reproducing, not about the triffids that killed an enormous amount of people. And they tied people who can see to people who are blind, to make sure that the people who can see not run away. This is one of the biggest mistakes because just because they can see, they can’t serve so many blind people. I think a better solution would be to go to a safe area, or to wipe out the triffids first before they even start worrying about the size of their population. In the end of the book, the author showed some people’s desire for power even after all they’ve been through. What will power do if they can’t survive against the triffids? Those people will die before they even realize it. The author showed a way to solve all this disaster: to cooperate with each other and never fight. We have to learn from our mistakes fast. We must fix our corrupted mind and make it more useful, for humanity.

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