2008년 4월 7일 월요일

Entry #3 Blog #2



The characters in this science fiction are very different from each other and these characters show personality traits of some people in the real world because this book’s theme is that humans’ selfish greed cannot prepare for a disaster on mankind. The main protagonists, Bill Masen and Josella Playton, are very caring, responsible, courageous, selfless, which are some of the main characteristics of a modern hero we learned recently in class. There are other characters like Wilfred Croker, Michael Beadley, and Miss Durrant who relate to leaders with different opinions of surviving and ruling. Bill Masen is the main hero-guy and he falls in love with Josella who is a person who cares about others enormously (a lot like Mother Teresa) shortly after they meet each other. I think they both have many characteristics in common, except that Josella worries more about people who are blind, and Bill worries about triffids and the reason for all the disasters. Michael Beadley is a man who thinks ahead and puts his effort mostly to rapidly increase the amount of sighted people and Miss Durrant thinks of him negatively because she is a religious person. I think Michael worried too much only on reproducing, and was too cruel to blind men; who would have wanted to be blind? Miss Durrant worried too much on the blind people, and she had no idea what to do to survive in the future. Wilfred Croker worries about the blind people and soon ties sighted people to blind people to not let them escape. He shortly finds out that he made a big mistake, just because sighted people can see it doesn’t mean that they can help so much blind people. They can last the blind people’s lives a little bit longer, but can’t go for so long. There is a red haired man who comes in for a very short time around the middle, and comes back towards the end of the book. He wants Bill and Josella to join their party, and to separate them from their daughter (Susan, not a real daughter but real close to a daughter) to match the ratio of blind people to sighted people. The author criticizes the military or the government indirectly with this character. The red haired man desires to gain power and as much land to become stronger than other parties, even before he worries about blind people and triffids.

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