Tuesday, 19 May 2009

ROSE with a nicely balanced review.

I've just finished 'change of heart' by Jodi Picoult. It's interesting because it's about a man on deaths row wanting to give his heart to the daughter of the man he killed daughter... and the young girl he killed sister, who was unborn at the time of their deaths.What i found most annoying was the streotypes Picolt portrayed through it. There's a character whom is Gay and in Prison for killing his ex partner, this man has Aids and the concepts she puts through about him are too stereotypical of him for my likeing.However she is talented in coming up with very unexpected endings and challenging the reader on what they would do under the same challenges, would they take the heart? is it right for a man to be on deaths row? Personally i dont aggree with the Death Penlty, for a few reasons, it's an easy way out for the prisioner, and yes it cost tax to pay for prisioners, but it also costs tax to build and maintaine a death chamber. Which brings us back to Schools thoughts for the week, budda and his teachings, ironic hey?!

6 comments:

  1. Yeah I love it when little coincidences like that happen. Then again- maybe reading Picoult just opened your mind up for a bit of Budda eh?

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  2. yeah possibly, is life just a big coincidence? Or is everything just set up? Is there a load of guys behind computers controlling everything we do? hmm hope not!

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  3. anonymous, i suggest you watch less sci-fi, and get out a bit more.lol

    but i do kind of get into those strange thoughts myself and it's a likely possibility nobody considers.

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  4. i get out plenty :p
    The idea of a load of guys behind a computer, is like peoples paranoia over how the world is run, does the goverment really have that much power? or do we determine most of it from our actions and reactions?
    Realistically things beyond are just as likely to be something we dont predict as they are the things we do prodict. Aliens and such whatnot
    does that make any sense?

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  5. "Realistically things beyond are just as likely to be something we dont predict as they are the things we do prodict. Aliens and such whatnot
    does that make any sense?"

    I dont get it

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  6. well, what i mean is, if there are aliens and things beyond us then aren't the chances of them being what we predict (from green and googglee eyed aliens to angels and demons) just as unlikely to be true as they are likely? Maybe out society spends to much time thinking about what could be, men behind computers controlling the world, than on the things that matter.

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