Week 12: Reading Assignment

1. What is your reaction to the text you just read?
 
 Well to start I mostly read sci-fi novels so reading about aliens is not all that bad. Although I was confused at the beginning about who was human and who was not. The idea of people eating or drinking from the egg creating some form of a drug was interesting. Our man character went through a odd experience that I guess in the end they knew in advance would happen. Such a odd story where this alien takes care of your family only to pick one of the children and raise it to be close with her so that they may carry her children. Evening going to the extent to explain the birth process in which our main character will one day have to do. To be honest I don't see why they chose to have the main character be the one in the end to carry her young when she could of gave it to someone else who wanted it. I know he suggested that in the end that he wanted to be close to her but prior to that he was planning to shoot her with a rifle stored away.

2.What connections did you make with the story you just read? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect.

    Well I will admit this question is harder to answer because I found the reading to be a little unclear only because I would probably need to read it over a couple times to fully understand it. But I guess what I understand from this question is that you could soon tell who was who based upon there reactions to events that played out. To start our main character seemed to be growing still but greedy, brave yet weak. He was treated the way he was because he would seem be caring the young of the alien he didn't know this from the start but multiple hints are thrown in. The way he is seen by this brothers and sisters and mostly his mother. His mother is pretty much a definition of time, she wants to grow old so she refuses the egg each time unless told to by the alien. All events lead back to drinking the egg which makes clear connection of the ability of the egg and the culture surrounding it. The author is bringing multiple elements into the story by setting up the characters making some more dynamic then others. Giving a plot that was unclear in the beginning but came around towards the middle. Also the basics of giving a clear setting of the time and location helped grasp the narrative.

3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? what changes would you make?

    To be honest I could see this being seen on a tv media form. I understand this is a short story but it leaves with a ending that be continued. I would say a series of shows would be a form of media or film for formal terms. Setting up the background more by explaining more about the reserve and why things are this way. Later setting the characters out how they all came to be or why they are together. Later ending with this event of our main character being the "one" in a sense chosen to bare the children of the next generation. I think this form of media would best describe the story provided by the text written. I would give more background information on the aliens and the eggs they have humans drink because a lot of the story relates back to the egg and its powers.