Hey Everyone,
I finally got my blog set up, but I kindly ask you all to bare with me because I was late registering for this course, causing me to be almost a week behind you all. I have finished John Wyndham's The Chrysalids and the only critical comment that I can make about this novel is whether the intervention of the sealand people at the end of the novel was the best choice? It's almost like we are just in the middle of the action and.. a deus ex machina appears, causing the end of the novel.
This is the first time that I have actually read and studied a science fiction novel; I tend to lean towards traditional Newfoundland texts (being a Newfoundlander I guess that is no surprise to any of you).
I was somewhat intimidated, thinking that a person has to have a certain mind-set and mentality to be be able to read and fully understand such a text; however, this book is a nice transition from the traditional novels that I read into the science-fiction novels of this course. This novel has put my mind at ease, and I am looking forward to an enjoyable semester with you all!
