Summary Of Watchers By Dean Koontz

Richard Wagamese, the award-winning author of the novel Keeper’n Me (2006) as well as various other literary pieces such as Dream Wheels (2006), Medicine Walk (2014), and Indian Horse (2012), was born in 1955 in Northwestern Ontario and is from the Wabaseemoong First Nation. Through the combination of Wagamese’s fictional writing blended with components of his personal life in Keeper’n Me specifically, the fifty-nine year old author has been recognized for this and other phenomenal works through a variety of diverse awards in his years of writing including being the recipient of the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications. His debut novel allows audiences to get a glimpse of what this writer is capable of and furthermore his personal life as he incorporates many fascinating concepts into it while keeping it a light read.

In the play, Neighborhood Watch, Lally Katz portrays the lives of unique individuals who are out of sync with their community but for different reasons they transition into normal well-adjusted humans. Through the play, we can see how different characters’ transition so that they experience growth and a better understanding of themselves. This can be seen through the characters of Ken and Catherine. The playwright uses symbols, magic realism and absurdist conventions to show Kens and Catherine’s catalyst for change. Through the play, Katz uses kens laptop and World of War Craft as a symbol of his disconnection from reality. This is demonstrated when he states that he knows “none of [Neighbours]”. Through the duration of play, Ken only relationships are cyber relationships and his one with Catherine. Katz shows kens absurdist way of thinking when he says “World of war craft is a community. It’s global community…… World of War Craft introduces me to people”. The playwright further uses absurdist convention and magic realism to show Catherine’s isolated lifestyle, this is demonstrated through her obsessive compulsive need to iron, her eating disorder and the make-believe relationship with her dead boyfriend Martin. Katz uses magic realism to show Catherine’s escape from reality, as she can’t cope with martin’s death. Kats shows this through Catherine’s cell phone. In the play the cell-phone is a metaphor for Catherine lack of closure over his death, this can be seen when she

Within the modern world, and the modern thought process people have about our connection with new technologies is one of constant expanse. All caution is thrown to the wind in an attempt to satisfy one insatiable hunger for a certain type of keeping up with the Jones-es. Many authors speak on the wonder of technological advances on society by the exact means of how they work, however, Richard Louv is not this kind of author. He presents technology as useful, but with an underlying tone of a technological numbing agent. We begin to only see it instead of what Earth has given us millions of years. Technology is only a certain part of the problem with the real problem being humanity's mindset toward our greatest asset, nature. Mr. Louv uses extremely profound and intelligent rhetoric to push forward the idea that us as humans are already so broken away from nature, that eventually it will be deemed illogical we used it for anything other than a means produce by it. Richard shows three areas we have really broken apart from nature with the three examples of ad space for parks, extra commodities for an SUV, and the genetic modification of animals.

Michael Redhill, author of the story “I Witness”, states that “The true measure of success in life is how well we connect”. According to him, interaction with members of the society and establishment of valuable relationships are the key concepts to achieving the optimal life. Although this may be a way to interpret success, there are countless other ways the word can be defined, unique to every individual. For some, it is calculated by social status; for others, success is solely determined by their happiness.

“Slumberland” is a suspense chapter from the book Feed by M.T. Anderson. Anderson continues revealing evidence about the relationship between the main characters, Titus and Violet. Both of them have opposite views of life, but they feel a strong attraction between each other. Even though their emotions and behaviors are not similar, they start dating. Violet seems more smart, conservative, and unfriendly than Titus. He is kind of liberal boy who prefers spending time and having fun with his friends. One day, they are invite to a party in Link’s house. They went there and played a spin bottle game, but the course of that game turned into chaos. Because Violet felt uncomfortable of that game, she did not want to play it. As a result,

“Analyze theme” In the short story “The Last Dog” by Katherine Patterson, a teenager named Brock learns not to fear everything. The lesson in this story was that not everything is dangerous. This short story really peaked my interests, the author was very detailing about Brock and Brog, the scenery was also depicted very well. I feel as though I can connect to Brock, because I love animals and am fascinated by science.

Imagine a life where the technology is so great that no one ever has to be worried about being sad or bothered by all the day to day stress. In Brave New World published in 1932, Aldous Huxley brings the reader into the future of London to see just what technology can do to a society. As the novel opens, the reader learns about how the futuristic London is a Utopia, what life is like, and all about the great technological advancements. After Bernard is introduced to the reader, he goes to the Reservation and meets John, the Salvage, where he finds out how different life is between the two societies. In the end, the Controller Mustapha Mond sends Bernard and

Allen Moore’s sordid depiction of twentieth century life presents a complex world, where the distinction between a virtuous hero and a villainous wrongdoer is often blurred. In stark contrast to the traditionally popularized portrayal of superheroes, whose unquestionably altruistic motives ultimately produce unrealistically idealized results; the realistically flawed characters of Watchmen exist in a multi faceted world characterized by moral ambiguity. America’s imperialistic ambitions have long been justified as an expression of American idealism. Much like the portrayal of superheroes in popular culture, America’s intervention in foreign affairs was portrayed as the result of a clearly defined problem, where American intervention was

It tells us that technology sometimes is dangerous and vital if we cannot gain power over it.

The short story "the gatecrashers" by SAKI starts with a man named Ulrich von Gradwitz watching his forest looking for his enemy Georg Znaeym. The Von Gradwitz family and the Znaeym have conveyed a family fight running for three eras over a bit of forested land. Ulrich's grandfather had won ownership for circumscribed land in court which had been illegally claimed by the

I have a wide range of favorite works in all sorts of genres. But, focusing on my primary piece’s genre that is good vs evil. one of my works that I choose is a book called Hideaway by Dean Koontz. I have never read anything by him before this, but I decided to give this one a shot. The theme in this story is about good vs evil. Another book or should I say books is all the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling (huge fan). Both use the theme good vs evil. In both pieces, the characters in each go through obstacles that prove to the readers their passion and fight. In each you see how the characters, good and evil are connected to each other. But, that is not the only themes that these both share with each other and my primary piece. Courage,

The reader learns that these beasts are a result of the experimentations going on by Dr.Moreau. The animals are mixed with others to create better creatures of themselves, with some examples of this being an Ape man, Hyena Swine, and Dog man. While to the reader and outside world these experiments seem gruesome and beyond any morality, to Dr. Moreau they are just for scientific research. With the experiments the reader sees a clear line in morals between the main characters. The Animals are used as “lab rats” and don't have a say in it. This may seem cruel in the story but how is any different than what people do today. Animals being abused for the “scientific research” of makeup and other items. “Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy” (Ch.7).These ideas question what moral boundaries do people cross to further science either through the view of Dr.Moreau or everyday

Keeper’n Me portrays numerous distinctive and related themes throughout the course of the novel, some more prominent than others. With the inclusion of interesting topics such as effects of residential schools,the importance of oral traditions, maintaining balance to find yourself, culture or language, and Elders, this work outlines exceptional ideas allowing readers to learn important factors all while keeping a light heart due to the incorporation of humour. Wagamese introduces ideas on Aboriginal history with residential schools and foster care through a tone in his writing which allowed readers to acknowledge how it caused families to break apart, children to become distant from their own culture and way of life, and furthermore how the idea of “beating the Indian out of the Indian” was such a major controversy. The author also regards the importance of teaching through oral traditions making it clear to the reader of the significance of passing on traditional understanding, and how it is one of the guiding aspects of the Ojibway culture.The Ojibway honour the traditional way of storytelling through means of oral tradition as it provides a more personal way to pass on words of wisdom and tradition.

In the futuristic world M.T Anderson creates in Feed, the misuse of technology is a problem the world faces. The novel Feed describes how the world could be in the future if humans let technology rule their lives. Anderson wants the reader to realize the effect technology has on our lives, and he also wants us to understand how we are being controlled and manipulated by media. Therefore, Anderson, fearing that one day technology will surpass humanity by creating a society of idiots like in the novel Feed, warns the reader from the future our society might face if we don’t make a change soon.

WATCHMEN REFLECTION The novel watchmen is a fiction work written by Moore A. The novel is fiction based on the reality happening in America in the 1980’s thus the author draws his inspiration from real world to create a captivating novel. From the title of the book, the writer hints on what to expect inside the book; watchmen. ‘Watchmen’refers to a group of super heroes believed to have super human powers that enable them to do supernatural things.