Since the last blog post, many events have occurred like Heather being able to hypnotize Orr. She becomes successful at hypnotizing him with the intention to let him rest but also allowing him to dream something that won't harm reality. However, that does not happen because she is not specific with her dream, she told him to dream of a world where aliens are not on the moon but she left it at that. In his dream, the aliens have now landed on Earth and problems are following. Orr later decides that he needs to go to Haber to change reality once again because the aliens are invading earth which are causing problems. It later turns outs that the aliens were actually peaceful and were just having a hard time communicating with humans. Orr dreams once again and aliens are seen as ordinary but now everyone has the same gray skin color. Heather does not exist anymore and Haber has started to record his brain waves. A few dreams later of altering reality where Heather is Orr’s wife and Haber learns to make anyone have effective dreams. This would obviously call for chaos leading the world starts to melt. Orr decides to turn off Haber’s machine leading the world in pieces it eventually everything becomes normal. Orr later works for an alien’s store and Heather walks in.
In one of Orr's dreams, he dreamt that everyone was equal and there was no race instead everyone had a gray skin color. I found it interesting how in Orr’s new reality everyone has the same skin color. This, however, solves one problem but then creates another. In our world racism is still very much alive but I believe that this book is able to display what would happen if we were all the same skin color. I think that it was really fun reading this book because it was interesting reading about the different dreams. I would never know what the dream could be about since it all depended on Haber and Orr, so there was no way of know. Additionally, I believed that it interesting to see that Haber and Heather were not specific with their dreams, they think about the outcomes and tried to avoid them from happening. I would definitely recommend this to a friend it was such a good read. I will comment on Angeli's and Matthew's blog.
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Connections between the book you are reading, and the real world.
Now that Orr wants to get out of the oppression of dreams from Haber he decided to get the lawyer to sit during one of the therapies. Once it was over she was able to see how it can take a toll on Orr but Haber would not share certain specifics of the treatment due to the feeling that the lawyer may share his outcomes. Orr went to therapy on a Friday which was not out of the ordinary, however, he was already exhausted from the therapies and from being used by Haber. After therapy, he had a lunch date with the lawyer to talk logistics instead he wanted to escape. He decided to go to a cabin far away from where he would not be near Haber. Once the lawyer knew that he basically stood her up, she left and decided to go where he lived to see if he was fine. After searching she was able to arrive at the cabin where he was hiding since Friday and it was already Sunday when she found him. He looked exhausted and as the book describes him, high and drunk. This was due to not sleeping he did not want to sleep given that he was afraid he would have an effective dream. Aliens are now real since Haber had told him to dream of world peace in which wars were over but the world needed someone to fight against and that had to be aliens. The lawyer, Heather, will now help him by hypnotizing him to an effective dream. This book reminds me of the book “The Giver” where the citizens have stripped away from any pain and in their society strive for sameness. They don't have any memories, colors, or climate. Although this book has climate and memories of their current world the book has a sense of dullness and does not seem like a place where people would want to live. The dullness reminds me of the book where life seems uneventful excluding the wars which seem like they are the only events. The war is a similarity I see in the book that is an event currently present in our world. With our current president having a travel ban with middle eastern countries seems to display the U.S relation with Middle Eastern countries. I will comment on Sheyla's and Angeli's blogs. The book that I'm reading is The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is a science fiction novel set in Portland, Oregon in the year 2002. The book was published in 197O it was a book set in the future where Portland has three million inhabitants, is deprived, there is a am immense war in the Middle east between Egypt allied with Israel against Iran. The main character is George Orr, a draftsman who has been taking to many medications and abusing the use of them to control his ¨effective” dreams which have been able to alter reality. After having one of his "effective" dreams the new reality is the only reality that everyone else was ever in, however, only George can remember the previous reality. After being caught using too many pharmacy cards, they regulate the number of drugs a person can consume, George kept using different cards that allowed him to get as much as he could. Being threaten to be placed in an asylum he is given the option to voluntarily accept psychiatric care to help administer his drug abuse. He begins to attend therapy sessions with a psychiatrist and sleep researcher named William Haber. He believes Orr and decides to help him which hypnotizes him and controls what he dreams. Eventually, he begins to like the idea to control reality and Orr does not like it. Which leads him to a lawyers office seeking for a lawyer to sue William Haber.
I have read a dystopian novel before and I think that it is really interesting how this book connects to the world we live in. There is a lot of similarities between this book and the world we live in now. I have found connections from their world to ours, climate change is a serious problem that we are currently facing causing temperatures to rise. Additionally, in the book, it mentioned about overpopulation which is a problem that we are currently facing today. Overall, this book is really interesting and I enjoy reading it. I will comment on Sheyla's and Angeli's blog. |
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