Blog #4

There is finally real buddies in this story instead of kemmer buddies! I think Estraven and Genly are now real good friends and i think they should be trusting each other by now. Estraven definitely treats Genly as his best buddy since he is willing to risk his life to rescue Genly from the prison. That shows how much Estraven loves Genly as a friend. They have been through death together and now they're facing another life threatening challenge, to escape through the ice to a safe place. I can't imagine how close they can get if they can make it safely out of the ice because right now, they're spending quality bonding time together while trying to escape the ice. But then again... that is only if they can survive.....i have a feeeling one of them will die soon but not Genly since he is the narrator so i guess Estraven will die soon...i say Estraven will die before chapter 19!

Blog #3

"The man happened to be next to me on the right, and I took his head on my knees to give him relief in breathing; so he died."pg 168

When i first read this sentence, i thought Genly was just being nice by letting the man's head rest on his knee so the man can die peacefully. But after the debate we had in class today, i changed my mind. Just like most of the people in class, i am starting to believe that Genly killed the man to end his suffering instead of giving him more space to die peacefully.

Chapter 13 reminds me of the Holocaust. Genly and the other people were drugged and captured forcefully...put in a truck for a long time without food and clothing. i wonder why Genly and the others were capture....what did they do wrong?? while they were in the truck...there was a girl who wanted to kemmer with Genly...i wonder why he was not surprise at all and just walked away..was it because there was too many people in the truck and he didn't want to kemmer in front of them? i also like the unselfishness of the people in the truck..they let the weaks and the olds sit in the center while the stronger ones are willing to sit outside to give them warmth.

Blog#2

"a young man, skiing across Icefoot Lake in the month of Irrem hunting pesthry." pg 124.

what is pesthry?!?! a type of polar bear?? or penguin?? i spent a long time trying to figure what kind of animal a pesthry is...and it turned out that it doesn't exist!!! because i looked it up on www.dictionary.com and there is no such word!!

I was so mad....but anyway...i agree with most of the people in class that Estraven is not a traitor for giving up half the disputed lands to the Domain of Stok because he did so to end the feud and maintaim peace between the two Domains. If it wasn't because of Estraven's sacrifice, there would still be people getting ambushed and murdered in the wild! So i praise Estraven as a great hero to his Domain not a traitor. As for killing his three brothers, Estraven didn't have a choice but to kill them since they were after him. Those three greedy brothers didn't deserve to live since they attempted to kill their little brother for power. Last but not least, there was this one part that grossed me out...the part where the two naked guys in the hut were touching each other hand, i know they don't have gender and all...but i kept thinking that they're both guys.....

blog#1

chapter 5 is by far the most interesting chapter! the whole ritual thing really caught my attention, especially the last part of the ritual when Faxe turned into a woman with silver armor and swords i think? yea, the ritual thing was interesting but i didn't get the part where The Pervert started to touch this one man sitting next to him....i also think it is weird how Genlry is starting to think that Faxe is really pretty...i think Genlry will eventually fall in love with Faxe, but i don't know how that will work since Faxe is like a man and a woman sometimes. I guess Faxe will be the one carrying the baby if they do get married since Genlry can only be one gender while Faxe can be any gender. I also thought it was interesting how the people in the Winter have all these advance transportations such as trains and cars, but yet they don't really use it that much since they are never in a hurry to get to a place. I have a feeling that the people in the Winter really know how to enjoy life. "progress is less important than presence." this quote shows me that the people in Winter are the kind of people that would be laying on grass in a park in the middle of a work day enjoying the sunlight. They would also eat dinner for hours like people eating gourmet French cuisine, I think i can fit perfectly in that kind of lifestyle because i hate rushing from one place to another but yet i always have to do it because im always late.