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Black Hole Ending

Well, what can I say about Black Hole that hasn't been said about the Black Plague? Long, and seemingly never ending, the second half of the novel left right where the first half left me: utterly confused and turned off. So, the infected become social outcasts and decide to live at the pit. That's great. A 10 year old could see the metaphor for the obvious taboo nature of having underage sex. Maybe it requires more reading. Maybe it's not my cup of tea. Or maybe I didn't give it a fair chance. I tried, but I couldn't find it in myself to like the book.

Black Hole End

Now that I have finished reading Black Hole, I kinda hate it even more. It was not a good book at all, and I do hope that the kid dies on his way floating into the ocean because it was just kind of annoying, everyone has problems you just have to deal with ti, not run into the ocean and swim away. Entirely I probably wont read it again doubt Ill recommend it but at least I'm glad I read it, since I think you should read as much as possible to expand yourself but still was not the msot pleasant read ever.

Black Hole

I pretty much loved Black Hole. It's definitely one of my favorite novels that we read this semester. I feel like this is one of those books that people either love or hate. The thing that gets me about Black Hole is how real and natural the characters and situations are portrayed, yet there's this surrealism that's thrown into the mix that oddly works great with the plot. The novel captures a perfect picture of our society. We have all had the feeling of being alienated from a group at one point or another, so while this case may be to a huge extreme, I still think that their stories are something that we could all relate to
One thing that stood out for me was the art. The "normal" kids are absolutely the definition of normal. None of them were drawn to be exceptionally attractive, which just adds to the realism of the characters. Then we are taken to the "infected" teenagers. While some aren't so bad (the girl with the tail and the webbed finger girl come to mind), many of them have developed grotesque physical mutations that ultimately forces them to become outcasts to society. I believe that the novel is so grounded in our actual society that the freaky images stand out even more to me. Anyway, It's really hard to explain what I'm trying to say when talking about this novel, so I hope this made some kind of sense.

V for Vendetta Part Two/End

The second half of V for Vendetta is much better than the first in my opinion. The pacing picks up, and of course, the climax of the novel is revealed. Evey's imprisonment was a very intriguing scene. While it obviously was an extreme/psychotic method to get V's message across, it still succeeded in its intentions. I believe this message was that no one has control over you and that you decide your own freedom/fate. This is basically the main theme of the novel. A great example would be Finch's LSD trip. It showed what was probably the general public's feelings towards what the government had done to the minorities of Britain. Finch's breakthrough was unique in that he finally realized the freedom that V and Evey experienced, yet it didn't seem like Finch knew how to handle such liberties, which is why he still carried out the order of finding and killing V, and also becoming a recluse and detached from society.
V's death didn't really come as a surprise to me. It was almost as if he had to die to strengthen his ideals and guarantee that his goal would be achieved. V had done what he set out to do and once that was completed, there wasn't much else for him to live for. When Evey took over the persona of V, honestly, that didn't surprise me either. I guess to some it would be disappointing to have such a predictable ending, but I find it better than someone leading up to a conclusion only to throw in some crazy plot twist that completely screws up all the development that you put into the story so far, but maybe that's just me.

V for Vendetta Part One

So I had all of these written out for awhile now, so I'll just throw them all out here right now

So I guess I should say V for Vendetta starts off with a bang, right? I'm loving the gritty, mature undertone of the novel. It's great to read a novel, especially a graphic novel, openly discuss the ideas of anarchy, and actually following through with such radical plans. What's interesting to me are some of the colors that they opted to use in some of the frames to show perhaps important events or locations. For example, while talking in the room with fate in the first few pages, Sutler is this eerie purplish-blue tint that gives off the sense of being surrounded by computer lights. It's subtleties like that that really stand out from a visual standpoint for me. As for the plot at this point, it's a little all over the place. Personally, I'm having a little trouble remembering all of the character's names, which really screws up the flow of the story for me. But the plot so far is still great. V seems like a true anti-hero in the sense that while his ideals and motives are for the greater good, the execution is with a complete disregard to morality and human life. The maturation of Evey from the beginning to the middle of the novel is interesting to note as well. It's even noticeable graphically and through certain actions involving Gordon. Anyway, minus the skipping around, I'm really enjoying the novel.

Black Hole

Black Hole was a very weird book to read. It was one of those books that just told the truth and captured our society very well, but at the same time its something that we dont want to hear about our society. There was a lot of symbolism in the novel and that was quite intriguing, it was hard to understand some of it but overall it still made sense to the story. I did like the second mouth that rob had, and liked the way it acted as that subconscious one has that lets one know whats right and wrong and will tell you that but in our world it keeps it a secret in here it tells it to everyone. I do like the way that whole novel is in black and white, it adds to the story and gives it more of a truthful look at it. In all it was a good read, i did expect a little more, maybe if we had discussed it my mind would have changed a bit more. Still prefer V over this book.