Taylor Dolan

For my summer literature class. #li423

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Phoenix uses the word "abominations" to describe them. But can they truly be abominations if humans created them?

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 The beings that were being created/altered by the Big Eye are the definition of what "others" are considered to be in society.

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "Human beings make terrible gods." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Like the human factor, being "other" has a strong presence in dystopian literature. #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "They must name. Without a name, how can one command or control?" Names are something personal, something held dear #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "Africans like to tell stories, and stories travel and germinate. And sometimes, stories evolve into trouble." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Like one big game of telephone. #thebookofphoenix

[kelly nolte @knolte55]

Cannibalism is an interesting metaphor for humanities self-destructive hunger. #cloudatlas #theroad

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Who decides what makes a villain? Are these characteristics set in stone? Are some born from their circumstances? #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

@knolte55 True, and they are also able to use emotions to emphasize certain details of the story, allowing for more sympathy. #li423

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Are oral stories more likely to be influenced by the storyteller's own experiences than stories written or typed?

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

(c) destiny. You and the storyteller share everything, even your existence." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "She starts it in her own place, in her own moment, in her own point of view. As long as you listen, she is in charge of your (c)

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Did she turn that tree into the tree from the myth with her light? #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "Nothing great comes without pain." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Are they creating these beings to see what type of evolution would survive an apocalypse/end of the world? #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "What mattered was that we were who we were, and we were there." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 The mystery of Tower 7 is a lot like Somni's food employer: nothing is as it seems. #thebookofphoenix #cloudatlas

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 "And during shadowy times, spoken words carry farther than words typed, imagined, or written." #thebookofphoenix

[Taylor Dolan @teedol16]

#li423 Absence makes the heart grow fonder. #thebookofphoenix