Shades children essays

Shade's children essays This book seems to be one of Garth Nixs better works because he expands the mind more then he did in the last novel that I read by him, (Pullmans journey). Pullmans Journey took place in the mid 1700s and was about a poor man struggling to support his family. When he struck upon a bright moon rock, that was said to give him power over night and day. This way he could make his life easier, and essentially control time itself. The overall consequence of this was that whenever he awoke it was day and whenever he slept it was night. This sense of strange happenings made me feel like I wasnt really getting into the book. I never knew what was going to happen and I didnt feel that any of this book was relevant to anything. Most of the books I read I like to make a connection with. In Shades Children, it differed from my life completely in everything except, that it expanded my thought into an area where we rarely see. This book talked about what the future could be like, although it is highly unlikely, theres always a chance. Children were kept in large dormitories and raised to be soldiers with chips placed in the back of their heads to keep them controlled. Large monster type beings called Myzophers controlled these childrens lives. The way it all got this way was when a government corporation took over and stole away every family and killed the adults. Now, a few selected kids have been brought to safety by escaping and being helped to their destination by Shade and his sidekicks. All Shade is in the book, is a computer program and a floating television. Everything in his little society is well organized and under control. He is trying to eventually take back over the world, and re-gain fr eedom. Sure this all seems very puzzling, which it is in fact. I had to read a paragraph over a couple times to finally get wha ...