Helva and her decision.

As we read in The Ship Who Sang, I found it very interesting that Helva decided not to stay on the Courviki planet. After thinking and discussing in class why she didn't stay it all started to make sense. As we talked about in class, well if she did stay there would be no ship, therefore would ruin the story, but also it is on a much deeper level. I was thinking about how weird it would be if i switched bodies with some but still had my same mind. I would never really feel like myself. I would be half someone else, which is the way I think Helva would feel. She is the ship and without it she just wouldnt be herself. It is what she knows and feels and really just who she is.

Bloodchild

So far my favorite reading was Gracling, but I think the most interesting and outside the box reading was Bloodchild. I love the way that the reader could in an abstract way relate Bloodchild and the Reservation to real life. I also really like how Bloodchild presented an alternative world to the reader of what it would be like for men to also be responsible for giving life to children. Gan was going to be responsible for bearing the child of T'Gatoi which is a huge responsibility. I fell like through this story men get to realize how hard and what a big responsibility is it to be responsible to bring to life a child. Although I found this story hard to understand at first but after going back and really reading it not just for the words it easily became one of my favorite stories.