İris ve Roman, rakip iki gazeteci, sadece birisi köşe yazarı olacak. İkisi için de bu pozisyon çok önemli, ikisinin amacı da aynı farklı dünyalardan gelseler de. Köşe yazarı olmak için her şeylerini ortaya atacakları bu rekabette hayatın onlara sunacağı sürprizden habersizler.
Serinin ilk kitabı İris'in abisi Forest'ın Tanrıların Savaşı'nda savaşmak için cepheye gitmesi ile başlıyor. Bu gidişin ardından ise İris ve annesinin hayatı eskisi gibi olmayacaktır. Okulu bırakmak zorunda kalan İris gazetedeki işinde çalışırken Roman ile köşe yazarlığı rekabetinde her şeyini vermeye hazırdır. Tıpkı Roman gibi...
Roman ise zengin bir ailenin çocuğu. Ancak zıtlıkların birleştirici gücü ikisinin de kaderini yazmaya başlamıştır.
İris, cepheye giden abisine ulaşmak için daktilosunda yazdığı mektupları evlerindeki gizemli gardıropa koyduğunda mektupların abisinin eline ulaştığını düşünür. Taa ki mektupların ulaştığı kişi kendisinin Forest olmadığını söyleyene kadar. Gelen cevaptan sonra ise aralarında zamanla kendi hayatlarını, duygu ve düşüncelerini kaleme aldıkları büyülü mektuplaşmalara dönüşür.
Tanrıların Savaşı'nı, Roman ve İris'in yaşadıkları ve aşkın gelişini kendisine has kalemi ile aktarmış yazar eserinde.
"Bence hepimiz zırh giyiyoruz. Bence giymeyenler aptallık ediyor, dünyanın keskin
kenarları tarafından tekrar tekrar yaralanmanın acısını yaşama riskine giriyorlar. Ama bu aptallardan öğrendiğim bir şey varsa o da savunmasızlığın çoğumuzun korktuğu bir güç olduğu. Zırhını çıkarmak, insanların seni olduğun gibi görmesine izin vermek cesaret ister. Bazen ben de senin gibi
hissediyorum: İnsanların beni olduğum gibi görmesi riskini göze alamam. Öte yandan zihnimin derinliklerinde bir ses var, bana sürekli, "Bu kadar ihtiyatlı davranarak çok şey kaçırıyorsun," diyor." ( I
A Critical Review of Humankind
Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind is one of the books that questions negative ideas about human nature and makes readers think. For many years, many people believed that humans are naturally selfish, bad, and only care about themselves. However, Bregman does not agree with this idea. According to him, human nature is not as dark as people think. Instead, people are more willing to help each other, understand others’ feelings, and do good things. In the book, the author supports these ideas with many examples from wars, psychology experiments, history, and biology. One of the best parts of the book is that it gives hope about humanity. Still, when I finished the book, I did not only feel admiration. On one side, I was happy to read it because it made me think differently. On the other side, some of the author’s ideas felt too optimistic to me. Because of this, the book was both interesting and questionable for me.
One of the strongest parts of the book is that it makes people question ideas about human nature that many accept without thinking. Today, we often see violence, murder, wars, and fights on television, social media, and in the news. After some time, people start to believe that the world is full of bad people. At this point, Bregman asks an important question: If humans were really bad by nature, how could societies survive for so many years? A big part of human history was shaped by helping each other, working together, and surviving together. From this side, the writer’s ideas are important and meaningful.
His ideas against the belief that humans are naturally wild are especially interesting. Today, when someone behaves badly, people sometimes say, “Did you grow up in a cave?” However, Bregman says that hunter-gatherer societies were not as violent as many
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Bu volume çox da bir hadisə olmadı. Ancaq obrazların arasında olan əlaqələrə daha çox toxunmağa başladılar. Bu da hekayəni növbəti volume-larda kompleksləşdirməyə kömək edəcək.
Bu manganın getdikcə həyat və canlı olmaqla bağlı daha da çox düşündürməsi xoşuma gəldi. Ona görə bir neçə "quoto" paylaşacam sizinlə.
"If he wants his wounds to heal, they will heal, but he doesn't feel any pain. So he doesn't think of healing them. If it's a life threatening wound then of course it will be healed" — Bu hissədə, məncə, həyatdakı ağrı və əzablarımızın sadəcə bizim öz əməyimiz və fərqindəliyimizlə düzələcəyini yaxşı vurğulayıb mangaka. Bilirəm mən də bu çoxda bilinməyən bir şey deyil, ən azından xoşdur oxumaq.
"Life... being dead and being alive. Ain't they the same thing? What matters is to be living?" — Valla mənə də arada bu düşüncələr gəlir və özünəqəsd seçimini gözdən keçirirəm. Am js kiddin'
"What does it mean to have life? It is not like ya disappear from this world when you die. The form of yer soul just changes. It is not like you become seperated. They go through birth and death but souls won't be lost. They're always by your side." — Bu çox romantik bir baxış bucağıdır. Hər bir insan unudulmağa məhkumdur, əgər nəsə edən tarixi bir fiqur deyilsizsə. Hər kəs unudulur və önəmsənmir. Yaşayarkən belə bəzən bunu sizə qarşı edilir. Ruhunuzu gözardı etməyəcək şəxsləri tapmalısız.
In Amis’s famous novel, London Fields, the witty language is used and highlighted in the book repatedly. With the use of wit and pan (word play) Amis creates one of the most intelligent written novel ‘London Fields’. These uses of high elevated language and word plays also gives us the hints of postmodern fiction. As the novel is considered one of the best novel representing postmodernism, one can appreciate it due to the style that the novel is written, by means of wit and language. To give examples from the book;
-It was fixed. It was written. The murderer was not the murderer. But the murderee had always been a murderee.
The quote from Samson Young foreshadows that the real murderer is not the one we think, it will change. However the murderee ‘Nicola’ will always be the victim, not be affected by the inconstant murderer.
- I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet’s mistress.
In this quote we can also sense the metaphor that is made to Nicola. Here Samson , as a writer, claims that the poets are writing poetry due to the relationship between their mistresses. It is known that Young also writes a novel about Nicola, creating the same plot with the poets he criticizes.
-I close my eyes, trying to see a way- how do writers dare do what they do ? – and there is just chaos. It seems to me that writing brings trouble with it, moral trouble, unexamined trouble. Even to the best.
-When God got mad he was a jealous God. He had other planets, thanks, and in better parts of the universe. He promised plague, famine mile-high tides, sound-speed winds and terror, ubiquitous and incessant terror, with blood flowing bridle deep. He threatened to make her old and keep her that way forever… Cross that firebreak and then cross that
In the Depth of PostmodernismFelsefe
I've never read a book that was both so complex and so organized at the same time as this one. Metafiction, fragmented structure, questioning metanarratives, posthumanism, postcolonialism, and all the "post-" are combined in this book. The book's self-reflective nature and its direct conversation with the reader have made it one of my favorite books written from a second-person perspective. It has a style that leads the reader into paradoxes, confuses them, and definitely broadens their horizons. Especially the stories that follow each episode are like a narrative version of the main plot of that episode. For example, in the first chapter, we, as readers, embark on a journey. A reading journey. The title of the next chapter is "If on a winter's night a traveler". So it's about someone who's embarked on a journey, a traveler. But this episode is cut short, and our character's journey is interrupted. Just like we, the readers, are constantly interrupted by the narrator throughout this book. There's a mystery in this chapter. We don't know what that mystery is. We also encounter a mystery while reading this book; which book are we reading? Why is the book incomplete? Where is the rest? And in the next chapter, we, the readers, are on the hunt for the continuation of the previous story. We go to the bookstore and find another story that could be a sequel. But this story we found has been replaced by the main story. Just like the main plot of the story we are about to read. So throughout the book, we, the readers and narrators, speak first, taking on an active role. At the end of each chapter, we read a different story. And these stories are like continuations of the previous chapter's narrative.
This rather confusing book achieves its purpose: it bores the reader. But
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
I have read a most staggering and profound book. I don't want to give spoilers, but I want to mention how this book affected my feelings and my thoughts about society. South Korean author Han Kang writes this book from three different perspectives. She criticizes the traditional and patriarchal society of South Korea.
At the beginning of the book, Yong-hye's husband tells us about his wife. He describes her as an ordinary woman with nothing special about her. One day, Yong-hye has a nightmare and decides never to eat meat again. This causes a major conflict within the family. Her father hits her, and for this reason, she attempts suicide. Later, her brother-in-law takes her to the hospital. Due to the Mongolian spot on Yong-hye’s back, he becomes obsessed with her and sleeps with her. His wife catches them; consequently, both of them are taken to psychiatric clinics.
Yong-hye consistently refuses to eat meat and begins to think of herself as a tree. Her sister feels sorry for her, yet on the other hand, she has been unhappy since her own marriage. Yong-hye believes that eating meat is related to violence. Society, her family, and her husband all want to take control of her life and body. Yong-hye maintains a silent resistance against South Korea's traditional and patriarchal society. At the same time, she wants to transform from an animal into a vegetal entity.
This book is about how people defy societal norms to find freedom. The Vegetarian is not just a book about diet; it is a story that depicts a person's desire to be one with nature.
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