Blog Set 3

After I read “That Only a Mother” the world of science/technology affected this landscape in a very horrible way by having a war and radiation problems. There were many problems with children being born as mutants. The mother in this story is named Margaret and she just got pregnant. Her husband was involved with some type of radiation materials.  Her mother writes her a letter of concern about the baby because she knows that Hank (Margaret’s husband) has been involved with things that have to do with a lot of radiation. Throughout the pregnancy she writes letters to her husband, which is away for work.  She tells him everything from when the baby was in the womb till she is able to speak. Once Margaret had the baby she felt that she was perfection just like any mother would. I started to think things were very odd when the mother and her baby had a conversation with each other. The baby was only ten months and she was speaking fluently as if she was older. Margaret completely ignored the fact that her ten-month year old was speaking to her. Hank finally sent his wife a letter that he was coming home.  Margaret prepared for this moment for a very long time that she already had her whole outfit planned.  She was so excited to finally show her husband their child. Once hank came into the house he went into the rooms. He finally saw his daughter and witnesses her talking like she was 6 years old. He was amazed about his daughter being able to talk but he thought it was old that she couldn’t crawl at all. The baby needed her diaper changed and Margaret insisted on doing it herself but Hank pointed out the fact that he had experience because of his siblings. As soon as Hank took off the baby’s clothes to change her diaper, he noticed that the baby had no arms or legs. Now this is when I think the mother has gone completely mad because how could she ignore this for ten months.

After I read “We See Things Differently” we can tell that America is in a economic and social decline because they are looking up to one person to get America back on track (Tom Boston). At the moment Russia was the leading country but then some Afghani terrorist blew the country up. America got the blame for it because we supposedly gave the Afghani terrorist the bomb so they can do it. We were seen as monsters that only cared about ourselves. The author “Charlie” (if I should even call him that because its not his real name) started the story out by how everyone else sees us now. “The land of ignorance. This was America. The Great Satan, the Arsenal of Imperialism, the Bankroller of Zionism, the Bastion of Neo-Colonialism”. Charlie pretends to be a reporter and goes to a concert to see the Tom Boston. He ends up actually meeting him and asks him questions to still play the role of a reporter. Charlie ends up taking some type of cocaine that contains a deadly virus with Boston. Boston doesn’t do drugs but Charlie ends up convincing him to do it with him. At the end of the story Charlie reveals his secrets to us readers by saying his name and his role was all an act. He was actually on a mission to kill Tom so that America wouldn’t have a chance to rise up again. He took his life for his people by taking the drugs with Tom.
Update:Update: After discussing it in class, i understood these stories more in depth. I never noticed that by the end of the story that the dad might have killed the baby. Just like ever other father around the area who had done the same thing but never got convicted. Its true that mostly mothers accept their children flaws better than fathers do. But why is that? Why don’t the father’s accept it too? Who would actually kill a baby just because it came out differently? Its not like it’s their fault on how they came out. Can you imagine how that went?  Their baby could actually talk and probably knew what was going on. I don’t know how he was able to actually go threw with it, I don’t know how any of the fathers did it actually. Also I thought the husband’s letters weren’t shown because he could barley reply since he was at work. But in class everyone said that they didn’t show his letters because it would of taken the attention away from the mother. The story wants us to focus on her point of you and not his.  Now in the other story I was a little confused about it until the day of class, which gave me more clarity. Tom Boston is actually the president of the whole world, which I didn’t pick up. The whole story was a mixture of media and political which is actually pretty cool. There were also clues about a war when he said he wanted to buy a tank and aircrafts. These war tools was said to do a “performance” on but now I think he wants to buy one to actually use it in a war.