For the final reflection on my common place book, I choose to reflect on how my book represents me, as I agree with Standage that common place books serve as a form of self-definition. I would like to preface this with at the beginning of this class I had no clue how to do a common place book, so a lot of my early entries are just thoughts I had while reading with no outside information looked at. Due to…
The monster I’m choosing to identify is demons, they have been involved in the show supernatural. Demons in supernatural can possess people and control them, when they are using demon abilities, or are mad, the whole of their eyes turn black. When banished from people they appear as black smoke. In supernatural the demons would fit well into thesis 2 as they seem to be always fighting demons, at least in the couple of seasons I watched, and the first…
Quote: “Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that as long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of change in her” Comment: This makes me wonder what the exact trigger for turning into a vampire really is. The sharpening of teeth signals that the change has happened but does not indicate what the trigger for the teeth sharpening is. I would…
Quote: “Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!” Comment: This strikes me as the point at which the book really starts to develop the conflict. The urgency at which it was stated that there were locked doors everywhere really hits home on that idea for me. I wonder if later in…
Quote: “There was this odd thing about the words I uttered, that they came not from me not in response to my willpower but in response to his, it was not I who will I should speak but he” Common: This stood out to me as the point at which it is confirmed that man in the bed had control over the other man. The control however is not stated how, it could be supernatural control or maybe the fear…
Quote: “In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.” – From chapter 1 Comment: This sentence really stuck out to me when I read it, I can’t pinpoint quiet why. I can see the truth to this statement however, people do strive to leave something of themselves to be remembered by when they die. But I don’t…
