tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785887441872369030.post4007020745736247994..comments2024-03-27T11:17:54.694-07:00Comments on Carlee McDot: September BooksCarlee McDothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00529243020413430276noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785887441872369030.post-41509777891161186672018-10-11T14:09:44.522-07:002018-10-11T14:09:44.522-07:00About "The Power" by Naomi Alderman...
...About "The Power" by Naomi Alderman...<br /><br />I am not sure, but you may have missed the vital importance of the letters at the beginning and end of the book.<br /><br />"Neil" and "Naomi" live 5000 years from now when, not only are women the obvious dominant gender, but "common sense" in their world is that it could never even have been otherwise.<br /><br />Neil's occupation is ambiguous, but he likely is an historian or archaeologist. Implied are that his previous books are dry non-fiction, but that this new book that he has written, "The Power", is historical fiction that he hopes will help make the case for the consensus theory that archaeologists believe in which is that:<br /><br />1. Before "The Cataclysm", women did not have their skein organ and shocking ability, so men, being physically stronger, were the dominant gender.<br /><br />2. The Cataclysm occurred shortly after women gained their skein organ and shocking ability.<br /><br />This is not the conventional wisdom of Neil and Naomi's time as it is believed that women have always had skeins to protect the family while men are more muscular to be better at doing domestic chores. Conventional wisdom is that The Cataclysm was due to an apocalyptic world war among (female dominated, of course) nation states of that time (our present).<br /><br />Notice all the images in Neil's book: that is evidence of their past. The images themselves do not have anything directly to do with his historical fiction, but the images:<br /><br />1. Helped motivate that historical fiction. For instance, the image of the Mother with raised hands illustrating their power is the motivation for telling Ally's story of becoming Mother Eve.<br /><br />2. Help convey to the reader (5000 years from now) of his book what the archaeologists believe happened to cause The Cataclysm.<br /><br />Something else that is important in the letters between Neil and Naomi is that we see a glimpse into their world 5000 years from now. For instance, even if the archaeologists were correct, both Neil and Naomi do not believe that men would be as hostile as women are if men were the dominant gender and that such a world would be kinder and gentler.<br /><br />Please consider re-reading this book in the big-picture context of that I have described above. It makes the Naomi Alderman's book that much more interesting.<br /><br />Thanks for your blog entry!<br /><br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00573072125741737801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785887441872369030.post-52733970206299412342018-10-11T13:27:10.667-07:002018-10-11T13:27:10.667-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00573072125741737801noreply@blogger.com