DEWBREAKER

And how are we the viewer or reader or player connected to the world?In the first story in Dewbreaker, The Book of The Dead, the reader is just dropped into the middle of a serious conversation that immediately makes us ask questions about the context of the story. Because the reader is dropped into the story they have an instant connection to the story line and the viewpoint of Ka. The reader sees the world through Ka eyes, and start to mimics the emotions of Ka, all the fears and anger.

If you think about it this isn’t Ka usually world either. She’s in a different state, away from her home. She’s from a lower middle class family, living in an apartment in Brooklyn, were both her parents work blue collar jobs. And now she stuck in a crappy hotel room and the one person that is from her world is nowhere to be found.   

Because the story is told in the perceptive of Ka the reader is submerged in the world of the story. The way the text is laid out the thoughts of the narrator and the conversations stand out more and are easier to digest and process. It also slows the past, which in turn makes the short story’s world more realistic, and builds anxiety in the reader. The way the story is set up the reader and Ka wait for the answer to what happen to Ka’s dad together. The world of the story feels like it’s happening in real time, the reader is watching the events unfold. There is no context about what year this story takes place that's what makes it feel timeless. When I was reading I imagined it taking place in the 70’s, but I could also imagine it happening in the present too.  

Like Ka at the end of the first short story we have a lot more questions about her father, who she thought she know well. Everything is new to both Ka and reader, the setting and the new emotions/information about her father. Her world his completely changed before the reader's eyes.

LUST

Lust

How are male and female roles defined?

In Lust it’s written in the author's perceptive of how interaction between her and different guys have gone. Each paragraph there is a little taste of each guy’s and what the writer thinks about them and time she spend with them. But we don’t really get to know her. Both the males and the writer seem to have the same role, both are mystery and only small parts show a glimpse of who they are. Even though this short story is about the writer, she seem to viewing it in an out of body way. Or she’s looking back on some of these memories and trying to figure out why.   

Even from the women’s perspective of tell the story, her role still feel secondary. At the end, the writer seem unsure about the relationships she’s had with these men and unsure of who she is as a person. All of the boys in the story don’t really have personality they seem like props that want to have sex then leave after, or are an asshole or the writer stops talking about them. The writer doesn’t give us the opinion of the men in this situation. The writer doesn’t really have a hard opinion on men. She just shares her experiences with different ones and leaves the decision of what to think of men to the reader.

Some of the paragraphs the writer see what men do to her like when she writes “I could do some things well. Some things I was good at, like math or painting or even sports, but the second a boy put his arm around me, I forgot about wanting to do anything else, which felt like a relief at first until it became like sinking into a muck”. I think it brings up the point of losing one's self in a relationship, in cases of both men and women you as a person become secondary. I think what says trying to she is that her role as a female and her self interests change when a man is in her life, how every short a period it is.    

WONDER WOMAN

Lotus

Lotus doesn’t hide behind a disguise or alter ego, she lives among monks in the mountains of Nepal. Where is practices finding inner peace and perfecting her Kung Fu training. She is a wise, intelligent, funny character, who can read other people's minds and move things with her own. She’s passionate about equality for all and saving humanity from their destructive ways.

Lotus doesn’t hide from the world because she knows who she is and she embraces her differences. But she lives a humble life and doesn’t like the attention of the public life. That’s why she lives with monks in Nepal because she can live in peace. She believes she is a civil servant and her gifts are used for the good of the public. But she doesn’t work for a government agency, she is an independent servant that helps people across the world. Because she tries to remain unbiased and uses her wisdom and own moral compass to try a resolve problems without resorting to violence first.     

She practices meditation because it helps her clear her head and blocks out the voices of the people's thoughts. Her practice of finding inner peace also helps with strengthening the able to move things with her mind. The reason she can read minds is so no one can lie to her, she can see all people for their true selves. Make her an excellent judge of character which lets her decide who she is going to help.

To make her more of a badass she is fluent in Kung Fu. So when she isn’t kicking ass with her mind she can mess you up with her sweet moves. This combination makes Lotus both physically and mentally strong. Which makes her in balance with her the mind, body, and spirit.   

Because she lives a life of simple means and is often burdened with difficult decisions and emotions and worries of others so she keeps it light with humor. She is very funny but most people don’t get her humor, but she makes herself laugh.

She helps people all around the world with terrorism, natural disasters, war, and unsafe living conditions. She cares about all humanity and she goes up against people who don’t. People who are driven by greed and money.