"LeAvE iT tO Me"

"Leave it to me" is a novel written by Bharati Mukerjee. Topics such as multiculturalism, adoption, seek for identity, hippie movement, Hinduism, ... are developed in the novel.
Clear Water Iris Daughter, Faustine, Debbi di Martino and Devi Dee are the names the protagonist has had in her span life, each name assigned by a different person and the last one by herself.
Devi Dee is a girl in her twenties trying to find out who her bio-parents are. She was raised in an Italian-American family that adopted her at age of two. After high school she leaves New York city and moves to San Francisco in order to track her parents.
Once in San Francisco, she assumes a hippie lifestyle, lives in her car, lives for the day, uses drugs and has sex without major prejudices. She finds her bio-mother and bio-father. She, American and he, Indian. She has been a hippie, and he has been a serial killer.

The novel presents features of Hinduism and Easter beliefs througout the novel and there is an explicit analogy between Devi de goddess and Devi the main character of the novel.
"Leave it to me" is a contemporary novel, not only because of its date of publication but also because of the topics mentioned there.

Not everything is a turd

The title of this post is dedicated to Prof. Fernández. Thank God not everything is a turd for us! And you know why? Because we all had a nice, quiet and safe childhood. Otherwise, we would have thought that evrything was a turd. As in the short story presented by Prof. Guevara in which the main character deals with a turd because of his drug addiction.
Other short stories were presented in our last session. The presenters focused on Reader Response theory and on Carter & long's model in order to analyze "the last sunset" and "tackakahannakeana" After that we discussed the differences between science fiction and fantasy, and whether the short story " For the life of Sheila Morgan" was science fiction or fantasy. So we all agreed, the short story deals with magic rather than science or technology.

Before last

Before last session, we had the chance to hear Prof Vielma's oral prsentation which was called Blue, blue, blue pictures of you. This story presented a great contemporary issue which it was drug abuse, once again! Through the story the author showed the two main characters' lifestyles and the way they wanted to change eachother's life. But why would they want to change their life? Why don't they like their lives? The author author attempts to answer these questions through the whole story. As we can see not only drug abuse is present in the story a lot of contradiction about life itself is present as well. Definitely contemporary aspects from contemporary writers. After the presentation, we discussed the story called Fermi and Frost. This story is how technology is used, and if we, human beings, should trust technology or not. The short story also has "gaps" in order for the reader to have his or her own interpretation.