Opinion About The Exam

Well, for this exam, I feel I was more prepared about what was to come, mostly because you had already told us what did we have to investigate and because you allowed us to bring our notes. I did not use this last resource because it takes more time to read and copy than just thinking about the answer, I do not know if it works like this for everyone, but as long as it works for me, it is just fine. For the long questions, who were like the most important part of the exam, I fell I extended myself in some of the answers and therefore, I used more time than I should have used. As long as I remember, my longest answer was the one of Harrison Bergeron, By the Waters of Babylon and A Sound of Thunder's societies, but for that question there could not be short answers because of all the descriptions about every society must be included. Generally speaking, the exam was sort of easy, in a way, the only thing that keeps in my head is the fact that I missed three of the small questions, but I hope that missing part of the note can be completed with what I wrote on the other questions. In conclusion, I think this exam was more extended than the past one, but I think I have to focus on writing faster so that I can write more in less time and with that, I will not miss more questions in further exams.

PLAYLIST

The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Tiger Lillies - Bully Boys
Rage Against the Machine - Pistol Grip Pump
The White Stripes - A Martyr for My Love You
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Strawberry Fields Forever (Cover)

Harrison Bergeron

First of all, I enjoyed this story because it is a reflexion about how will societies be in the future, and, if they will be like the one describes in the story it makes you think if a a perfect, ordered, controlled society is really possible to achieve.
This story, more than being a good work of science fiction, talks about rebelion, inconformity, about making aside the routine world to make one's own fate. Even if in the story the rebelion was not fully achieved, that action may be a decisive factor for the story which could happen after the written ending, because maybe after everyone saw Harrison reveal himself before all the spectators eyes, they would be able to see that they can change their handicapped condition. I think that if people from that time appliedwhat they had read in the story, maybe it wasn't but unconsciously but it was in that time (we are talking about the decade of the 60's) when most of the social movements took place all around the world (student's movements, the hippie movement, the movements for women's rights, etc.).
As I see it, I think this writer was trying to express his feelings about the world situation in the time the story was written. I think he was against all of the government's procedures and measures it used to keep the population under control so they would not have more politic troubles than they had in that time.
Generalizing, I think it is a good story, it is well narrated, it is very detailed, it captures the readers' attention from the very begginig to the last word of the end, and even when it finishes, it leaves with the doubt of "what will happen next?, will more and more people reveal themselves?, will it be a mass rebelion of the skilled people so they can defeat H-G and the whole government?,etc.". Also, for finishing this text, I noticed that the author gives very limited clues for predicting the ending, so it involves you more and more in the story and that makes read carefully so you can catch all of the details the writer leaves for us to perceive and, furtherly, comprehend the story even better than if someone just read it without paying attention to it.