Monday, June 07, 2010

Supermouse

What did you think of the Supermouse plot line?
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4 comments:

kc said...

Sorry, I keep calling it Supermouse. It's FutureMouse!

12:37 PM, June 08, 2010
Erin said...

I was bored by it. It didn't seem to have much relevance to the central characters/story. I suppose it served as a nucleus for drawing all the characters together at the end.

3:05 PM, June 08, 2010
cl said...

Struggled with that. Agreed with Erin, maybe a plot device?

Could it have been an extension of the Chalfens' sort of misguided, supremacist outlook? Or is that reading too much into it?

I think all of that Darwinian aspect to the family might relate to their looking at Millat and Irie, seeing "inferior" because of race, and subsequently trying to mold the two into material the Chalfens viewed as successful. Maybe I'm thinking too much on that.

10:28 AM, June 13, 2010
kc said...

Yeah that's a good point about race.

The thing with the FutureMouse was that it was completely programmed to do certain things at certain times, right? Its fate was locked in. (Kind of like how the Jehovah's Witnesses saw the fate of the world as already decided, down to the day). Even though it escaped at the end, weren't certain things still going to happen to the mouse at certain times? Like you can't escape your fate? I just found it difficult to apply any of this to the human characters, which is the leap I think we were supposed to make ... It all just seemed too messy, and I really didn't see the point when you think of all the literature we already have dealing with free will and man's fate! Just seems like a new sloppy, rambling variation on an old theme.

Is that too mean?

(sorry, I had to repost to fix the "it's"! Argh!)

10:01 AM, June 15, 2010

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