In the exposition the main characters are the family of Duke Leto. They begin the story on a planet a lot like earth with open water and lush green plants. They are in the process of moving to the planet the story takes place on a dessert world with nothing but a rare spice that is like a drug to the rest of the universe. This is what makes the conflict. The Rising Action comes when the enemies of the main characters invade the dessert world to take it back. They kill the duke and most of his men by using a trader. The trader was bribed with the chance of seeing his wife but she was already dead. The duke’s 15 year old son and the mother of the boy escape into the dessert. They are chased into a giant sand storm and are presumed dead. They escape however and join up with the dessert people known as freeman. The Freeman except them into there society and hope the two are the fulfillers of a prophecy. Both of the two survives have powers of premonition and have been trained to use there powers so it is easy for them to assume this roll. The climax is a ceremony were the mother becomes head prestos of the dessert people by tripping on this dangerous drug that she has to transform (with her mind) into a form of the drug safe enough for the rest of the tribe to trip on. She didn’t mention the fact that she was pregnant with the Dukes daughter. The undeveloped girl is exposed to everything her mother ever learned along with the old prestos who is giving the test. Then there is this big orgy of about 200,000 people but the author doesn't really talk about it, it is just casually mentioned. That is the beginning of the Falling Action. Then we are pushed forward two years in the story. The Enemies of the Duke are still just as treacherous. They are concluding the training of the next generations. The son of the Duke Paul has become a prophet of the dessert people and has versions of concurring the universe with his dessert tribe of worriers. He doesn't what the vision to become a reality but decides that it will happen weather he is there to lead it or not. There enemies come to the dessert world to try and stop the uprising and kill its leader. They enter into battle one that costs Paul his infant son. At the end of the battle Paul the Duke's son has a knife fight with the last member of his father's enemies family.
Paul then marries the princess of the emperor (his new enemy) in order to restore peace but promises to the mother of his son that he will never touch or show a soft glance at the woman and that he will not allow her to have any of his children. There is no real resolution except the end of the conflict for now, because this is the first book in a series.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
5 conflicts
Man v. Man) in this story there are several examples of this type of conflict. The duke Paul’s father is fighting with the Barron there families enemy over the planets rare resource spice. It is the main conflict of the story.
Man v. Self) A good example of this is the character Yeuh. He is a doctor and one of Paul’s teachers but he has been hired or black mailed into assassinating Paul and his father. He is constantly questioning his decision to do it and you can tell he doesn’t want to hurt the boy but there is a chance that he might get to see his wife again or at the very least get an opportunity to kill the Barron. Why he doesn’t fight with the Duke to achieve the same goal I don't know.
'Man v. Nature) the planet is a dessert world that barley any life lives on. Water is the most precise resource and people kill for it.
Man v. Society) the duke's family is new to the planet but they were made into the ruling class over the entire planet by the emperor. The Freemen the desert people who already occupied the planet aren’t really in conflict with the duke in fact he wants them as his allies. the freeman however are used to fighting the baryon the former owner of the planet in gorilla warfare so the are still deciding if that is going to continue even under new management.
Man v. God/Fate) The Freemen have a legend about someone born to a mother of the bene gesserit who will become a great leader and bring to fruition that entire he says he will do. The Freemen are waiting to see what Paul can do because he meets most of the criteria of the prophecy.
Man v. Self) A good example of this is the character Yeuh. He is a doctor and one of Paul’s teachers but he has been hired or black mailed into assassinating Paul and his father. He is constantly questioning his decision to do it and you can tell he doesn’t want to hurt the boy but there is a chance that he might get to see his wife again or at the very least get an opportunity to kill the Barron. Why he doesn’t fight with the Duke to achieve the same goal I don't know.
'Man v. Nature) the planet is a dessert world that barley any life lives on. Water is the most precise resource and people kill for it.
Man v. Society) the duke's family is new to the planet but they were made into the ruling class over the entire planet by the emperor. The Freemen the desert people who already occupied the planet aren’t really in conflict with the duke in fact he wants them as his allies. the freeman however are used to fighting the baryon the former owner of the planet in gorilla warfare so the are still deciding if that is going to continue even under new management.
Man v. God/Fate) The Freemen have a legend about someone born to a mother of the bene gesserit who will become a great leader and bring to fruition that entire he says he will do. The Freemen are waiting to see what Paul can do because he meets most of the criteria of the prophecy.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Star wars Final Thoughts
So we just finished star wars the empire strikes back and now we post our thoughts on the movie as a hole. It seems to me that at the end of this movie or hero Luke is no longer an Innocent kid trying to impersonate his father. Now that he knows the truth, he knows the dangers of what he could become along with the since that he is the only one with even a small chance of taking out his father and atoning for his sins. I'm curious, if this was real life would the rebellion even trust Luke the off spring of one of there greatest enemies? (If it was my story; at this time I would have a lot of things happen differently.) Han Solo is gone betrayed buy Lando kalrizion but everybody still accepts Lando's help in the end. This action makes me question weather the characters of star wars are as close as everyone believes. Even Chewbacca Han's closest friend and co-pilot takes off with Lando in the end supposedly to look for Han, but still chewy should have ripped that bastards arm off. This is the one aspect of star wars that I never noticed but the story insists that you have to trust the main characters. As a kid I was blinded by a wonder and love for the characters but if Lucas had wanted to this could have been a very dark extremely scare universe. If Lucas had just capitalized on the mistrust of man instead of making his characters lovable he could of made them human. What woman of power would allow the man she loved to be killed then allow the guy who betrayed him to just do as he pleased? What rebellion with the new knowledge that they have there greatest enemy’s child in there ranks would allow him to live? How could Luke trust the teachings of people who were telling him lies? If all it took was a bomb, a light saber and a grappling hook to destroy those four legged walkers on the ice planet why in the hell did the rebellion lose that fight?
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Star wars
Star war the Empire strikes back. In my opinion the best of them all. (I don't think this is what Nail wanted but whatever.) This is the dark middle act where every thing has to go to hell. The evil Empire has just suffered a terrible defeat were it lost it's best weapon a planet destroying, moon sized space station called the death star. That is a little recap for anyone who doesn't know what is going on. This is a big deal because the Empire should be all powerful mostly because it controls the universe and it's evil. However there is a small rebel force that is trying to oppose the Empire. The fact that the rebellion even exists is a meager slap in the Empires face. Even if the rebellion is to weak to fight the Empire straight up, if it some how manages to survive it could begin to develop and gain power. the fact that it just managed to destroy such a terrible weapon is probably a big step towards that goal for the Rebellion. So now the Empire is coming after the rebellion to destroy it in the most violent way possible to show the Galaxy it can't be challenged. The empire has sent Darth Vader to destroy the rebellion. (Vader is the muscle for the empire he dose the dirty work pulse he is the biggest bad in the Galaxy, only taking orders from the emperor himself.) the rebellion has been forced to hide on a frozen planet just to stay alive. Here our hero's prove themselves and there loyalty. Then one received instruction on were to go to become stronger. Vader hunts the rebellion down to this new world and smashes there base. so now the hero's of the rebellion have been separated and wile one of our hero's went off for training, the others are still desperately trying to escape Vader.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Before I discuss the religions of dune let me explain that in this universe it's as if every other religion was replaced by atheists then pushed forward 1000 years so new religions are created. there are three primary religions the religions of Science, politics, and greed and I don't have to give you any of my warped interpretations of the text because the book says this. For any one reading dune the Reverend mother explains this to Paul right after his ordeal/trial by pain.(were he had to stick his hand into the box of pain.) I'm positive all three of the religions have different names and members of there society but unfortunately I don't have my book and this has to be done by 2:00pm. Sorry, if anybody is curious I'll look it Up. Other than the new forms of religion the basic ideas of faith and morality have in my opinion been twisted. Each religion gets there own costumes and rituals i assume but really so far all I've heard about is the political religion or the Bene Gesserit. these people train and get freaky powers of perception so they can tell if people are telling the truth like human lie detectors. The religion is primarily women or at least that is what i have picked up on but they have a proficy about a male member with will get a lot of extra power and that is who everybody thinks Paul is.
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