Meng Sun

I read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline this weekend. Obviously, it is an interesting novel about an anti-utopia future image. In the future, people face issues from several perspectives such as energy crisis and politic. The distance between rich people and normal people is far. The major company such as IOI control lots of resource and rights. They are able to cheat, dentate and murder. Normal people live difficult and unhappy because of unemployment and lack of live resource. And for the rich, they have no right of privacy at all. Basic education system for poor children in real life almost broken. For those reasons, lots of people including protagonist escape real life by playing in OASIS. Another interesting thing is that author use lots of information and details of the 1980s pop culture, mainly classic video games and movies, that make the novel looks more realistic. The novel focus on the game that finding tree keys and getting the treasure, it gives the story some native e...

Both the novel  Marriage of a Thousand Lies  and the movie  Circumstance (2011)  show a kind of contemporary social situation about oppress. In those work, someone with different sexual orientation will be as “abnormal ” and “wrong” people such as lies and gay.  Pressure from both family and social; from morality and legislation; from spoken and action. But those oppress not only for different sexual orientation, but also for any action different from almost person. For example, Atafeh and Shireen swimming, dancing and singing in public place. All of those has been as wrong thing for girl by society. The most horrific thing is that person have no opportunities to deiced his or her life. Society and family will use violence and condemn to change them compulsorily.   

This weekend, I read the novel Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo. I got some fragmented information from it. This novel talks about privilege and capitalism. And Eric, who is the protagonist of this book, symbolizes capitalism. As a rich and talented capitalist, he obviously has multiple privileges, such as limousine and private doctors. He wants to get a haircut in his familiar barber shop, regardless the confusion and traffic jam caused by President's arrival in town. And he didn’t give up even though he encounters lots of accidents, such as revolt and broke. Then he leaves after his haircut is only halfway done. It looks like he on the way of his past which can not come back  actually. Eric ’s limousine physically and mentally isolates him from real world, just like capitalism. When the revolt happens outside the car, he is talking with his chief of theory in the car and does not be influenced by them. He follows after balance and rational. And he has been broken because of it. He ca...

I already read part of Jill Lepore’s book, The secret History of Wonder Woman this weekend. Because this book not only a history of Wonder Woman’s appeared, but also a history of feminist movement. After I thinking about the topic that how you would design a Wonder Woman Theme Park, I would like to make 3 parts in this park. Biggest one is history part which introducing by period of history, and other two parts is sculpture part and interact part. In the history part, I want to layout by time, and actors will play history people to reappear every important history events. Also, real video, record, photograph and manuscripts will be showed near the show. In the sculpture part, I would like to have sculptures of key characters. And The biggest one is Wonder Woman’s with 2 introductions. One about her background setting and another about her every cloth, jewelry and weapons such as her Phi Beta Kappa Key and bracelets. In the interact part, I will have several significant scenes o...