Why Did Jimmy Choose To Call Himself Crake

One of the more effective allegories in the novel is the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt and then covered it with what snow they had. If the snowman was made completely out of snow, Jem's action would not be so

The setting takes place in a small town called “Starkfield”. Starkfield is a town that is just like its name, it is boring, barren, severe, and harsh. Starkfield is known for its many harsh winters that leave the inhabitants bitter and in harsh condition. Starkfield is a village that lays “under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies” (pg.10).By the time the snow is gone and things are well it snows again. Not only is the snow harsh but it acts as a barrier to many of the residents keeping

It seems that throughout the novel there is an extended metaphor of Snowman as various figures from the Christian bible. The first figure that Snowman can be said to represent is that of Adam, the first man, though the similarities between the two characters do not follow the same chronology. Just as Adam is given the animals as companions to look over, similarly Crake has ensured that the Crakers and Jimmy are both left

The word snowman is not offensive by any means. It was not created with an intension to offend, demean, or label any group. But the new term for snowman is snowperson. Frosty the Snowman, the children’s tale that familiarized America with the term snowman, was originally created as a Christmas song. (“Frosty the Snowman was a Tin Pan Alley novelty created by Jack Nelson and Steve Rollins in 1950.” Wikipedia online Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman ) . It was not a story of a snow-woman. It was a story of a snowman. The name snowperson suggests that it is unisex, and to consider Frosty as unisex would numb the creative aspects of our holiday song and children’s stories of Frosty the Snowman. This is an overly sensitive effort to stop a word that has no offensive connotation and kill its creative and historical meaning.

* Snow can be clean, inviting, playful, and even warm. It can also be start, suffocating, severe, suffocating, and even filthy.

The unkind culture of New York was irrelevant while he was in awe of the snow and towering buildings. The pure white snow gave off a new and exciting feeling for their new home and opportunities waiting for them. As he and his

The article titled "The man with the snow job" appears in the Opinion Pages, The New York Times. Author, Gail Collins, opens her article with the question: “Who is to blame for this weather?” which hooks readers’ attention and makes them curious about what they are going to read. In her writing, Collins talks about the current snowstorm in the United States and how it is used for everyone’s advantage. She also points out how government officials such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama use the occasion of snowfall for their own purposes. The author borrows images of global warming effects to discuss some controversial problems in the society these days. She applies the following elements to establish the

Next, Inman meets an old woman who lives with a herd of goats. She takes him into her “little rust-coloured caravan” and feeds him. This obviously affects Inman’s odyssey by helping him to regain his physical strength for the continuation of his journey. The goat woman however affects Inman in more ways than just this. Inman, upon arriving, looks around her camp

Crake is undoubtedly skilled and has a tendency to criticize matters in a different manner other than the common way. He is appalled by the traits possessed by humans like him, such as mating patterns, scientific knowledge and art. To him, these are evolutionary mistakes that contribute little to the survival of mankind. As a result of these thoughts he aims at changing humanity by eliminating the traits he deems useless or undesirable. His main goal is to make a different kind of breed that is self sufficient with all the desirable traits in humans, plants and animals. His succeeds in creating this breed but his goals are not achieved. First, the Crakers are not self-sufficient. They are entirely dependent on Jimmy for survival tactics. They are only capable of healing themselves and protecting their territory but they cannot sustain their growth and development. Crake’s flawed character can be blamed for these major faults in the Crakers. He never appreciated the beauty of what he never understood such as art, language and history and therefore seeks to eliminate such attributes without thinking of the consequences. Throughout the novel, Crake is presented as a morally deprived being that does not onside what the society thinks about certain behaviors. He is self driven and only acts according to his will. This is evident in his relations with Jimmy in their younger days (they watched morally questionable content online).

Once the world’s inhabitants are wiped out, Snowman is left with the task of taking care of the Crakers. Whether it is the fact that Snowman wants to be the parent he never had, or if he just simply doesn’t want to lose his only somewhat human interactions, it is evident that he cares about these creatures. In the time of crisis he exhibits a compassionate reasonability toward the Crakers because it is his duty to look after the new race of humans. Perhaps the only positive by product of his dysfunctional childhood is that he knows what it is like to be deserted and left uncared for so he strives now in his adulthood as Snowman to protect the Crakers as best he can. Even though Crakers original vision for these creature was to make them Godless and without art, Snowman taught them things in there “childhood” that contradicted there original thoughts. Snowman teaches them about the world and tries to make them understand their surroundings better, even though his explanations make him feel isolated and alone; reminding him of the sad childhood that he had. He gives them something to believe in and he teaches them right from wrong. He becomes the parent that he wishes he had had.

Inman said that “he believed the scene would never leave his mind-wall, blind man, tree, cart, road,-no matter how far on he lived (8).” Once a happy, handsome country boy, Inman has become hardened, cynical, burned out. He feels he has lost his soul and is thus unworthy of the worldly yet innocent Ada. Inman seeks solace in memories of home, where “morning on the high bald were crisp, with fog lying in the valleys so that the peaks rose from its disconnected like steep blue islands scattered across a pale sea (19).” Fundamentally changed by the harm that he’s seen men perpetuate on their brothers, Inman soon deserts, setting out on foot towards Cold Mountain and Ada, the woman that he loves.

The man learns his lesson the hard way.The man encountered many internal warnings that it was too cold to be outside. First, his nose and cheeks went numb. His face, feet, and hands followed. His beard and mustache grew icy from his breath.

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.

Snowman commences his life as Jimmy at OrganInc, which is the corporate community devoted to the pigoon project. His father is a chief "Genographer" whose objective is to produce a variety of infallible human tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig host. He progresses on to the superior HelthWyzer compound, where he works on proxy "Nooskins". Jimmy’s father was very successful in his project but not at his marriage. Jimmy’s mother becomes miserable and does not approve the immortality of the scientific work which was taking place even though she was once involved in. Jimmy meets a student named Glenn in school who was a brilliant science student and makes friends with him. Jimmy refers Glenn with the name Crake which was attained from the

Throughout Oryx and Crake, Snowman is always known for his fascination with words. Snowman realizes at a young age that he is not a numbers person in a world surrounded by numbers people. During a flashback before the apocalypse, Jimmy