So far in the story, the main character, George Orr, is introduced as neither an introverted or extroverted man. It opens with him trying to kill himself with extra pills he got by using other people's pharmacy cards. You meet two other characters, both of whom never come back after being introduced. He isn't charged or arrested but he is forced to attend a therapy session with the well-known doctor, William Haber. In Portland, Oregon, 2002, the world is extremely overpopulated and the majority of the population is starving or dying of disease. Orr discusses that in attempting to commit suicide he was trying to escape from his reality altering dreams. Haber doesn't believe him until he's given definitive evidence that Orr's dreams do, in fact, alter reality. He then begins to use hypnotic suggestion to get Orr to dream and change things that benefit him. This novel is one of the many dystopian novels I've read, and right away you can see many surface level connections to the real world. It takes place on Earth and takes place during 2002. Along with having the same location, it also focuses on problems that we focus on today, just on a much larger scale. For example, a running theme throughout this book is overpopulation, starvation, and disease. While we struggle with finding solutions to these problems, the author wrote Orr's ability to just dream it away. Another thing that is incorporated into this book is psychology and a sort of normality that balances out the strange idea of being able to change situations with your dreams. An example of this is how Dr.Haber argues with a lawyer or sees other patients for normal symptoms, all while running abnormal sleep experiments on Orr. This normality is something that connects the novel to real life.
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Sorel
6/8/2018 03:13:51 pm
I found quite simmalr similaritys to you, Althugh i havet gotten to the parts of the book about the real world im really intested to see ho they encorperate thease consepts into the book and how they make it seem real
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Elena
6/14/2018 06:06:45 pm
Looking back, I really enjoyed this book after finally getting through it. I think the fact that it seemed so real in the beginning and then gradually became more obviously fictional was a little strange and unlike anything I've ever read before.
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Caleb
6/14/2018 08:11:05 pm
Do you think that George Orr is a schizophrenic with super powers? A lot of his symptoms seem to be along the lines or a schizophrenic.
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