English Passengers

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Hawkes, Rebecca (November 24, 2016). "Passengers: watch the new trailer, plus all you need to know about Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt's sci-fi romance". The Daily Telegraph. Pasakojimas paliečia skaudžias civilizacijos permainas – Tasmanijos aborigenų išnykimą (žinoma, ne be baltaodžių įsikišimo), kolonizacijos siaubą, katorgininkų “perauklėjamąsias stovyklas”. O visų svarbiausia – autorius remiasi realiomis istorijomis, tikrais žmonėmis ir ant tokių tikrais įvykiais paremtų pamatų “stato” šią knygą. Kai sužinai šį faktą pradedi matyti kūrinį visai kitomis akimis. Tai jau ne šiaip nuotykių romanas, tai sumaniai pateikiama mūsų istorija! After burying Gus in space, Jim learns the Autodoc can function as a hibernation pod for one person, and Jim insists that Aurora use it for the remainder of the voyage. Realizing she would never see Jim again, she chooses to remain awake with him. He presents her with the makeshift engagement ring he made earlier, which she accepts.

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The beginning of this book LIES. I love the opening character, Captain Illiam Quilliam Kewley. He is a fabulous, interesting, quirky guy who you want to curl up in front of a fire and spend time with. However... the problem is that he doesn't narrate more than a 1/4 of the book. Author LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE tries to draw you in with this good-time guy and then slams you with Tasmanian "savages" in chapters written in an insane dialect that requires a good strong shot of bourbon to get through, stories of these aborginies being horrifically mistreated by English ex-convicts, long indictments of colonialism and racism, and such. Nothing wrong with that, it just was sort of jarring and not what I thought I had signed up for. Also, the storylines seemed to often have NOTHING to do with each other. Kneale wants to do faaaaaaaar too much here. I thought I was getting into a frolic of a seafaring tale, with some incisive social commentary along the way, woven in to great characterizations and historical happenings. Grūti ir izsacīt to, kā man patika grāmatas beigas un tā daļa, kad ekspedīcija beidzot nonāca Tasmānijas mežos. Angļu pasažieru un vietējo aborigēnu lomas pēkšņi mainījās. Par to, kā viņi atsakās pieņemt acīmredzamo un labāk dzīvo iedomātā realitātē, neskatoties uz apkārt notiekošo. Par to, ko viņi patiesībā uzskata par civilizācijas pazīmēm, un kādi cilvēki viņi ir, mēģinot izdzīvot. Tāda smalka ironija, kas turpinās arī ceļā uz mājām. Kroll, Justin (July 17, 2015). "Michael Sheen Joins Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in 'Passengers' ". Variety . Retrieved November 25, 2016. Pīvaja skats uz kolonizāciju nemaz nav tik rožains, jo viņam visu to nākas izciest uz savas ādas. Viņš ir tiešs notikumu liecinieks. Sākot ar to, ka viņa tēvs ir baltais, kā dēļ viņu neieredz paša māte, un beidzot ar to, ka viņam ir vajadzīgs gandrīz viss savs mūžs, lai saprastu, ka kolonizatori respektē tikai spēku. Daudz kas par aborigēnu kultūru ir palicis nezināms, bet tās drumstalas, ko vēl zinām, autors ir meistarīgi iepinis stāsta, gan “humāno” nometināšanu, gan pievēršanu kristietībai, gan divkosīgo nožēlu par viņu izmiršanu.Reading it there were a lot of parallels to White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, the ill-treatment is not exclusively along race lines, more along socio-economic ones. The lot of the whites who were shipped to the other side of the world is no better than the native Australians; it matters little the hue of those you are exploiting in the pursuit of greater riches and power. What our kindly friend Mr. Crane doesn’t understand is that His Majesty’s colony of Van Diemen’s Land is not intended to reform criminals, but simply to store them, like so much rubbish in a dust heap, so that England can be emptied of troublemakers once and for all. Bradshaw, Peter. "Passengers review – Chris Pratt falls for Jennifer Lawrence in space". The Guardian . Retrieved December 20, 2016.

Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale review – witty, thoughtful

The general events in Tasmania are broadly true. Events on the boat provide a contrasting degree of levity. Mother was transported with lamentation... [his] getting dead made her even worse... she never would speak to me at all, even for hating."Kneale builds for him a beautiful mongrel prose: it plunders the earth and the rain for its metaphors, mixes lapidary Biblical rhythms with creative swearing, and largely prefers to use "that" instead of "the", poignantly implying a community of feeling and experience which is exactly what is being destroyed before our eyes.