Oryx and Crake Response 2

Character Development


Snowman, or Jimmy is described as a character who takes great interest in online streaming, video games and literature. During post-apocolypse, their are various occasions where Snowman uses arcane (or figurative speech), which the Crakers do not understand, making Snowman upset.The greater part of this novel is focused on and seen through Snowman's thoughts and flashbacks. Margret Atwood essentially depicts the other characters' personalities through Snowman's perspective and judgements. And we discover more as we read about his many thoughts and how things were in the past. As the reader, we are already knowledgable of Snowman's personality, surroundings, family, friend(s) and interests; however, regarding Oryx and Crake, there are still many things unknown to us. Furthermore, everything is from Snowman's perspective, so we only get to see things as Snowman does. Crake is a character who has always been witty and not quite as loquacious as Jimmy, his character is a mystery to us because although we know some minor details about him; his motives, his thoughts and his reasonings remain unknown. The novel seems to be set up in a way, so that the further you read on, the more secrets are uncovered. The pieces start falling into place and there are some answers to the questions we had in the beginning, such as what are pigoons? rakunks? Why were they invented? Why aren't Crake and Snowman friends now? Although there is still a lot to question, Snowman will presumably answer them eventually. 
Oryx, who is possibly the third most mentioned character in the novel, is very mysterious. Through Snowman's flashback, we know of her past as a child but no more than that. She is very corrupted, even to the point where she has no realization that her situation is moral outrage. Besides this, Oryx is only been brought up when Snowman daydreams about her. There is yet to discover more connections between her and Crake.


Eye
I chose this photo because I think it represents the Crakers (as they are characters too), because almost everything about them has been modified, whether it is eyes, hair, figure, etc. it has been "fixed". Nevertheless, whenever I have thought of a future, more sophisticated human being, they have always been more complex and able to do much more. However, in this case, Crakers are much more simple than humans. They do not feel lust, they are able to feed themselves with "herbage" that is self-produced, and they have simple minds and simple speech. Despite this, when the words "modified being" comes into mind, I still can't help but think of something more complicated, than something simpler.