The Water Knife
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Paolo Bacigalupi opens the novel with this sentence: “There were stories in sweat” (3). What does he mean by this? Why do you think he chose to begin with this declaration particularly? Evaluate the theme of justice in the novel. What examples of justice are found in the novel? Why do the characters discuss the concept of poetic justice? At the story’s conclusion, would you say that justice seems to prevail? If not, what message does the book seem to offer about justice?
You’re always conscious of wanting to tell a good, ripping story, and I think that has to drive everything else. It dictates how much room you have at any given time to spend on explication. You have to serve your reader’s interest.” (Brown, 2015) In chapter 16, Angel tells Lucy about a specific ritual of the tamarisk hunters. Why do you think that he chooses to share this story with Lucy? Why do the hunters share water when they meet each other at the Colorado? How does this ritual correspond to the relationship between the characters in The Water Knife? What do you think this reveals about the storyteller, Angel? Does the story seem to elicit the response that Angel was hoping for from Lucy?In chapter 39, Angel dreams of the sicario. Who is the sicarioand what relevance does he have in Angel’s life? Why does Angel have the thought that the sicariois his real father? What might he mean by this?
Brown, L. (2015, August 28). Paolo Bacigalupi Interview. Retrieved from www.sffword.com: https://www.sffworld.com/2015/08/paolo-bacigalupi-interview/ http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Water-Knife-Audiobook/B00UAWDZ32?source_code=AUDORWS0309159CVZ Water is becoming increasingly scarce, and now individual states in the United States fight each other for access to it. Dust storms threaten to engulf the US Southwest. States like Texas and Arizona have all but collapsed, forcing those citizens to become refugees. Other states like Nevada and California battle for a greater share of the Colorado River. State militias murder those refugees who attempt to illegally cross the Colorado. Meanwhile, the wealthy can buy themselves housing in new luxury arcologies, which recycle water and are furnished with lush vegetation, keeping out the harsh desert. As George Marshall noted in Don’t Even Think About It: Why are Brains are Hardwired to Ignore Climate Change (2014), there is a distinction between our rational and emotional minds. Those fossil fuel corporations and their lobbyists and paid politicians, all with vested interests in downplaying the climate crisis and insisting that we can – indeed should – continue pretty much as usual, are past masters at appealing to emotions over rationality. For example in threatening people that their actions and policies have already kept in poverty, with the idea that pursuing net zero will make them “ poorer and colder” (Wood & Chapman, 2021) and “ destroy their way of life”. (Heath, 2023) As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate change fiction.The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States. [3] Central characters [ edit ] Oreskes, M., & Conway, E. M. (2014). The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View from the Future. New York: Columbia University Press. Knife in the Water was released theatrically in Poland on 9 March 1962. [1] It premiered in the United States the following year, on 28 October 1963. [13] Critical reception [ edit ]
Polański himself had an offer to make an English-language, colour remake, with a Hollywood cast (including Henry Fonda), but he refused, saying he did not want to do a remake of a movie that was already good. Heath, A. (2023, March 29). Net Zero is a Trojan Horse for the total destruction of western society. Retrieved from www.telegraph.co.uk: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/29/net-zero-trojan-horse-total-destruction-western-society/Residents in the southwestern United States enduring that water crisis will appreciate the precision with which Bacigalupi imagines our thirsty future…. Bacigalupi is a grim, efficient and polished narrator…. Our waterless future looks hot—and filled with conflict.”—Hector Tobar, The Washington Post For someone who either thinks that global warming is a farce or who doesn’t like political writing generally, or thinks that cli-fi indicates political agenda writing, and therefore didacticism, and therefore stupidity, you’re in a different space. (Urry, 2015) Polska – Najlepsze filmy według wszystkich ankietowanych". Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi (in Polish). 2015-12-28 . Retrieved 2019-11-24. This involves reading and watching a lot of climate change fiction (cli-fi) and the Fantasy-Hive have kindly given me space for a (very) occasional series of articles where I can share my thoughts and observations. In 2014, Martin Scorsese selected Knife in the Water to be screened as part of the festival of Polish films in the United States and Canada entitled "Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema". [20]
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