How was myth reinvented within the context of
the story you read for this week? In what ways were the myth made relevant to
the contemporary world?
Within the first few chapters of reading this novel I
honestly didn’t know if I would be able to finish it. The fantasy attempt by
seemed awfully lackluster to me. The whole brothering being a spider bit seemed
interesting and slighting interesting that his father was a god but the follow
through the novel was, to me, slow and boring.
They focus on more drama through out the novel instead of a full
fleshing out of the fantasy. It feels more a drama with a side of fantasy
instead of a 50/50 split. The novel had some resemblance to Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde
shown through Charlie and Spider. When spider begins to take Charlie’s place in
his daily life spider receives many blessings that Charlie doesn’t get to
enjoy. As soon as spider enters his life all his lucky disappears and he must
work to gain it back throughout the novel.
Two themes I saw in the book were always love your family and be careful
what you wish for.
I understand what Gaiman tries to do with giving us a
mythology for a modern time but for me it just didn’t translate and I wasn’t
able to lose myself in the story. Maybe it’s the combination of modern times
and mythology that bothered me because I felt an underwhelming amount of
mythology as I tend to like things very different than reality or just straight
modern world stories.
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