Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Social Injustice towards vampires and Vampaneze

     The world is very judgemental and seems like it will never be able to agree with something. Their has even been wars about peoples beliefs. The problem is that people can't accept each other and always think that they're way is the better way. An example of one war over belief is the civil war because the north thought that slavery was wrong, while the south thought thought that slavery was right. This type of problem is called social change when someone fights for what they believe in. Everywhere there is some type of social issue that gets solved by some type of social change or just never gets solved.

     Things like the civil war and people not accepting each other are in my book.l In the book I'm reading, Cirque Du Freak: Lake of Souls by Daren Shan, theres a social issue dealing with what the vampires and vampaneze think about each other. The vampires consume blood by taking a couple of blood from their victims. The vampaneze consume blood by drinking the victim dry which kills them. The vampires disagree of how the vampaneze consume blood, so there has been many social actions, which usually is violence, against the vampaneze from the vampires as well as the other way around. One major war that is going to happen is the war of the scars which is between the vampires and vampaneze and the vampets who don't know who to join yet. Its not only each other they had to worry about in the books before. The humans didn't like the vampires and vampaneze killing and taking blood from them, so they would get any chance to kill a vampire or vampaneze.

     Even in books there are social issues and social conflicts, yet in real life and book life as well, there is rarely social change. Sometimes, when there is a social change, there is a social issue that follows right behind it.

4 comments:

  1. Isn't it cool how you can find a social issue in this type of book ?

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  2. Malik,

    Your last sentence, "Sometimes, when there is a social change, there is a social issue that follows right behind it," left me thinking and troubled at the same time. I wanted to hear more about your opinion on this. Great job unpacking the social issue in your book!

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  3. I liked how you chose this as your social injustice. When I read this book I never thought about this

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  4. i like how you counnected the book to the past

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