Snowman, tell us please about the deeds of Crake.

Oryx and Crake

First, I have to say this is one of my favored read so far because of its theme and the way the writer tell the story. The plot and dialogues are clear and easy to understand (which is great for someone with English as a second language), and there is a scenes of realism due to its person story telling. There are many things in Oryx and Crake that interested me, such as the media of the future and the beginning of an origin story of the creator “god” Crake. There are some factional elements that can become real in the near future, such as the suicide-LIVE online site and those genetic creatures…

All the main characters feel real and somehow related to me, as the writer brings us in a journey of their childhood, teenage and adult. It’s like reading the entire Harry Potter book in one concentrated book. The events that happen (besides the ending which killed everyone) to the characters feel like something that could happen to me or one of my friends. And the two main characters have such a strong bond due to they both admire the other’s trait…Jimmy see Crake is the brilliant, and Crake sees Jimmy as the normal guy who can get girls. I can relate to those two characters easily as we all have friends that we see as the “brilliant” and some we see as “the guy who get the girls”. I think one of the reasons why this book is so good is because something big and extreme happened to two that’s normal, and we never question about the plot as somehow it all makes sense.

The book has a interesting way to telling the story take reminded you that Jimmy is the Snowman, but somehow Snowman see Jimmy as a third person. With all those voice in his head, perhaps it’s hard for him to think of himself as first person anymore, and he is still living in the cage that he created when he killed Crake. It has a sad but interesting ending, especially with “Crake’s children”. A perfect human race created by Crake, and in a way Crake is the god of the new world as he destroy and create everything in it. Perhaps it will be interesting to see how that world will become in the future, seeing Crake and Oryx as god and goddess of the world…the first time that human take the world in his own hand and create the Origin tale of a brand new world. Imagine growing up in that world and learn this story as like the Bible, and live and pray to our creator god Crake, for everything he had done for us.