Post your comments about Harlan Ellison's story "'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman" here. You might address the story's extrapolations (likely? reasonable?) or style, or compare it to other "rebels of the future" films or stories you are aware of.
I really liked the whole description about the jelly beans. I could really picture them all raining down and all the different colors they were and the different sounds that they made when they landed.
ReplyDeletei didnt really like the writing style of the author because at the beginning it was hard to understand what is going on. in some parts of the story it was hard to visualize what was happeneing so it made the story boaring.
ReplyDeletethis is a really difficult story to understand. i was wondering what a dick bong is. it is interesting to find out everyone is a robot; the strucure of the story made me believe they were humans.
ReplyDeleteThis story was very confusing at the start and alot of the language was confusing but it was a great story otherwise
ReplyDeleteThe Harlequin's trick reminded me of throwing marbles down a hallway watching people trip all over the place. I was confused how the author shifted the story from the beginning to the middle and end.
ReplyDeleteThe consequences of being late in todays world aren't quite extreme as in the story, but it did remind me of being late for class and being out of sync of time.
it was a rough start, but once i found out everyone was a robot it was much easier to understand, and overall i thought it was a good story.
ReplyDeleteI found this story a little confusing. I would hate to live in a world like this where you need to be on time for everything because i am late to almost everything.
ReplyDeleteThis story was a bit confusing for me. The time changes where random and sometimes did not have the best bridges between different times. I did like the part with the jelly beans though.
ReplyDeleteI found this story to be scary because I could invision a day that could be like this even though it is exagerated. I find it to be true because today I feel like we are run by time. A example is at school a bell rings and we go to the next class and if we are a second late you get punnished. This sounds a lot like the story and how if they are late to anything they are punished.
ReplyDeleteI think that the scene with the jelly beans was really interesting. I was able to imagine what it was like.
ReplyDelete"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman was a very strange world. I would hate things to be like that but I do feel that I will become because of all the schedules that our life has.
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