3rd Post of my First Book

Here is my third post on the Day of the Triffids... Today I'll talk about the theme of the book...

The main theme of this book is that people should be aware of their government and that humans can not use power properly when given to them. First of all, the reason why I said that the part of the theme is that people should be aware of their government because in the book, Mason, the main character of the book, says that the government was the one who used orbiting satellites to emit a light which blinds all people who sees it. If this was true, then the government was the one who was behind the death of millions of people as well as the loss of the position as the highest predator in the food chain.
As the for the reason for the second part of the theme, people just cannot handle power efficently is because the three major groups/parties that the main character's group meets in the book all end up becoming in ruins while the main character's group place was ruined because of one of the main parties that comes to take over the place. Thus this all comes down to the single fact that people just did not have the leadership to use the power that was given to them efficently.
Therefore this concludes my overview of the theme.

2nd Post on My First Book

So I finished my book The Day of Triffids, and here is my second post :). On the paper, it says I can write just a free topic so I shall. Here are my thoughts on this book: it is unoriginal, its and the theme is excessively straightforward. Compared to other dystopian books such as 1984 or The Brave New World, The Day of Triffids seems childish and meaningless while the ending was not satisfying at all. This may be an exaggeration but this was one of the worst books I have every read. It may because this book was written in 1951, but seriously, plants taking over the world is not to my taste. The characters in the book make meaningless decisions while their foresight is shallow. The small "societies" that are created in the book are headed to failure and it is obvious to see why. When the main character finally create a safe environment to live, some other people from other societies who believe that this environment will not last and ends up destroying it. Because that happens the main character never really gets into serious problems which makes the whole story dry and predictable.

First Post On My First Book

Okay, so I'm currently reading The Day of Triffids by John Wyndnam. The beginning literally bored me to death but it's getting better... Well anyways, the main character of this novel is Bill Masen (he also the narrator of the story) and this novel is written in first person to his point of view. However, I did not like the main character being so incapable in the beginning. For example, in the book, most people suddenly becomes blind and the main character (with his advantage of being able to see) does not know what to do, whether to help them, leave them, or put them out of their misery. Sure the situation being so sudden could have thrown his normal train of thought on the wrong track, but after people start suciding, becoming barbaric, or just plain greedy/crazy for about 5 chapters you would think he gets the point -_-;;. Even though the main character is quite incapable on his own, he remains as one of the few people who sees the triffids (stinging, venomous, walking plants <.<) as a threat which later keeps him alive. In addition to his sight and once in a while logical thinking, this triffids with stings = threat idea is basically what makes him special in this story. As for revealing the universal human experience, he shows how people rely so much on company and learn from other people's point of views to develop their own.

(For Eric who wants to know how my book is dystopian novel: The definition of dystopian is, "a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding." (according to dictionary.com) thus since people are getting practically owned and oppresed by killer plants i think that goes under human misery and oppression.)