Blog Post 4

For my last blog post about Gilda I decided to talk about the ending of the novel and the last 2 chapters. I felt it was very interesting how Gilda found different ways to express or life and story in unique and creative ways. For example the songwriting and the writing romance novels. This I thought was a very clever way in which Gilda can remind hidden but still be able to get a message across and tell her stories to a mass audience. I think she needed to spread this message across to people because just writing in the journal wasn't good enough for her. She needed to be social and tell her story to other people it was always in her nature to be social and have relationships.
The next thing i want to talk about is what I thought about the ending of the novel. I thought the ending of the novel was very strange. Especially the talk about humans leaving the planet and the planet itself decaying. Especially with the last two chapters it was only a 30 year span and the planet had been ruined so much and everything changed to fast. But what was kind of interesting was how the author was right about the future in some aspects. Like how people didn't read as much anymore, and things like the video conferencing, and how the paparazzi is with celebrities and how important that is to people. But also how the author was wrong about things like the New York Time dying off, and the planet dying so quickly. But overall I did enjoy the novel and how it was different then a lot of vampire stories, and the themes like family and love that it portrayed throughout the novel.

Kenny Liszewski Blog Post 4