I have some questions from the book that I was not able to answer. Even if no one has an answer I think just some feedback would be helpful...Thanks.
- Why would one want to avoid real experience?...
- I think that corresponds with having a fear of something and then I asked myself what is Blue's Dad so afraid of??? and I really have no answer for that one.
- Why did he raise Blue this way?
- Does "Take all the time you need" refer to Blue or to her Dad?
For the question about avoiding real experience...I think that Blue may have read about bad experiences in her books and didn't want to have to feel the same way as the characters did. Reading of other's misfortunes may have made Blue scared of the real world.
ReplyDeleteI think Blue's dad may fear that Blue has the skills to discover some of his past. For instance, Blue's dad may actually have been in the Nightwatchmen, and he may fear that Blue will fear him and have no one to trust anymore, since her mother is deceased. Mr. Van Meer may want Blue just to be safe from the scary parts of the world and make her feel like she lives in a bubble.
I'm not sure about that last question. It may refer to either of them. Blue is taking her time, in a sense, to make sense of Hannah's death. I'm not sure how it would relate to her dad, though...
What if Blue's dad was raising her to eventuallly find out that he was part of the Nightwatchmen? I mean, he did raise her off books and literature. He gave her all the resources to look up everything that pertained to the Nightwatchmen. When he left, he was confident that she would figure it out, and understand why he had to leave. It was the perfect "detective" story based on finding out where her dad went off to. His dad knew at one point, Blue would have to spend a year in one place to get into college. Someone would eventually recognize him and he would have to leave. He just had to make sure Blue had all the necessary skills to find out why.
ReplyDeleteI gotta say, however simple...that first question is incredibly relevant. This book is fairly recent and with the author's second book revolving multimedia it's apparent she has a grip on today's evolving culture. A culture dominated by false realities: 'reality' tv shows, TV in general, a huge movie industry with a formula for the aesthetically pleasing, and pretty much all types of multimedia intend to pull wool over our eyes and divert our view from real-world calamities like recent events in Syria, Libya, N. Korea, Iran.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, every parent 'helicopters' in some way, and this was definitely Blue's Father's method.
In response to the 3rd question, I'd have to say that i believe this statement refers more to the father simply because of his lack of reality (by constantly migrating around the country with a girl who needs stability) and stubborn idealism.