Blood Child
1) What is your reaction to the piece?
I've read this piece before in a different class. My reaction to it then was more or less disgust. After discussing it in class, I understood what all the elements were in the story but the process of being an N'Tlic was still horrifying. Having to become a host to parasitic larva, for a species that's basically enslaved humanity. It's a surreal piece, about what would happen if humans weren't the dominating race. What I liked about this story was that every human character had a different reaction to the process of being chosen. Han wanted to be chosen, the mother wanted nothing to do with it, Qui was completely against it, and Gan had slight resentment to it but still accepted being impregnated.
2) What connections did you make with the story that you read?
The theme of this story is childbirth--but with an alien twist. It explores childbirth, and what possibilities there are if men had to be the child-bearers. In this, women must bear their own children, so men had to be the host. I believe one of the connections is child-bearing through slavery. How, when colonist came to American, they'd impregnate the natives. But this story combines the idea that childbirth and parasites are closely related, at least in the way that in childbirth, the child does feed up your body.
Other connections I made was that the eggs that the family would eat were similar to hallucinogens and that when you ate them, it's like getting high. It relaxes their bodies and suggests that it keeps humans youthful.
3) What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
I'd adapt this into a short film. If there were changes I'd have to make, it would probably combine the characters of Han and Qui. Maybe this would be a way to show that as a character, they wanted to be chosen but after T'Gatoi chose Gan, they were upset and began to resent T'Gatoi and then learned the truth about the process.
I've read this piece before in a different class. My reaction to it then was more or less disgust. After discussing it in class, I understood what all the elements were in the story but the process of being an N'Tlic was still horrifying. Having to become a host to parasitic larva, for a species that's basically enslaved humanity. It's a surreal piece, about what would happen if humans weren't the dominating race. What I liked about this story was that every human character had a different reaction to the process of being chosen. Han wanted to be chosen, the mother wanted nothing to do with it, Qui was completely against it, and Gan had slight resentment to it but still accepted being impregnated.
2) What connections did you make with the story that you read?
The theme of this story is childbirth--but with an alien twist. It explores childbirth, and what possibilities there are if men had to be the child-bearers. In this, women must bear their own children, so men had to be the host. I believe one of the connections is child-bearing through slavery. How, when colonist came to American, they'd impregnate the natives. But this story combines the idea that childbirth and parasites are closely related, at least in the way that in childbirth, the child does feed up your body.
Other connections I made was that the eggs that the family would eat were similar to hallucinogens and that when you ate them, it's like getting high. It relaxes their bodies and suggests that it keeps humans youthful.
3) What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
I'd adapt this into a short film. If there were changes I'd have to make, it would probably combine the characters of Han and Qui. Maybe this would be a way to show that as a character, they wanted to be chosen but after T'Gatoi chose Gan, they were upset and began to resent T'Gatoi and then learned the truth about the process.
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