Form Of Prayers In Oryx And Crake By Billy Graham

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Literature and Form of Prayers

“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God” – Billy Graham. Prayers causes me to feel a sense of relief. It is the main relaxation method for all who believe in god. Just like prayers, literature also gives me this feeling of relief and relaxation. By engaging in a storyline that I enjoy reading until the end. Literature makes me think about what happened in the storyline and prayers make me think about if my prayers will be answered. To what extent is the reading of literature like a form of prayer? For example, while reading Oryx and Crake the ending of the story, I had many unanswered questions about the storyline. Snowman found a bunch of survivors at the end but we don’t know what he
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By praying, followers are able to realize gifts they can be thankful; gifts in which they often take for granted. Examples include the gift of life, the gift of families and friends, and the gift of food, clothing, and shelter. In contrast, readers often witness characters in literature dealing with unique challenges that cause them, as readers, to reflect on their own lives, in comparison to the less fortunate ones in literature. They start to realize the horrible events they are blessed to not have to struggle with. “He was in the penultimate stage of the disease; the sweat of blood was on his forehead” (Margaret Atwood, 352). In Oryx and Crake, the disease plays a series of roles in the novel. Its main presence makes it one of the most important themes of the novel. For example, disease is a marker of class through the separation of urban areas. Those who have comfortable jobs with the major pharmaceutical companies live in disease-free, highly guarded compounds. Those who are not affiliated with such companies live in the disease-infested pleeblands. It is also used as a sign of extinction and destruction of all humans, except those that have taken injections to prevent being wiped out by the disease. Jimmy did not realize all that he had until it was gone. After Crake killed almost all humans and killed Jimmy’s only love, he finally realizes what has happened and what he has

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