Superposition Book Analysis

1: After reading Superposition, I realized how important family really is. Jacob spends months fighting confusing science, aliens, and court just trying to find his 3 children and wife. Many times in the book he had the chance to give up and forget about his family. In fact many people told him to forget his family. Including his one remaining daughter Alex. “‘Then show it,’ she said. ‘Take me away from here’” (153). Even after Jacob’s only (known) living daughter begs him to take her away Jacob, tells her no and continues to search for his family. The love and determination to get to his family is huge in this book.

2: Many themes are presented throughout this book but one that sticks out to me is that Alex (Jacobs daughter) believes that her father loves her sister Claire more than her. Towards the beginning of the book Jacob is depressed because he thinks his family is dead. Alex snaps him out of his depressed state when she complains that he doesn’t love her and that she hates him. I believe this motivates Jacob to find his family even more and this is the turning point of the book. “‘I hate you,’ she said. ‘You never loved me. It was always Claire, Claire, Claire’” (153). Eventually, Jacob realizes how much alike he is to Alex and he makes an effort to connect with her …show more content…
Not only this but also a book that makes the reader really think about what they are reading. If a reader is skimming a book than it is not good literature. This book did make me think many times. Maybe sometimes not for the right reasons but I questioned quite often. The biggest question I asked was “Is this really true/ Can this really be done”. In this sense I thought this book was good literature. However I didn’t get the feeling where I had to keep reading. This book raised many great questions and made me think but I didn’t need to continue to read the book like a good literature book