When reading Om On Ra by Victor Pelevin, I new once thought that the usage of grotesque was unnecessary. This book allowed the reader to see the life of a soviet cosmonaut and how real the term, “The race for space” was for the USSR. During this time, the United States of America and the USSR were competing on who could get to the moon first. These two countries didn 't want to just leave their mark on the world after WW2; they had bigger dreams for their countries. Pelevin does not just debunk the Soviets for going to the moon; he calls them out for falsifying ever making it to the moon. He allows the reader to understand that the USSR were doing anything and everything to make their people believe they were actually making it to the moon
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Not even after he finds out that his best friend wasn 't going to be apart of the mission anymore. To me, that was one of the hardest parts to read knowing they were going to kill his best friend. When the Flight Commander made him listen to the tape and analyze who was talking and taking notes down. When Omon tells us, “ I turned off the tape recorder and felt terribly afraid.” I felt that Omon didn 't know how to react to the click at the end of the tape. I think that was one of the only times he was truly beside himself. But to my surprise, he didn 't show how he felt to the colonel or anyone else. Without hesitation, he continued with the rest of his team and watched how the others acted like nothing had happened. Even though Omon acted like everything was okay, I cannot help but feel sadness for him. Pelevin builds these two characters up during the whole book, and we get to connect to their unique friendship just to watch as one of them is gone in a blink of a …show more content…
Omon does his best to comfort the men in their last hours on the rocket to the moon. But no matter how great of a comrade Omon is, the fact that the entire mission to the moon is nothing but a glorified illusion, still pulls at my connection to the book. When Omon finally realizes that the façade of Soviet Heroism is nothing but a TV program and a couple of civilians behind the scene, he recalls what one of his teachers told him. He clarifies, “ The idea is that even if the fact that the Soviet Union is a champion of peaceful space exploration holds true only inside a person’s head, this is not much different from it being the reality.” Omon finally realizes that it is not the heroic deeds the comrades do to show patriotism, but the idea behind it. The meaning of sacrificing oneself for the bigger picture, even if they say killing yourself will lead to your immorality, like they did with Omon.
Pelevin’s book Om On Ra, shows the reader that not everything you see and hear is true. That there are illusions behind every glorified situation, no matter if it’s on an individual level or national level. He was able to show us how inferior the Russians really were when it came to space exploration and what red lines they were willing to cross to prove to the world how great they really were. He was trying to unfold
Not even after he finds out that his best friend wasn 't going to be apart of the mission anymore. To me, that was one of the hardest parts to read knowing they were going to kill his best friend. When the Flight Commander made him listen to the tape and analyze who was talking and taking notes down. When Omon tells us, “ I turned off the tape recorder and felt terribly afraid.” I felt that Omon didn 't know how to react to the click at the end of the tape. I think that was one of the only times he was truly beside himself. But to my surprise, he didn 't show how he felt to the colonel or anyone else. Without hesitation, he continued with the rest of his team and watched how the others acted like nothing had happened. Even though Omon acted like everything was okay, I cannot help but feel sadness for him. Pelevin builds these two characters up during the whole book, and we get to connect to their unique friendship just to watch as one of them is gone in a blink of a …show more content…
Omon does his best to comfort the men in their last hours on the rocket to the moon. But no matter how great of a comrade Omon is, the fact that the entire mission to the moon is nothing but a glorified illusion, still pulls at my connection to the book. When Omon finally realizes that the façade of Soviet Heroism is nothing but a TV program and a couple of civilians behind the scene, he recalls what one of his teachers told him. He clarifies, “ The idea is that even if the fact that the Soviet Union is a champion of peaceful space exploration holds true only inside a person’s head, this is not much different from it being the reality.” Omon finally realizes that it is not the heroic deeds the comrades do to show patriotism, but the idea behind it. The meaning of sacrificing oneself for the bigger picture, even if they say killing yourself will lead to your immorality, like they did with Omon.
Pelevin’s book Om On Ra, shows the reader that not everything you see and hear is true. That there are illusions behind every glorified situation, no matter if it’s on an individual level or national level. He was able to show us how inferior the Russians really were when it came to space exploration and what red lines they were willing to cross to prove to the world how great they really were. He was trying to unfold