Immediately this book made me think of FernGully and Avatar. I'm sure that these same thoughts ran across everyone's mind just reading the first chapter of Ursula Le Guin's, The Word for World is Forest. What I really enjoy about this book is the fact that it deals with issues that still remain current, and the message itself will never get old; because it has been told so many time through movies, books, activists, and other means of media.
The first thing that drew my interest in this book was the fact that it's loosely based off a bigger universe and a planet called Hain. It immediately interests me to read all of her stories that are involved in her fictional universe. I enjoyed the read, however, it isn't something I'd care too much to read again. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest brings up important issues regarding colonization, huge environmental concerns, racism, power and the conscious/subconscious. And something that I seem to notice is our ever-growing curiosity with our conscious/subconscious abilities (lucid dreaming). The appear to always be connected with futuristic-like periods; as if in the near future we will fully understand the other 80% of the brains function while asleep...and how much it's truly capable of. The books really gets me thinking about this common theme in sci-fi fiction writing, and how it pertains to our current understanding of ourselves. Will we figure out our true capabilities as humans? Or are we just as destructive and primitive like the yumens?
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