Onyx and crake.pptx book by Margaret Applewood

A brief summary without spoilers of the book

1. Oryx and Crake

2. Summary Set in a future devastated by a man-made plague Snowman, possibly the last human, lives among the genetically engineered Crakers Flashbacks reveal Snowman was once Jimmy Jimmy’s friend Crake, a brilliant scientist, created both the Crakers and the deadly plague Crake manipulated Oryx, a woman both he and Jimmy loved Crake unleashed the plague, killing billions of people Jimmy was filled with anger after the outbreak He now cares for the innocent Crakers in a drastically changed world

3. Who: Real name is Glenn, known as Crake, is a brilliant scientist and Jimmy’s closest friend What: Crake is a genius but morally detached scientist who plans to replace humanity with the Crakers, a genetically engineered species How: He accomplishes this by creating a deadly plague disguised as a health supplement, which wipes out most of the human population I Am Crake Quote: "I thought you were working on immortality." "Immortality," said Crake , "is a concept. If you take "mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then "immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be ..." "Sounds like Applied Rhetoric 101," said Jimmy.

4. Jimmy Snowman He knew he was faltering, trying to keep his footing. Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he was sliding around like an eyeball on a plate. An eyeball that could still see, however. That was the trouble. Strange to think of the endless labour, the digging, the hammering, the carving, the lifting, the drilling, day by day, year by year, century by century; and now the endless crumbling that must be going on everywhere. Sandcastles in the wind

5. I am the Crakers Quote: “‘Oh Snowman, what have we found?’ They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean.” Who: • “People” (genetically modified human beings) • See Crake and Oryx as gods • See Snowman as their messenger What: • Genetically modified humans • Designed not to feel jealousy, anger, or love like regular humans • Don’t wear clothes • Eat only plants • Created to replace humans after most of the world is wiped out