The Lathe In Heaven Blog Post #2
By: Matthew Evans I have gotten much further into the book since my last blog post. From where I left off, many important things happened. The lawyer attends the meeting and watches as Dr. Haber hypnotizes Orr into falling asleep. He asks for him to dream about his concern with overpopulation which triggers Orr into dreaming about a world where over 6 billion people are erased from existence. Both the lawyer and Dr. Haber witnessed the change and still contain the double memories, but neither speak up to reassure Orr. Later that day, Miss Lelache calls Orr to schedule a time where they can meet. Her and Orr come to a date and both agree to meet then for lunch. The next day, Orr returns for another session, this time without the lawyer. While he is very reluctant to go, he ends up going. The news at the time was the countless deaths from mass killings in Africa and the war being fought. After hypnotized, Dr. Haber tells Orr to dream about a world at peace. This is altered by Orr however since he cannot dream of a world with complete peace. So instead, he dreams that Aliens take over the moon. Once again, this becomes true and just like that, the entire world is at risk again. After this session, Orr is overcome with anger and depression and makes a very risky decision. He packs up and leaves for his cabin in the woods that he had dreamt of. After Orr fails to meet up with Miss Lelache, she decides to look for him herself. After a while of searching, she comes to the conclusion that he might be in that cabin he had told her about. She heads there and finally gets the chance to meet up with him. When she sees him, he hasn't slept for days and looks like he could collapse at any moment. After talking for a bit, she finds out that Orr is purposefully keeping himself from dreaming. They both agree he shouldn't go on like this so she suggests that she will put him through hypnosis to dream that Dr. Haber is a good man. That's all I've read to at this point. This book in a way is similar to the movie, "Independence Day." In the movie, aliens start to invade Earth as the world is starting to slowly fall apart. In this case, Orr's dreams and brings aliens into existence which threaten all life on Earth. The world also starts to fall apart knowing the moon is being occupied by deadly forces. It's a loose connection, but it's one that stood out to me. I would compare George Orr to Dr. Strange the marvel superhero. The reason is that both of them can manipulate reality in a unique way. Orr uses his dreams while Dr. Strange uses magic to alter what we all know. The difference is that Dr. Strange's alterations are not permanent while Orr's can change the course of the entire world. I will comment on Maddi P and Leslie's Blog Posts.
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Madison Perales
6/11/2018 11:00:45 pm
I like the connection you made from this book to Independence Day ( great movie by the way). When reading the part about the aliens I would have never thought to connect it to that movie. Here is my question for, do you think that George will try to dream that everything was the way it was before his dreams became reality? Or do you think he will lead to psychoticness?
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Michael Quinn
6/12/2018 03:31:47 pm
I agree with the connections you made because both include aliens get involved into life and the alterations of reality which is controlled by the user. How else do you think these can be connected and why?
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Angeli
6/12/2018 04:03:40 pm
You are making great analysis on the book comparing it to the movie "Independence Day." Do you think that Ms. Lelache's hypnotism will work on Orr? If it does will it have a negative outcome, just like every other dream?
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