I think
although the book is very short and the story kind of simple, this book is full
of philosophy, and powerful messages and social critic.
First of
all is a critic to capitalism, Mr. Bedford represents that, he as the typical
guy that is only thinking in money, for him it doesn’t matter the way he
achieve his personals goals, by the moment he discovered the gold in the moon
he was only thinking the way to get profit about it, no matter what happened to
the Selenites.
By the
other hand, both Mr Carvor and the Selenites are the
representation of Socialism. Mr. Carvor is a scientist that is always looking
for knowledge, he don’t want to give knowledge to humans he is only thinking in
the knowledge for himself. Selenites are on the surface this perfect utopian
society ruled by one wise authority (the Grand Luna), even though this looks
perfect it is certainly not like this in fact they are not free because they
are controlled by the Grand Lunar, if a selenite is doing a specific job he
will only know about it, and he will not do anything else.
“ I told
them an ironclad could fire a shot of ton twelve miles, and go through twenty
feet of iron- and how we could steer torpedoes under water. I went to describe a Maxim gun in action. The
Grand Lunar was so incredulous that he interrupted me several times…”
Page (199)
This quote
happens in the very end of the book when Mr. Cavor is talking with the Grand
Lunar he can’t understand war, and this is also why Mr. Cavor tries to explain
how we humans are. This is one of the
most interesting parts of the book.
At the end I can say I enjoyed reading this
book, is not the best one I have read but I really recommend it, it have some
funny moments and also some social criticism, on top of that is a short book
that you can read in a couple of days.
Vocabulary:
Railways;
the road of the train.
I felt in
the railways, I thought I would die, because the train was very close.
Bluish;
something that is color blue.
I like the
bluish in the color grading of Man of steel.
Hoisting; to
raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance.
Dazzling; that blinds.
I hate the
dazzling light of the police cars.
Beam; light
ray
The room
was really dark except of a beam of light that was getting inside trough the
window.
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