{"id":365,"date":"2009-09-26T00:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T04:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-09-26T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T04:35:40","slug":"kipling-and-gender-in-lucifers-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"Lucifer’s Hammer – Kipling and some final words on gender\/tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t remember if we discussed this in class or not, but there are numerous references to Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book, Kim<\/em>, etc.\u00a0in this book.\u00a0 Harvey’s dog, who dies after Hammerfall, is named Kipling: “Kipling greeted him tail-thumping joy, and he rubbed the German Shepherd’s ears absently as he opened the drapes” (16).\u00a0 Kipling the dog is mentioned again as Harvey is thinking of his family:\u00a0“It wouldn’t be long before he had to go home to dinner, and\u00a0Loretta,\u00a0 and Andy,\u00a0and Kipling…” (32).\u00a0\u00a0Another reference is made to the dog on pg. 166.\u00a0\u00a0Kipling the dog’s\u00a0dead\u00a0body is described on pg. 266.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The chapter called “Sanctuary”\u00a0in which Marie, Harvey,\u00a0and Mark and Joanna are together, starts\u00a0with a\u00a0Kipling saying: “God gave all\u00a0men all earth\u00a0to love, but since man’s heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove, beloved overall – Rudyard Kipling” (365).\u00a0 On page 396, Al\u00a0Hardy is shown guarding the entrance\u00a0into Senator Jellison’s community.\u00a0 When a man threatens\u00a0Al with his gun to take him inside, Al raises his\u00a0right arm as a signal for help, resulting in the man getting shot.\u00a0 Afterwards, Al\u00a0states that the man should have read\u00a0his Kipling, implying that the whole hand signal idea came from Kipling’s work: “And the shot went through the city councilman’s head, neat and clean, because of course the signal was Al raising his right hand.\u00a0 Pity the councilman had never read his Kipling” (396).\u00a0<\/p>\n

On page 509, Mark uses a hand signal when Dan Forrester arrives, and Forrester immediately recognizes that the signal is from Kipling’s work:\u00a0 “Dan Forrester watched with interest.\u00a0 He’d read his Kipling.\u00a0 He wondered if Hugo Beck had” (509).<\/p>\n

In terms of our discussion of\u00a0technology in class,\u00a0I thought about how we were talking about technology being the ultimate savior of civilization with Forrester’s weapons who saved the community from the cannibals. Also,\u00a0 the powerplant and the “lightning” that would prevent humans from having their kids compete with each other to see who catches the most rats, etc.\u00a0 The fact that the comet was discovered because of the telescope is also significant.\u00a0 One thought I had about gender in regards to technology was that by making pretty much all the females go back to domestic labor, and creating the same gender roles that were around before technology, the authors illuminate the results on gender roles due to lack of technology, since everything once again has to be done by hand, and women are the ones that have to do the majority at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t remember if we discussed this in class or not, but there are numerous references to Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book, Kim, etc.\u00a0in this book.\u00a0 Harvey’s dog, who dies after Hammerfall, is named Kipling: “Kipling greeted him tail-thumping joy, and he rubbed the German Shepherd’s ears absently as he opened the… Continue reading Lucifer’s Hammer – Kipling and some final words on gender\/tech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}