Best sci-fi book I have read yet

The SuperNaturalist

" Reads like the Matrix crossed with Oliver Twist" - The Times

"A headlong techno fantasy... Colfer's story rattles along at a tremendous pace"-Guardian

"Colfer's best book yet"-Mail on Sunday

The story is set in a futuristic place on Earth called Satellite City, a place where happily ever after does not exist.

Basically this story is from the point of view of Cosmo Hill. Cosmo Hill is an orphan living in Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Being an orphan there was like being a lab rat trapped in a lab forever with no way out. The orphan there are forced totest out products of all kind even if the eating the product meant death.

In the end Cosmo does escape the orphanage. However, Cosmo realizes that life in Satellite City was just as bad. Sadly, Satellite City is filled high-tech street gangs, SWAT like team of paralegals and worst of all it is infested with four-fingered parasites that are invisible to everyone except Cosmo and three other misfits that call themselves the SuperNaturalist. These parasites suck the life out of you. Is it Cosmo's destiny to destroy the parasite?

What I like about this story is that the twists in the plot are everywhere.

Rating 9/10

An Essay

SHOULD MOTHERS STAY AT HOME AND LOOK AFTER CHILDREN

Should mothers remain at home to take care of children? Personally I agree and diagree to a certain extent with this question as there are both positive and negative effects of the mother staying at home to look after children.

Firstly, I agree that mothers should remain at home to take care of children. My reason for this opinion is that if the women were to go out and work, the family would most likely employ a maid to look after the children. The maid may be caring and love the child but the difference between maternal love and love from a third party is very significant. The child might even grow up feeling neglected and not loved. In addition, the child might grow up and astray as there is nobody at home to monitor him or her. For example, there have been many cases where the child was left alone at home and the child ended up mixing with the wrong company and started smoking or taking drugs. Also, the parents did not know or suspect anything the whole time. Therefore, it is of upmost importance that a parent should stay at home to monitor the child and that parent should be the mother as traditionally, women stay at home while the husband goes out to work.

On the other hand, I also partly disagree that mothers should stay at home to take care of their children. If the women has high qualifications which allow her to get a good, stable, high paying job and if the husband's salary is not as much, it would seem much more practical for the wife to go out and work while the husband stays at home to look after their children. If the mother were to stay at home to look after their children, they might grow up with the mentality that their mother would always be there to help them. The child would then not be able to be independent as he or she would tend to rely on their parents.

In conclusion, I agree and disagree to a certain extent that mothers should not go out and work, but should remain at home to look after their children. Perhaps in the future, bosses can be more flexible on the employes working time, or even let them work from home.

Responsiblity

What is RESPONSIBILITY???

If I were to look up the dictionary for this word, I will get this:

–noun, plural -ties.
1.
the state or fact of being responsible.
2.
an instance of being responsible: The responsibility for this mess is yours!
3.
a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
4.
a person or thing for which one is responsible: A child is a responsibility to its parents.
5.
reliability or dependability, esp. in meeting debts or payments.—Idiom
6.
on one's own responsibility, on one's own initiative or authority: He changed the order on his own responsibility.

Before I talk about responsibilty, let tell you what I saw a few days ago.

At a overhead bridge, I saw two little kids. One was a 5 year old boy, while the other was like a 3-4 years old girl. They were struggling to get down the stairs mainly because they were young and too short to reach the handles of the stairs.My intial thought was that they were so excited to get home that they were way ahead of their parents. However, this was not the the case. "Mummy, mummy wait for me" I heard the little girl said. Only then did I realise that her mother was actually infront of them. She was metres away. She seemed to have heard her child's pleads, but she just ignored it as if she had something more impotant was on her mind. (What could be more important than the safety of her own children.) Not only did the little girl's cry for help not even affect her mother but also, it made her mother walk even quicker...

TO BE CONTINUED