Oryx And Crake Relationships

Oryx and Crake
By Margaret Atwood
Journal #1

In chapters 1 to 8 of the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, there is the presence of a human relationship. The human relationships that were present in chapters 1 to 8 are about family, friends and sexual relationships. In chapters 1 to 3 of the book the main character Jimmy also called as Snowman, his father works in an OrganInc Farm and HelthWyzer as a scientist, which his job is to provide human organs for transplantation, and through this they use an animal like pigs to customized the genetic makeup of an individual who is in need of a replacement of an organ. The animal that has the genetically human organ was called ‘pigoons’. Jimmy’s mother was once a scientist who worked in the OrganInc

Mothers like to spend more of their time for their children because they want to see their children grow by their side and teach them lessons. In the novel, Jimmy’s mother was a housewife who prepares food for her family, cleans the house and provides care for her son and husband. As the chapter goes by, the family of Jimmy was broken in which his mom left suddenly. Jimmy’s mother left because of the argument that she had with his father. The argument that his parents had was the job of his father in which the another reason why Jimmy’s mother quit her job was because the company where she once worked and where Jimmy’s father is working which is the OrganInc Farm and the HelthWyzer, she knew that the company were introducing diseases or sickness into the society in order to profit from their cures which are transplanting human organs. Jimmy’s mother argued with his father because she does not want her husband’s work which is immoral because they are spreading disease while Jimmy’s father does not want to leave his job and so Jimmy’s mother left. Even though the mother of Jimmy left, she left a

Jimmy met a friend named Glen who was called in the book as Crake. Before the disappearance of Jimmy’s mother he met Crake who did not react much on the disappearance of Jimmy’s mother which he just said that “Some people needed to change”. Jimmy and Crake met in the school which Crake was a new student in their school and the teacher asked Jimmy to be with Crake to tour the school and time goes by Jimmy and Crake became friends because Jimmy found that Crake’s sense of humor is appealing. As time goes by Jimmy and Crake always hangs out at lunch and during weekends. Jimmy and Crake started playing video games during their past time, also they would surf the internet together and watch movies. There are times that Crake hacks his uncle Pete’s private code to gain access to websites that are not for young people, and Crake also knew where his uncle Pete hides his skunkweeds. When Crake and Jimmy smoke the weeds that they stole they will use Uncle Pete’s code to access sites where they can watch porn and executions. Then when Jimmy goes home, his father and the live-in partner of his father do not realize that something is wrong with Jimmy. In connection to our society, I believe that some group of friends has also something that they are hiding just like Jimmy and Crake which they smoke weeds, and watch unforbidden movies. I believe that some of these people must be the ones who also