After he came home to the last seccion he was tired, he was tried of William using him. He did not want William to have to power of changing reality because he had him at his mercy. George wanted to not have dreams or to get better about not having effective dreams, but William kept of making him change reality. Once he finally went in for another session he noticed all anyone talked about was the war in the middle east, and how bad it is going. When George finally got to William office they argued about how no one has the right to change reality and mess with the way of things. William on the other hand did not admit to knowing about this reality change but instead injected him and put him to bed. He made him dream about peace, but George dreamed about ending the war but starting a galactic war with aliens. That made them get into a bigger argument, and George walking out.
A similarite I see between our world and the book is war, in the book they are fighting aliens/middle east, and we have troops out fighting in the middle east as well.One of the central themes in the book Lathe of Heaven is power, that is shown with William he thinks he rule the world with all of the power he has but he just puts the world in danger. Then George on the other hand does not want to have power, that just means that it is not enough to have power but knowing how to use it. The book was really good, it had an amazing message. Yes I would highly recommend this book. This book is really cool because it is so much like our world, it's like the future of our world. Only hopefully in the future no one will be able to change reality. This book remind me on how fast our world is changing for better or for worse. I will comment on Leslie's blog and Angeli's blog.
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George went to go see lawyer, because he thinks William is invading his privacy. The lawyer however does not think he has a strong chance of winning because no one would take his word over a doctor's. After talking with her George gives up hope and apologizes for taking her time and starts heading out. However the lawyer notices how honest he seems and tries to help him. George tells the lawyer about he is able to alter reality with his dreams, she does not believe him (at all), but they decided she is going to go in to supervise one of his session but as a inspector. When she goes and sees him being hypnotized she saw that George "solved" overpopulation by dreaming of a plague and killing millions of people. She witnesses for her own eyes yet William tries to cover it up and make it seem like nothing ever happened, even though himself also saw that.
This book kind of reminds of the book "Divergent" this is because in Divergent they evaluate fears and they try to overcome them. In this book William makes George dream about his fear and he ends up having a nightmare about it. While in Divergent Four needs to get over his fears. In the book climate change and overpopulation are a big problem and one of the few that are commonly brought up again and again. If we were to compare that to our United States both of those would still be a very big problem. That both worlds have in common. A difference I noticed is that in our United States cars are allowed in the city but in the book George mentions being tired of having to use public transportation because he can't bring a car through downtown. I will comment on Elisabeth's Blog Hyperlink and Leslie's Blog Hyperlink.
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