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A 5 page book review that focuses on a specific aspect of thematic content. Ruth Ozeki's novel All Over Creation offers a complex web of thematic tension, with relationships and plot twists pivoting around the issue of knowledge/ignorance and how this informs the lives of the book's characters. This thematic tension works on multiple levels of meaning in the novel. For example, readers are initially caught between knowledge and ignorance concerning the circumstances of the characters' lives, but then are informed of past events in flashbacks and the text of old letters. Characters also acquire knowledge as the novel progresses, Cass learns of Yummy's whereabouts; Yummy learns what it means to be both a better daughter and mother; and the reader learns the inherent danger in an ecological problem. Other examples abound as it can be argued that this thematic tension informs the structure of the novel's narrative. No additional sources cited.
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informs the lives of the books characters. This thematic tension works on multiple levels of meaning in the novel. For example, readers are initially caught between knowledge and ignorance concerning
the circumstances of the characters lives, but then are informed of past events in flashbacks and the text of old letters. Characters also acquire knowledge as the novel progresses, Cass
learns of Yummys whereabouts; Yummy learns what it means to be both a better daughter and mother; and the reader learns the inherent danger in an ecological problem. Other examples
abound as it can be argued that this thematic tension informs the structure of the novels narrative. This point is particularly true for the issue of genetically engineered plants
and the dangers that they may portend for the natural world and humanity. The reader becomes informed on this issue as the characters are made aware of the issue through
diatribes delivered by members of an anarchist ecological activists who call themselves the Seeds of Resistance. Ozeki presents diametric opposites, the "good seeds," such as the ones grown for the
Fullers seed catalog, and the "bad seeds," which are the lethal "Terminator" seeds developed by the Cynaco Corporation. The "Terminator" seeds are genetically designed not to reproduce. An ecological activist
named "Geek" explains, "Its like a death gene, sir. A self-destruct mechanism. They splice it into the DNA of a plant and trigger it. The plan kills its own embryo"
(Ozeki 266). Geek goes on to explain that this means that this is done to protect the "corporations intellectual property rights" and also to "keep farmers from saving and
replanting seeds" (Ozeki 266). This theme provides a general structure that informs and guides the last half of the novel. The first half is more concerned with issues of knowledge/ignorance
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