Week 9 blog post

Lin writes about people as hamsters because it takes personal feelings out the work and allows humans to separate themselves from the story. This tactic is similar to the mermaid poems we read earlier this year because the author used mermaids to reflect human problems back to the reader. I think that both authors do this because the separation they create between the reader and their problems allows the reader to come to new conclusions about their situation. This writing style helps people solve their problems more easily because they are not consciously thinking of themselves within the story about hamsters and mermaids, but when the problems facing those creatures pertains to them, the readers are able to solve the issues logically. Lin also uses hamsters because they show how unimportant some of our human interactions are with one another. These two friends spend their time talking about stupid, trivial things, like Bruce Lee, and fail to discuss the real depression and insecurities they face alone.