The Scythe (short story)

"Sickle" is a short story by American writer Lei Bradbury. Originally published in July 1943 as "a strange legend". It was first collected in the dark carnival of Bradbury's anthology and later collected in the story of the village and Ray Bradberry in October.

Fortunately, the poor family inherited a strange sickle saying the house surrounded by the wheat field and "Who is waving me - shaking the world!" Sickle, but he noticed the strangeness about wheat and how it grows. Over time, he began to notice that every wheat represents a human life, and by accepting a house, a field, a sickle he unconsciously accepted the work of the god of death. [1]

"Sickle" is a biblical allegory based on death, the name of the god of death is death. In the story of a fable and Bradbury, this death god can fully control the boundary of life and death. Then the scythe depicts the instantiation of death. In addition, the scythe and the sickles themselves are associated with many death allegories. Symbolically, it has a dual meaning. The first is its cutting function in parallel with starvation to satisfying death. Then the sickle symbolizes the hope of focusing on life and shows the continuity of vitality. This second meaning has found evidence in the story that new cereals magically germinated from ancient grains. This story is one of the earliest attempts by Bradbury to deal with and eliminate human so-called "pill". Remove this fear, we can put our energy into positive effort

In 2016, Neal Shusterman launched the first book of Scythe, his Arc of a Scythe series, dominated by artificial intelligence called Thunderhead, in the future planet. Technology has grown until poverty, crime and even death no longer worry. In order to suppress population growth, an organization called scythedom was established. Members of the organization were respected and worried that they "gather" human responsibility. Scythe, honored by Printz, was trained by two apprentices, Rowan and Citra, in the political turmoil of scythedom. In the second book, Thunderhead, Shusterman directed attention to the powerful AI itself. Because the powerful starving sickle conspiracy can destroy the world order.

In Sais, the two main characters (Rowan and Citra) were recruited to become his apprentice by his wise and empathic Size. They eventually caught up in the heart of Sais' political conflict, and between the old guards who believed their work is a regrettable and compassionate regrettable act and a new order. We deal with death. Thunderhead keeps on this confrontation and can not say that this is not spoilers. This is a garbage part of the sequel to the review. As you can imagine, Thunderhead is more important in this novel and will pay his voice, attention and attention accordingly. This is very interesting and part of my favorite.