Invention of morel...wrap up

Wow! After finishing that book I don't know what the author had running through his head! I feel like he is a creepy stalker and is writing this book about his life and how he sees Louise Brooks everyday. He is reflecting upon the idea that he "sees" his "love" as an image on a screen, yet she doesn't even know he exists. He feels he is so close to her and as if he knows her, but she doesn't even know he exists. Or maybe he is trying to put himself in Morels shoes, and would love to figure out a way to re-live a week with her over and over and over again forever. That is his dream which he would love to try and turn into a reality.


Morel put his faith completely in the tides for this book. The way they were able to keep on living in this memory, is that they were dependent on the tides. The tides do the same cycle over and over again, and I believe they were symbolic to the way that Morel made his machine. Him and these people were going to have to do the same cycle over and over again day after day.


I think what is weird, is that the whole time the main character was paranoid that the entire island and all the people there were a set up. And he was so sure it was the police coming to look for him, and everyone on the island were working to plot against him. Even though the people on the island (who were believed to be people before he found out about this invention) had many many opportunities to capture him and catch him off guard. The main character was still so sure that they were going to keep waiting to come get him.


I believe that this is the main characters way of actually believing that he was worth something. That out there somewhere people were still wanting to get him and would actually spend their time looking for him. Not that he was completely forgotten and alone in this world.


One question that I still have about Morel is that what is he afraid of? Why does he want to stay on this island and not move on ever? Being able to stay with your love (in his case Faustine) for all eternity sounds nice, but if he so strongly believed in love wouldn't he believe that they would "meet again some day"


I finally understand the reason it was called a 'museum', I mentioned it in my last blog and I'm so happy that the book answered the question for me. It talked about how it went more along the lines of the fact that they are all being "preserved" here on this island. There are not any actual artifacts belonging to the museum, the people were considered the museum. And so I never also figured out the bomb shelter ideas too? Or was this just Morels way of keeping his inventions safe, the people who are the images on the island couldn't have possibly known when there would be a bomb threat. They are in the same routine and cycle which they cant break. I'm not sure otherwise what a bomb shelter would do.


What would happen if the island were to get destroyed, half of the island was taken out but the museum with the inventions was still in tact? Would the images be able to 'walk on water' in the exact place the ground was that they walked on years before?


I feel like the author didn't think this book through very well before he wrote it. I'm not a fan of his writing style. I feel like this novel was more and more made up as the author pushed forward in writing it. The novel was interesting though, and it did keep me guessing until the very end. There just wasn't very much action in it for me. It was a lame attempt at a love story. No humor what-so-ever. Just curiosity.


I feel like Morel took advantage of all the people that he was recording. He recorded them at which point there was no going back. He didn't have them sign a waver form at the beginning of his experiment, explaining the procedures and the risks involved like "You are going to go on living forever, and if you don't have a good week that's too bad your stuck with it." I know I would want to know first if I had to re-live a week with the same people who they would be. I wonder if Morel ever got any acknowledgement for his invention. And if people would actually like it in the real world. I can see the protesters already fighting against it. With the point that no one has the decision to make as to when their life should end, and no one should go on living forever. That would be some great controversy. Headline news for sure. Up there with abortion rights, stem cell research, and cloning.



The one thing I still wasnt able to figure out about this book is what time period it was supposed to be set during. If the author was trying to put it into a futuristic perspective, or make it during the time period he lived in. If i were to take a guess, I would believe that this novel was set in a time period ahead of the authors time. I dont think there is even technologie out today that can replicate images of people as well that was described in the book, and im sure that there wont be for another 100 years.

My overall view of the novel is that it was unexpected. Reading this book without having ever heard of it before, it was not what I expected at all. The front cover was completely misleading also. Which again I refer to the phrase "dont judge a book by its front cover" and in this novels case, its back cover either!