Facebook antetype9/4/2023 I think he never really became bad (like his father), but he did choose the wrong side.įor Noah the decision was made easy by things that happened without him being able to do anything about them. He is truly a good guy, but too weak to oppose what he feels is wrong with this society, so he finally gives in. Learning more about Declan in Antitype, I do sympathize with him. He is the typical product of his patriarchal society, whereas Noah is the person who will eventually help Emma shatter this society to the ground (and I’m not giving here any spoilers, but if you’ve read even one dystopian book, you do know the formula they all adhere to). Of course, I bet we are all team Noah in Archetype, but learning about Declan and why he’s made the choices that determined who he will be in Archetype, made us be more understanding towards him. It is here that Noah makes the decision to join the resistance, and Declan to finally step in his father’s shoes following a grave mistake that his father helps cover up (why does Declan remind me somehow of Daniel in the TV series Revenge?). What I liked about this novella is that both are in fact good guys, although their decisions will put them on the other side of the fence. As Archetype is told from Emma’s perspective, Antitype focuses on Declan and Noah – each chapter being told from one or the other’s point of view. Of course with any dystopian novel there is that one who rebels and changes the course of the future.Īntitype is set just a few months earlier, when Declan and Noah are still young enough, at a point where their next decisions will shape their future. Needless to say, by the time I finished my breakfast, I also finished the short, but very rewarding, novella.Īrchetype is set in a dystopian world where fertility is a major problem, and where women are sold to become wives to buyers, without them having any say in the matter. Having liked the first book quite a lot, my next read was instantly decided, so this morning while having my breakfast, I picked up Antitype and started reading. Waters, I remembered that I also have the prequel and the second book in the series. In noun compounds where it has the sense of "opposed to, opposite" ( Antichrist, anti-communist) the accent remains on the anti- in adjectives where it retains its old prepositional sense "against, opposed to," the accent remains on the other element ( anti-Christian, anti-slavery).Having just published yesterday my list of favorite books read in 2014, which also included Archetype by M.D. In a few English words ( anticipate, antique) it represents Latin ante. It appears in some words in Middle English but was not commonly used in English word formations until modern times. A common compounding element in Greek, in some combinations it became anth- for euphonic reasons. It is cognate with Sanskrit anti "over, against," and Old English and- (the first element in answer). Word-forming element of Greek origin meaning "against, opposed to, opposite of, instead," shortened to ant- before vowels and -h-, from Old French anti- and directly from Latin anti-, from Greek anti (prep.) "over, against, opposite instead, in the place of as good as at the price of for the sake of compared with in opposition to in return counter-," from PIE *anti "against," also "in front of, before" (from root *ant- "front, forehead," with derivatives meaning "in front of, before"), which became anti- in Italian (hence antipasto) and French.
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