WWW:WAKE

As I began every chapter, I was lost in what Sawyer meant by going back to awareness. In the first chapter, the introduction made sense in that he wanted to give the reader an idea of what is to come. In the second chapter, he describes about awareness and also creates a sense of being, as if something is becoming aware. Not to be a plot spoiler or anything, but this is his intention. Sawyer uses the beginnings of chapters to progress a being through its stages of awareness. This being is affected by events that occur in the book, such as China's Great Firewall. This particular event affected the being directly because it somehow split it apart. Sawyer also confuses me when he describes how apes could communicate through computers by their sign language. One particular ape, Hobo, loves to paint and paints a picture of one of his caretakers from memory. Hobo relates to the entity in that they both can develop inteligence and understanding of complex ideas. Other than that relationship, Hobo confused me throughout the book because of the few brief times he is mentioned through sub stories, and how unclearly Hobo is related to the main story of the book.