the immortals

I think that although the man in "The Immortals" is quite different from an actual human... because he has the ability to live forever...that he does say alot about human nature. As the previous post said, all of us mortal or immortal want to be wanted, loved, needed and not end up being alone. Although the man was very much immortal he did possess these human qualities many times throughout the story. I also think if people did go on living forever that they would be VERY lonley. While reading the previous blog and the story, it made me think of the saying "every end is the start of a new beginning". Even though death is something that is feared by many, it is the ending of a life here on earth but for those of us who believe in the after life- a start of different but new type of life somewhere else. "I swear, the entire planet seemed to be staging some kind of stupidity contest". This quote, I think was one of the best sayings throughout the story because again- I think it says alot about humans. It seems as though no matter how stupid something is, if one person does it then alot of others follow suit and do the same thing. This is where the term trends come from! The characters reference to global warming," at first around here we were pleased that the world started getting warmer... but then it went to far in the other direction, it just kept on getting hotter- or rather there was a change in the nature of heat"p.27 I also thought was clever because it is something that is a huge issue for us today. Overall, I found the story to be very depressing. The author created a character who was very sad and lonley. As previously mentioned- I dont think that people should have to live forever because forever is such a very long time- but the Immortal spend a good portion of the story describing how he came up with ways to end his own life. There are just way to many people out there who would give anything to live just one more day, and he was finding ways to end his. I found it morbid that he was wishing away something that is so precious to so many people.