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Stranger in a Strange Land - Coggle Diagram
Stranger in a Strange Land
Religion
Religion is like a double edge sword
Author was agnostic
Jubal was also agnostic
could be projecting himself as jubal
Mike couldn't really grasp the idea of religion in the beginning
pg 335 patty starts the "you are god" "i am god" kinda stuff
Mike's cult
Cult
Died for his belief
Believed that anyone who groks is god pg 487
Archangel Michael
He made it to heaven
characters
Ben
Smart also
Reporters
Wants to marry Jill
Disappeared early in the book
Jubal
Smart
Doctor/Lawyers
Lived with a lot of women/kinda over sexualizes them
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Curious
Jill
nurse
takes care of mike
"kidnaps" Mike
Thinks he's like a child
Kisses him
Believes he is the perfect man in at least his purity
MIke
Can make things levitate and float
Water Brothers
Grokking
Absolute Trust
Naivety
Grok
The naivety and innocence of Mike
The intelligence of Ben
What happened when Ben was gone?
Mike is like a newborn
The importance of the word "grok"
what does it mean?
To empathize/understand
Can humanity truly grok something
Mars
Old ones
Absolute trust
what water means in the book
Water = grokking? connection
Pg. 218
When the humans finally ask what grokking means.
Sharing water makes you water brothers
Water is important since it is scare on Mars
Holiness with water
DIvine beings
Martians have superpowers
Mike has powers
Martians are taught to not use/abuse their powers
humans ability to learn powers
Cannibalism
Isn't considered bad, actually respectful
Earth
Selfishness of Humans
Would abuse the power
No absolute trust
It's connection with religion
Scenes
the escape of mike
Meeting jubal
Mike's death
He died when he came out of his church in front of an angry crowd
Ending chapter is mike who is in heaven.
Kinda up to the reader how the ending is
Humans reaction to mike
the creation of the church pg 328
Themes
selflessness
Nature vs nurture
Innocence/naivety
Dog eat dog world