Song in a Minor Key

Blog 9
Week of 10/28/19

      For this week's topic on Space Opera and the New Frontier, I chose the short story, Song in a Minor Key, by C.L Moore. The story takes place on a clover-filled hill as the main setting. Northwest Smith, the protagonist, reflects on how at peace he is in that moment. After years of transgressions and being banned from taking a step on Earth, Northwest was able to come back home. On the hill he soaks in all he's missed out on and taken for granted. 

         Northwest realizes in that moment, as he is laying in the grass on the hill, all the small things he's missed out on. When I was reading the part about how he missed the feeling of the grass I found this to be a very insightful scene in the story. It got me thinking, even though it seems silly to miss such a trivial topic like grass, we as humans take stuff like this for granted. The little things in life like this that don't seem that important until we least expect it. This is happening right now with people not altering their life to fix the effects they are creating on the global warming crisis. Sadly, we as humans don't do anything about problems until it's too late.

Another scene I came across while reading that I found quite of an impact was Northwest reviewing all the sorrowful events in his life. Even though he has a lot of unhappy memories he knows he would never go back and change the past. The bad things that Northwest did lead him to his ultimate punishment, being banish from his home. But,without this punishment he never would have learned a valuable lesson. Which is never regret your actions because these are the moments in life that change us for the better. I agree with this statement made by Northwest because even though we all experience horrible things, it guides us to the individual were meant to become.