Identity+-+Who+Goes+There

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__Brandon, Cassi; Fakari__
 * 4th Block answers go here**
 * A scent that is out of place
 * Something is not right
 * Does not fit in with everything else

McReady: Norris: Steel Younger than McReady Short "Five feet eight, his stocky, powerful build tended to make him seem shorter. His black hair was crisp and hard, like short, steel wires, and his eyes were the gray of fractured steel."
 * Tough
 * Leader
 * Big
 * 6ft 4in
 * Halted beside the table
 * Big jacket on the frame
 * Forgotten myth
 * Looming
 * Older than Norris
 * Blonde hair
 * Tall
 * Bronze

__Angelia, Chris, Edward__ "So go away, go away, I won’t be absorbed I won’t be.” -Blair is hiding his true identity(he’s a monster), but he’s hiding it. Campbell was trying to say things/people aren’t as the really seem to be*

“Imitate it may, but it has to a certain extent, it’s own body chemistry….” -The crew discovers that the copy cannot change it’s inner body. It still has it’s own blood, so they can discover the true identity of the crew and the thing.

__ken(typer), Jordan, Alyssa__**
 * 5th Block answers go here
 * The alien makes it so that the crew really does not know if a person is themselve or a thing.
 * The crew thinks that since they have been so close that they should know who is real or not.
 * Really only the person who is being affected can know if they are real or not.

Blair says this to Connant while he is going crazy......but this is a good question because how would the crew no if Connant was connant and more impotantly how would Connant know if he were himself. McCready trys to give an explanation of how the crew should know that this is really connant.....he says only the real connant can think and act like the real connant, so this is how they should know connant is real this quote is being said by Kinner.He ask mccready how would he know if he were really himself or if he were a monster. He is saying he could already be a monster and may not know he is. McCready tells Kinner that if he were a monster that he would know.
 * __quotes__**
 * "Are you there? Are you Connant?" pg.268
 * "You know that Connant is Connant because he not merely look like Connant.....but he thinks like Connant, moves himself around as connant does." pg.269
 * "........would i know if i was already a monster? would i know if the monster had already got me?"

-The crew’s identity is being taken away by the imitations this creature forms
 * __Rico, Lauren, and Anthony:__**

//“Keep away from me - keep away - I won’t be absorbed - I won’t be.”// - Blair, pg. 285 - The men have lost everything that was a luxury to them, and they have no where to go. All they have is their identity and the identity of the people around them, which them gets taken away by the imitations that are appearing. -The crew become more paranoid because they have this fear of the unknown that slowly seeps its way into their lives - They have no way to hide and keep their secrets and hidden characteristics of their identity because the creature can read their thoughts - No personality to show off and be individual //“ Are you there?”// - Their crew starts questioning their own existence and their own identity //“ Would I know if I was a monster?”// - Since they do not know there their past reality ends and this monster’s actions beings, they become confused, desperate and paranoid //“We’re all monsters - all of us…”// - pg. 272 - The men question their/each other’s actions and the human instinct of acting on instinct //“McReady shook his great head slowly. ‘You know that Connant is Connant, because he not merely looks like Connant - which we're beginning to believe that beast might be able to do - but he thinks like Connant, talks like Connant, moves himself around as Connant does. That takes more than merely a body that looks like him; that takes Connant's own mind, and thoughts and mannerisms. Therefore, though you know that the thing might make itself look like Connant, you aren't much bothered, because you know it has a mind from another world, a totally unhuman mind, that couldn't possibly react and think and talk like a man we know, and do it so well as to fool us for a moment. The idea of the creature imitating one of us is fascinating but unreal because it is too completely unhuman to deceive us. It doesn't have a human mind.’”// - The identity of these men is having to be defended, and is now based on their thinking and movement and other mannerisms, instead of the way they look because there are possibly an imitation around that does not have the same thinking-skills to master how this individual would react to things

__Maurice, Carmina, Hannah, Dillon__

•What is your justification for being who you are? Pg. 269 “You know that Connant is Connant, because he not merely looks like Connant - which we're beginning to believe that beast might be able to do - but he thinks like Connant, talks like Connant, moves himself around as Connant does. That takes more than merely a body that looks like him; that takes Connant's own mind, and thoughts and mannerisms. Therefore, though you know that the thing might make itself //look// like Connant, you aren't much bothered, because you know it has a mind from another world, a totally unhuman mind, that couldn't possibly react and think and talk like a man we know, and do it so well as to fool us for a moment. The idea of the creature imitating one of us is fascinating, but unreal because it is too completely unhuman to deceive us. It doesn't have a human mind." -Weird how one day you can think you know almost everything about person, then the next be completely clueless •Are Identity and Privacy intertwined? Pg. 270 “What am I? Some kind of microscopic specimen you’re dissecting? Some unpleasant worm you’re discussing in third person.” Pg. 271 “Connant nodded bitterly. ‘I’m human. Hurry that test. Your eyes-Lord I wish you could see your eyes starring.”’(which leads to paranoia) - How can you have privacy when identity is not present? Pg. 279 “Ho ho! We’re all monsters. It works the same-we’re all monsters- all of us-Connant, Garry, and I-and all of you.”

Nicholas(typer),Aaron,Heather - Dr.Copper - Tries to help every situation. - Tried to figure out a test to see who is an alien. - " Dr.Copper, short, squatly powerful; and benning, five feet tenof wiry strength." - Once he and Garry are figured to be an alien, he sort-of loses his identity and becomes oblivious to the story. - Before he is thought to be an alien everyone sort-of looks to him for answers. He kind of takes their identity, giving the crew their thoughts and their answers.

- " Dr.Copper," McReady repeated, " could be right. I know I'm human- but of course can't prove it.

Michael Coffee (typer), Kalup Booze, and Jasmine Mapp.{The most annoying thing sometimes is when you get onto the internet and then can't get onto this wikispace T_T ---> Michael Coffee} Ideas: - self appearance/self actions - you being you - something that separtes you from others - a way to tell people apart - if we didn't have identity, then everyone would be exactly the same - we need an identity because we need to know who we are and what we are like Example: - license - passport Quotes: - "McReady shook his great head slowly. 'You know that Connant is Connant, because he not merely looks like Connant.....but he thinks like Connant, moves hiumself around as Connant does.'" ---This quote tells that not only are you identified by your appearance but also by your actions. - "McReady, a bronze giant of a man." ---This quote is about his phycial appearance where his bronze characteristic seperates him from others around him.