From chapters 6 through 7, it was packed with a lot of information that clarified a lot of unanswered questions i had. for example, kemmering and the process of kemmering was revealed in ch7. my hypothesis was correct! Kemmering is their way of sexual contact. it was actually really weird reading it, but what was more weird was when i found out that one of the male partner morphes in and out as a female. that's different. anther fact i'd like to address is, also in ch.7, when the narrator says, "you cannot think of a Gethenian as 'it'. they are not neuters. they are potentials, or integrals."(p94), I strongly agree! but i feel that Le Guin making the male gender dominant and addressing the characters as men, in a way, contradicts the whole idea of kemmering because during kemmering one out of the two males become a FEMALE. also, the book is interesting but what makes it hard to understand and to read is Le Guin's way of writing the chapters. she doesn't always give clues to what her made up words mean, for example, shethgrythor. i still have no idea what that means.

throughout chapters 8-10 a lot of things also was revealed. like the king, argaven was pregnant and was made fun of for being old and bearing a baby. and that Estraven is not a traitor for wanting to give away land. his reasons were to prevent war and create peace, but the king totally misinterpreted it.

The Left Hand of Darkness

When i had first read The Left Hand of Darkness, it was really confusing to understand. it's a book that is kind of out of my element, but it is pretty interesting. i really don't get much of what is going on and with whom. But i know it's definitely a story out of the ordinary. Gen li is a foreigner? and is somewhat being questioned by the mysterious Estraven. The group project we've done in class has helped me understand most of what is happening. talking with my group mates and discussing the events taking place in the story has clarified many of the questions i had. I find it interesting that kemmering in the book is a vow that two brothers make to each other to be together forever, well only up until one bears a child! Wow! that was something i definitely did not see coming. another event that i thought was also surprising, was when the brother that did not bear a child, would commit suicide. omg. that also was unexpected. getheren was mentioned to have seen his brother, which by the way had killed himself, in an all white scenary. i'm interpreting this all white scenary to be the snow and blizzard that this book describes as the story goes on. but im still also kind of confused, does it mean the blizzard, because in ch. 2 that's what it's titled, or does it mean heaven? because its where getheren saw the ghost of his dead brother, hode.