Book Critque 1

The book city of Hayat is a book published in 2017, by Kasra B. Fard, as the title of the book states it strives to interconnect at least on a thematic standpoint the chronicles of very different characters with similar motivations. In Chapter 1 we were told the story of Dr Burgess, in which he strived to get to know better the Amazonian jungles and to understand better the secrets of this unknown place filled by a big river and an infinity of trees. Although we were never revealed the motivations of Dr Burges we can assume that because Scythia was disobeying Zeus and was recently exiled out of Europe to go to South America this is a new place for Scythia and a mystery for the natives in South America.  Dr. Burges never came back from his last travel, and his son Dr J., in his quest for finding his father, ran across his journal. We were never revealed explicitly what was explicitly in his journal, however, upon closer examination we can deduce that what this journal holds in its writings are the laws of the City of Hay’at how the city is suppose to work and the hierarchy intended from Scythia. In this introduction by Fard he uses the logos in repeated moments by establishing that Scythia as the Amazonian jungle and the context through which this stories are going to take place.

Regarding the structure of the book it is clear that Kasra B. Fard did not intended a chronological literary narrative.Its proposal is a deductive narrative in which he goes from general concepts of the chronicles of Dr Burgess and Dr; to go to a more specific description of how the the city works through exposition of the conflict of desires between Nasha’at and his father Msa’adam. In the story of  Nasha’at and his desire to be the chosen one ( an apparent condecoration and honor for anyone in the city) and all the struggles his father had to passed to avoid his son from becoming the chosen one we are revealed that the rules of the game of the city are not clear for younger generations; all the efforts of his father to avoid  Nasha’at from being the chosen one were futile and once he was selected to be the chosen one he was instantly killed. After this incident his father lobbied to create a new law that would divide the city in two and he achieved it. Fard uses the rhetorical device of ethos through the introduction of Zula Kier and Ki-Ham’s conversation and manages to delve into deep discussions about philosophical subjects like freedom of action ( due to their environment ) or if its worth to defend yourself or die for a cause, even if the cause is true.  Pathos was repeatedly used throughout the book especially when Msa’adam was trying to avoid his son from becoming the chosen one; a plethora of emotions were detailed by Fard to increase the emotional moment between the naiveness of Nasha’at and his father’s futile hopes to save him.