Snow Crash

After reading the first few pages of Snow Crash I felt alot of different emotions. First of all I was honeslty kind of shocked at what I was reading. I right away put my self into the shoes of the Deliverator when he is talking about how the world is now. He says, "No sidewalks, no schools, no nothing. Dont have their own police force, no immigration control, undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed." (pg.6) I could never imagine living in a place with those things. I know that this is a very technologically advanced world that Hiro and the other characters are living in but I still cant imagine how they do it. I was also a little confused at first when he starts explaining how the pizza delivery system works. Like why would someone ever want to set up a system that works that way. But then it got me into thinking that today everyone wants everything right now and cant wait for things so maybe this is how our society will end up. Everything will always be in such a timely manner (not that it isnt right now) but that there will be consequences for not meeting the time requirements, that would really be outrageous.
To go with this same theme Stephenson talks about how when there wasnt a pizza ready for the Deliverator that he got very upset and knew that somethign was wrong when the window opened up. From that little fire, he got so upset and knew that he couldnt show that because he didnt want to upset Uncle Enzo and knew that if he payed any attention to it the pizza would be late and he would have to pay. The anticipation throughout that whole scene when he knew he had to get that pizza delivered was pretty intense. Stephenson creates alot of scenes throughout the book like this.
When I was reading the start of chapter 19, page 149 when he talks about standing above Lago's corpse. It reads," He is beyond astonishment as he stands and stares at Lago's corpse. All the emotions will probably come piling in on him later, when he goes home and tries to sleep. For now, the thinking part of his brain seems cut loose from his body, as if he has just ingested a great deal of drugs, and he is just as cool as Squeaky." I like this passage because I think alot of people can relate to how he is feeling. Whenever you encounter a dead or dieing person you almost never know how to react or what the right thing to say or do is. Your whole body goes numb and you dont know what is really going on. This passage also makes me feel a little confused because you would think that someone as strong minded as Hiro doesnt let these kinds of things get to him, but like it said maybe once he goes home everything that has happen will hit him all at once and he wont know how to handle it. Whenever people keep their emotions bottled up we always tend to explode sooner or later. I think that this book will give alot more relizations about how the future of our world will be because in my opinion we have already started heading there.