Middlesex and Into the Jungle

For my next book, that I have to read for school (you may be thinking ugh but im actually really excited), I’m reading Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. For our assignment, we had to choose a contemporary literature book and this book really caught my eye. Not only did it catch my eye however, I asked my teacher what she would suggest and that was one of them.

I think it caught my eye because when I read the summary and heard my teacher talk about it, she said it was about a person who was biologically both a male and a female, called a hermaphrodite. I thought that it was going to be really interesting because, me being a biology student, was very confused and curious has to how this could happen. I haven’t started it yet, but I hope to start it tomorrow and I couldn’t be more excited.

Another thing I’m really excited to learn is how this individual learned to deal with this condition and what they decided to do. I don’t quite understand how this really could happen because not to be blunt with this, but its not like someone could have both parts, so that’s what I really hope they explain in this story.

                This is different from the topic I was just talking about, but while we are on the topic of starting new books for school, I also have to read a book about evolution called Into the Jungle for my AP Biology class. I can honestly say that im not as excited to read this book as Middlesex, but I guess its going to be pretty interesting to go in depth about all the different evoultionary aspects and theories that are more complicated than they seem. For example, it would seem easy to explain how we get every different species and different animals. The answer would be mutations, but the really hard question would be why do mutations occur because there is no set reason why. This concept is hard for me to wrap my head around, but hopefully I learn something interesting from this book.