Reviews for Alien Eraser Reveals the Secrest of Evolution (Max Disaster Series #3)

The average rating for Alien Eraser Reveals the Secrest of Evolution (Max Disaster Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-17 00:00:00 Michael Steinford This brought back memories of our field trip to the McCallum Theatre last year when we watched the performance of the dancers from Cambodia.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-09 00:00:00 Nancy Carter This story presents clear representations of culture through the dances performed and traditional garments worn by the main character. The happenings are seen through the lens of a little girl that appears to escape her humble, peasant world to chase her biggest dream that is to become a professional dancer of traditional Cambodian dancing. Beautiful women were perceived by her as "white moon-shaped faced-girls" that came from all around the country. When we zoom in on the fact of the girl praising the others over herself and the story itself hides from the reader her family's history or does not make any sort of allusion about her parents or any family strong relationships, there is a strong evidence of biased perceptions of social class and culture that come from the very idea of belittling own origins, in this case, peasant's lifestyle and their world views. Babyhood is recalled by her as soon as she is in contact with a foreign culture. Little Sap's trip to France with the dance company provides us with manifestations of the encountering of both cultures and the way the girl expresses a sort of craving for belonging in this "high" culture as she struggled to adapt herself to different situations and endure them as long as she finds a reward mostly coming from external desires (please artist's demands in order to have a painting of her as a sample to show Cambodian dance tradition). The environment in some way fosters an atmosphere of competence among the little dancer girls, as a result we see how this draws the artist's attention the most and so who is the best will be praised by being portrayed on one his canvas. The gift that was given to her by the artist Rodin, a pair of French shoes, speaks a lot about the symbolic biases worthy to analyze, As we continuously see in the book, the little girls are used to dance bare feet the traditional dancing, nonetheless, Mr. Rodin, considers that the best choice is to give Little Sap a middle heeled pair of french shoes, this is a sort of out of context thing that imply a hidden message of assimilation to a high "culture" of a "high" society pertaining to the west European culture. The girl is amazed... though, nobody is around to receive support. Wait a second... yes, there is someone: the Princess, who took her away from her family and barely knows who the girl really is and her origin. Although characters are not quite fully developed since there are many gaps the story does not bridge for the reader to reach a better understanding of the overall. We are able to see a subtle progress in "practice makes perfect" philosophy. The characters agency is in her fullest when she is beside adults who represent high social class values. There is not a strong agency when the main character is next to her pairs, instead, efforts are made to let us see the inferiority she feels while learning and the individual success that seems to exceed the genuine interest to support others in the learning path.