The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
In the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo one of the main characters is a women name Lisbeth Salander. She is looked at as an outcast; people didn’t accept her because of the way she looked and dressed. “Armansky’s star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an inch long on her neck, a tattooed loop around the biceps of her left arm and another around her left ankle” (Larsson 41). She lives by her own rules and doesn’t listen to anyone. She works for a private investigator who sends her on cases to find out as much information about people that she can. She has a photographic memory and she can hack into computers. No matter whose computer it is, she is able to get on any computer and read all of the information it contains. An idea that I had would be to create a website advertising The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but taking a main focus on computer hackers. The website would start out with giving information about computer hackers. Do people really know the risk of putting all of their information online? Do people think about the personal things they are putting on facebook? In the book it talks about how Lisbeth only needed a little bit of information from the person to hack into all of their personal information. “If the individual owned a computer with an Internet connection, an email address, and maybe even a personal website, which nearly everyone did who came under her special type of research, she could sooner or later find out their innermost secrets” (Larsson 391). This website would give information about how easy it is to hack into someone else’s computer and find out everything about them. Having this website would bring in a different type of audience because it is all about computer hackers. Maybe more of a guy’s audience would look at the website and then see how much it has to do with the book. Then when they normally wouldn’t have read the book they could see it is all about a computer hacker and that might urge them to read the book more. When normally they wouldn’t have given the book a chance, seeing it has something they are interested in could cause them to rethink and pick up the book.
I think this idea will work because it is a really interesting topic. People need to be aware of the things that can happen when you put your information online. In the book Lisbeth finds out information about people that she could have never found anywhere else. She is always solving every case that Armasky gives her. This idea could really bring a different type of person in to read the book.
Good insights and overview of Lisbeth Salander's character. I like how your idea uses the book to provide a service to readers. It's a fun way to connect the novel to a real-life situation that everyone faces. That could definitely broaden the audience.
ReplyDeleteThis could be a very useful tool for many people. I don't think people really know the value and importance of what they post online. How anything can be tracked back to you, I certainly don't know everything about computers so this would a useful website for me as well. Connecting it to the main character would draw in many readers. Good idea!
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