Steven Millhauser's The Invasion From Outer Space

Imagine seeing yourself staring at the sky at a big black object. You know that it’s foreign. Is this what you were waiting for? Is this it? In The Invasion From Outer Space Steven Millhauser gives a remarkable story about a town that is invaded by ,what the people call, “inanimate dust”. The people of the town get extremely disappointed on what they get and slowly find out that soon their town will be buried alive never to see again. The people of the town knew that they were going to be invaded.The following text it shows what they were “prepared for”. “From the beginning we were prepared, we knew just what to do, for hadn’t we seen it all a hundred times? - the good people of the town going about their business, the suddenly interrupted …show more content…
When you start to read the story you see that they were “prepared” for what they were getting. They knew that there was going to be an invasion. They didn’t think that it was going to be what they got. They expected something big; something that would send them running with their family by their side. They wanted the kind of invasions that you get in the movies. They wanted and invasion from Mars. But what they got was disappointing. They got yellow dust. They didn’t realize how dangerous this yellow dust was. They only saw some one cell living creature that was completely harmless. They didn’t see the danger. The only thing that the creatures knew how to do was reproduce, the little girl pointing in the air, the mouths opening. They saw the accumulation that had begun but they thought nothing of it. The authorities saw the issue but the people that were