American science fiction writers

held a fascination with extraterrestrial life. Science fiction tales were written in the second and tenth centuries (Joy and “Satire or the First Science”). Crop circles were claimed to be found in medieval times (Radford). Searches for canals built by martians were carried out more than two hundred years ago (Simon). The fascination with alien life integrated itself into human culture and as it changes, the beliefs change as well. Science fiction allows people to expand their imagination and…

In the short story, ¨ Thank You Ma'am,¨ written by Langston Hughes, the main character, Roger, is a dynamic because he starts off being careless and inconsiderate and soon learns to be respectful and polite. For example, after Mrs. Jones takes Roger to her house she offers him food “ [believing] you’re hungry,” but instead Roger’s denies the offer and his impolite side comes out because all “ [he wants] are a pair of blue suede shoes” (27). This quote shows Roger self-centered personality…

One of the books I read this summer is Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster. This is the 6th book in the series. This book is about Doctor Who and his friends Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. They got a distress signal in Scotland where there have been attacks on the oil rigs. The Doctor and his friends have to find out what is making these attacks and stop them at all cost. They find out that aliens called Zygons are trying to take over the Earth. The Zygons are using a half-robot…

12) One of my group members, Rashmi, seemed to think Gabriel was simply being modest and polite. I however find his statement to be pompous and arrogant. It is quite obvious he thinks rather highly of himself. He knows he is smarter than his audience. He wants them to think that he is so humble when he is actually the opposite. Her perspective makes me contemplate whether Gabriel was ever considerate of others. Did he really care about their feelings? Is that why he made the statement? Some of…

The loss of identity is prevalent amongst the Handmaids when they have to endure the struggle of control with wearing the same red uniformed dress, not showing their faces. Once the women convert to the now freedom less and strict life of being a Handmaid, their name is changed to only one name beginning with “of” from their given birth name. Offred and Ofglen have these names which are used as slave name for their function. Offred’s name is means “of Fred” which meaning that she belongs to her…

In my second critical reading exercise I wrote more than my last one. I included three paragraphs and I started off my assignment with, “In Sherman Alexie’s short story, “Indian Education”, includes many concepts of the genre conventions, such as being alienated from his society and feeling left alone to solve his own problems. However, Alexie also modified some genre conventions such as conflict of generations”. This introduction is different from my last critical reading assignment because…

In Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaids Tale, women are treated as if they are toys. In the Republic of Gilead love, equality, and disrespect are banned. For the reader, the aspect that is most pronounced is symbolism. The way Atwood shows symbolism could tell a story by itself. In the Republic of Gilead there are four major classes of people; beginning with the handmaids, the commanders, the eyes, and the wives. The republic has individual households that hold all of these classes, with…

Have you ever told a story, but adjusted some of the finer details in order to make it more appealing to another? People do this. It is just human nature to try and convince someone else that the event was genuinely intriguing. O'Brien does this within the storyline of The Things They Carried, by using metafiction to distinguish his storytelling and how to tell stories according to his thoughts. "By telling Stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down…

In Jennifer Phang’s 2015 film “Advantageous,” she takes us into the not-so-distant future, in a major American city characterized by unsettling, and in some cases terrifying, dystopian visions. In this visually opulent, but curiously empty city, Phang suggests a future where women are becoming sterile from environmental and psychological stress; children are homeless and prostituted; and everyone ruthlessly calculates how to secure a future for themselves and their children by scrabbling to the…

Demonstrating the strength of the setting played a major role in delivering the idea of the systemic control of the society in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood chose the non-resistant attributes of the protagonist in the novel carefully because she sought for displaying a clear picture of the story, without letting the protagonist’s pathos alter it; which helped on letting the historical notes increase the significance and the power of the setting by showing how non immune she was…