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fun to imagine how one might act differently than the protagonist and having a deeper understanding of their universe makes reading more interesting, which is part of the reason I like reading science fiction so much. I would defiantly recommend the book to anyone who likes science fiction or popular fiction like The Hunger Games. Also if they have read either Uglies by Scott Westerfeld or The Giver by Lois Lowry and at least liked the concept of the book I think they would enjoy this novel too…

handmaid’s become walking billboards advertising the scarlet woman” (Snodgrass). With this allusion to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, Atwood clearly displays the isolation that comes along with the name tag of “handmaid”. In this society women are judged on what color they wear. Yet, if none of them were to wear a color, no man or authority figure would be able to tell the difference between them. Once again looking back on the American Gothic era, the Puritans held a similar class system to…

are different from our own society, but also include elements that we are familiar with. These dystopian societies will not be far from our own future if we abuse the powers that we posses. Margaret Atwood claims that she is not a science fiction writer. Science fiction suggests things that humans are not able to do. (Atwood) Both books have things that we are capable of doing through our technology and government. In Oryx and Crake, the technology they have is not far from what we have now. In…

I believe that the main theme in H.G. Well’s The Time Machine is that a view of something can be so certain and simple but it can have many different meanings, most importantly the idea of time. Time begins the discussion in the beginning of the novel where the Time Traveler is explaining that you can travel through time. Now, this has already been proven by Einstein that if you can travel faster than the speed of light then you can travel through the future, creating his equation E=mc2.…

How will our future be affected by the rapid growth of technology? Well the two short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét. both deal with this topic.The story “By the Waters of Babylon” was written by Stephen Vincent Benét around the time of WWII. With “By the Waters of Babylon” by Benét being written at this time makes a very ominous tone. Where “Harrison Bergeron” is set in 2081 and was written in the late 1940’s.The two…

In her novel, When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka explores how people’s identity can be forced to change due to fear. Fear causes people to change because people may not be able to handle all of the pressure and stress. In the novel based around WWII, the family is split apart from each other. While the father goes to prison,the mother and the kids go to an internment camp close to Utah. While they are in the camp the pressure fear has put on all of them leads to an unstable life…

Liking is for cowards, go for what Hurts - Jonathan Franzen’s work ‘Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts’ is structured around the idea that humans live in a world where increasingly the most important relationships in our lives, are the superficial and short lived ones we have with our tech devices. I agree with Jonathan’s point that that amongst a world of techno-consumerism we hide our real selves, and that we portray the version of ourselves that we think is going to be the most…

Haley Ledford August 19th, 2017 AP English Literature Summer Work Ms. Petersen Linda’s Exile in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Linda in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an example of a character who experiences a sudden change in life and is displaced from her home. In the world Huxley describes in the novel, humans are essentially manufactured instead of born so it is therefore “indecent” for a woman to actually give birth to a child that hasn’t undergone government conditioning.…

working class is happening today. Another reason that defines a classic novel is that the piece of literature has a brilliant story that is completely unique. (What Are Classic Novels?) The Time Machine was one of the first science fiction novels that really went in depth about the science of time travel. The novel also pioneer the idea of the time machine in order to facilitate travel through time. (Temple) In T.S. Elliot’s essay presented to the Virgil Society in 1947, Elliot describes how a…

Unorthodox is defined as not conforming to rules, traditions, or religion. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the three characters Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John the Savage all display unorthodox behavior. Huxley’s Brave New World is centered around the World State and their sexually driven community. Every citizen is scientifically designed for a specific caste and job. The three main characters, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson are unorthodox, and all in different…