Time travel

Kindred is a science fiction book written by Octavia Butler which explores slavery, interracial relationships, family history, love, hate, and fear through time travel. The main character and narrator is Edana who goes by Dana, an African American woman newly married to Kevin who is white in 1976. Dana and Kevin have just moved from an apartment in Los Angeles to a home of their own a few miles away in Altadena. In the prologue Dana’s arm was crushed inside a wall in her home, and had to be…

Each one of these stories had dangerous things that the people or person encountered. Do you think you could survive being attacked by a dinosaur or a crocodile? Both stories, ‘’A Sound of Thunder and ‘’Being Prey’’ both had an experience with a dangerous reptile. Would you be up for the challenge? The setting in each of these stories were ‘’relatably’’ different. They each had to do with some sort of dangerous reptile. In ‘’Being Prey’’ the setting was in present day – in a swamp. This is…

In life, there are times a person may face challenging situations. A person may never know how strong or smart they really are until they are challenged. It may be standing up to a bully, or withstanding a life threatening situation. It is truly amazing what a person can endure to survive; they will find how strong they truly are. The novel, Kindred, by Octavia Butler is a great example of this idea. In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, she uses Dana’s and other characters behaviors to suggest the…

The Time Traveler’s wife is about a man, Henry, who discovers he is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder . Which basically means he can time travel, he has no control over when and where he travels but he eventually discovers he only time travels when he has moments of emotional gravity from his life, past, and future. Henry discovered his ability when he was in a car accident as a child, where his mother was killed. After that day Henry had been time traveling to…

Science Fiction also involves spaceships, aliens, time travel, space exploration, new worlds, and genetic manipulation. An example of a movie that is science fiction is Avatar, a movie that describes a greedy, industrialized technological society. Some examples that Avatar is science fiction are throughout the movie they used highly technically advanced ships to transport them to an unknown planet. That has to do with going into new worlds and time exploration. The humans then become the…

THE 4-HOUR ZONE presents as an intriguing sci-fi, psychological, conspiracy thriller. The concept of a woman falsely accused of murder, who then travels back in time to clear her name, is a solid premise. The premise has good potential to create a tense thriller. The initial goal is well defined (clear her name) and the stakes are high. The protagonist is thrust into a high-stakes situation where she has to overcome many obstacles. She faces a strong adversary. Strong themes about revenge,…

Chapter 1: After reading the first chapter I can tell that I 'm going to enjoy this book. The book is set up in an interesting fashion. I like how each story is told in a segment. The author’s tone in the first chapter is interesting. He is talking in a calm tone. This juxtaposes the title of the book because I would think that Slaughterhouse Five would entail a book with extreme violence. He 's telling background about his life in an interesting way, he finds ways to tell the reader specific…

In Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”, Eckels traveled back in time and accidentally stepped on a butterfly, therefore changing all of history. After seeing the T-Rex, Eckles realized that it was impossible to kill it and ran of the Path they were intended to stay on “Eckles!” He took a few steps, blinking, shuffling. “Not that way!” (6). This is important because it was when everything was about to change. He had ran off the path and the guide Travis had said that if they did they could change…

When time features in literature and films, it often shows the relationships between the past and the future. In Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison shows how Sethe had dehumanizing experiences during her years of slavery. Even in freedom, Sethe was reminded of her past which affected her decisions and destroyed her identity. In contrast, in Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grubber’s The Butterfly Effect (2004), Evan witnessed and participated in traumatizing events in his childhood. When he discovers his…

In this section it is hard to understand the reason for travel or lack there of. In The Paid Piper Grant Stoddard discusses his own home of New York rather than describing a travel experience. He is trying to show us as readers what to expect when traveling to New York. He takes a different route than others, which could be the “travel writing” in this piece. Stoddard shows us a side of New York that we otherwise would not have experienced without his input. It is interesting to see how well a…