Practice Essay
Practice Essay
In class I have studied two speculative fiction short stories. Speculative fiction is a story genre that puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations, asking the question “what if?” It also opens up disturbing questions about humanity and society. “Visiting the Millionaire” by George Anthony and “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury are both examples of spec-fiction because they both raise questions about humanity and society and the way that we treat other people. Another reason is that both these stories make predictions or speculate about the future and they ask the question “what if?”
These two stories both open up disturbing questions about the way that humanity and society treat each other. This means that the author is questioning the way that something works in our world or raising awareness about an issue within society. In “All Summer in a Day” the question about bullying is opened up. It asks us why we bully people that may be a little different to us. In the story Margo is bullied by William because “she had come here only five years ago from Earth”. Consequently for the only two hours of sunlight every 7 years on Venus the other kids put her in “a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door” because they didn’t believe her that the sun would come out. In “Visiting the Millionaire” George Anthony opens up interesting questions about humanity, examining the way that humans think that they can take things from other people without thinking about the consequences. In the story, the last human alive is killed by an alien. “So died the last of human beings. A thousand civilisations smothered in infancy by human benevolence, had been avenged”. This means that “not through force, but through the irresistible spread of its freely-shared technology and cultures” that the humans smothered the aliens. They used kindness to take advantage of the aliens. Evidently this relates to humanity because some countries share
In class I have studied two speculative fiction short stories. Speculative fiction is a story genre that puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations, asking the question “what if?” It also opens up disturbing questions about humanity and society. “Visiting the Millionaire” by George Anthony and “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury are both examples of spec-fiction because they both raise questions about humanity and society and the way that we treat other people. Another reason is that both these stories make predictions or speculate about the future and they ask the question “what if?”
These two stories both open up disturbing questions about the way that humanity and society treat each other. This means that the author is questioning the way that something works in our world or raising awareness about an issue within society. In “All Summer in a Day” the question about bullying is opened up. It asks us why we bully people that may be a little different to us. In the story Margo is bullied by William because “she had come here only five years ago from Earth”. Consequently for the only two hours of sunlight every 7 years on Venus the other kids put her in “a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door” because they didn’t believe her that the sun would come out. In “Visiting the Millionaire” George Anthony opens up interesting questions about humanity, examining the way that humans think that they can take things from other people without thinking about the consequences. In the story, the last human alive is killed by an alien. “So died the last of human beings. A thousand civilisations smothered in infancy by human benevolence, had been avenged”. This means that “not through force, but through the irresistible spread of its freely-shared technology and cultures” that the humans smothered the aliens. They used kindness to take advantage of the aliens. Evidently this relates to humanity because some countries share