Science fiction reflects on humanity in
many ways. Some authors write about futuristic things like in the “Passenger”
when he said that his kitchen turned on automatically and started making him
breakfast and medicine by itself. The story was also written in 1968 but in the story it
was the year 1987 so they author made an assumption on how the future might be one
day. Others relate their stories to
human life situations like in “Out of All Bright Stars” when the blue alien was
judged differently because of how he looked. That can be related
to any person on earth that is also judged because of their differences like
ethnicity, gender and, age.
There were many differences between these two stories. In the “Passengers” the aliens abused the human race and took over their bodies like they were puppets. The main character Charles Roth would randomly be at any location and a passenger would go inside of him. He wouldn’t know anything the passenger did while he was inside of him. They choose to leave whenever they want to leave that specific body. Once they leave its just a big blur when the humans get their body’s under their control again. The way the Humans handled it was odd because they made it seem like it wasn’t that big of a problem. If that was me I wouldn’t handle a passenger in me as calm as the humans in this story do. “Out of All Bright Stars” was completely different because instead of the alien being the bad guy they are actually not harmful at all in this story. The blue alien wasn’t harming anyone in the restaurant; all he wanted to do was to eat. He was completely excluded from everyone else because he looked different. The owner bullied him until he left his restaurant and in my opinion that wasn’t right at all. The humans interacted with him in a very evil way besides Sally who saw passed his differences. The Introduction did help me by explaining science fiction more in depth and helping me understand the background of the genre.
Update: Having a conversation in class made me see these stories in a different way. For example, in the "Passengers" I now see that the way they are nonchalant about the situation is kind of related to real life. People always ignore things like it never happen at all times. They just look away from the situation and go about their day. Another interesting thing that I see now is that at the end of the story Charles said, "Then i walked over to the bar" as if he knew what he was doing but it was suppose to be the passenger controlling him. He got bits of pieces of what happened when he got his body back. There were little things that he saw that he would be familiar with kind of like a deja vu type of thing. Another thing that I heard was that they might of just had an identity disorder. Now in "Out of All Bright Stars" I only saw racism but now I see abuse and character's going against their morals. Charlie abuses his own wife and doesn’t help her until she is down. Sally hated Charlie and John by the end of the story. She hated Charlie because he was a bully and she hated everything he did and she knew it was wrong. She had to go against her morals and deal with him because she needed her job to survive. Now, she hated John for making her realize how much she hates Charlie and also that she has to deal with him. At the end of the story she repeated what he said " I make little difference" but she didn’t agree with that because he made a big impact on her that day. Everyone has their own perspective on how they interrupt these stories and it opens up many ways in how I see these stories now.
There were many differences between these two stories. In the “Passengers” the aliens abused the human race and took over their bodies like they were puppets. The main character Charles Roth would randomly be at any location and a passenger would go inside of him. He wouldn’t know anything the passenger did while he was inside of him. They choose to leave whenever they want to leave that specific body. Once they leave its just a big blur when the humans get their body’s under their control again. The way the Humans handled it was odd because they made it seem like it wasn’t that big of a problem. If that was me I wouldn’t handle a passenger in me as calm as the humans in this story do. “Out of All Bright Stars” was completely different because instead of the alien being the bad guy they are actually not harmful at all in this story. The blue alien wasn’t harming anyone in the restaurant; all he wanted to do was to eat. He was completely excluded from everyone else because he looked different. The owner bullied him until he left his restaurant and in my opinion that wasn’t right at all. The humans interacted with him in a very evil way besides Sally who saw passed his differences. The Introduction did help me by explaining science fiction more in depth and helping me understand the background of the genre.
Update: Having a conversation in class made me see these stories in a different way. For example, in the "Passengers" I now see that the way they are nonchalant about the situation is kind of related to real life. People always ignore things like it never happen at all times. They just look away from the situation and go about their day. Another interesting thing that I see now is that at the end of the story Charles said, "Then i walked over to the bar" as if he knew what he was doing but it was suppose to be the passenger controlling him. He got bits of pieces of what happened when he got his body back. There were little things that he saw that he would be familiar with kind of like a deja vu type of thing. Another thing that I heard was that they might of just had an identity disorder. Now in "Out of All Bright Stars" I only saw racism but now I see abuse and character's going against their morals. Charlie abuses his own wife and doesn’t help her until she is down. Sally hated Charlie and John by the end of the story. She hated Charlie because he was a bully and she hated everything he did and she knew it was wrong. She had to go against her morals and deal with him because she needed her job to survive. Now, she hated John for making her realize how much she hates Charlie and also that she has to deal with him. At the end of the story she repeated what he said " I make little difference" but she didn’t agree with that because he made a big impact on her that day. Everyone has their own perspective on how they interrupt these stories and it opens up many ways in how I see these stories now.
most of us agree on the bullied blue alien being wrong and how they should have let him be and I think that was a big part in that story as little as it might of seem if you really look at it, it does relate to us humans as well to be in the same position so I agree with you as well on this.
ReplyDeleteI have to concur with what Priscilla said. The story focused on racial discrimination and how we treat others based on their appearance and not actually knowing the person for who they are. The story focused on, "Judging a book by its cover."
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