In the story Random Sample, we see a couple of kids who are spoiled and somewhat bratty. As a kid, I always remember the days where I would step on ants in the summertime with my sister. We would also draw on the sidewalk with chalk, and we would get annoyed when the ants got in our way of drawing. In this story however, the kids are very judgemental of the way these new creatures look when they are questioned. Just like the ants, the children treat them badly. I think that the way it ends is very interesting and every ironic as well. As a result of the kids torturing the ants, the kids are then tortured in a very similar way, with a magnifying glass. They describe that the ants must see that sun cover up the entire sky and blaze down on them. They also say that the ants hardly know that you are there until they almost touch your toe. Is the author suggesting the same thing about people through an alien point of veiw? Is it stories like these that makes people more xenophobic.
The story King of the Beasts almost reminded me of Jerasic Park. It takes you back to the biological standpoint of beings and creatures being created from DNA through a testube. The thing that I find interesting is that at first, I thought it wrong to be creating man in this way until I thought, how different are we really from any other animal other than supreme intelect and souls. Animals, like us, crave the same ateention and desire for power among their species. Does the author suggest that the different species of the world have xenophobia toward each other?
No comments:
Post a Comment