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Comparing Dystopian And Seventh Grade By Gary Soto

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“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.” - Marion Zimmer Bradley. This quote really describes what science fiction is. While realistic fiction focuses on real life, science fiction is a lot more imaginative and creative. Science fiction is something that lets the writer explore different worlds and really ask “what if?” It is looking at all the aspects in our world both negative and positive and really emphasizing them. In dystopian you can find hidden meaning and themes while realistic fiction is more one sided. Dystopian and realistic fiction have more differences than similarities because they are set in different times, in Dystopian the conflict is more dangerous and life …show more content…

This is shown in “Seventh Grade” by: Gary Soto. “On the first day of school, Victor stood in line half an hour before he came to a wobbly card table. He was handed a packet of papers and a computer card on which he listed his one elective, French.” (1) . In “Seventh Grade” the main character Victor shows us what his day at school is like, we learn about his friends and about all the boring books he is going to have to read. This is also shown in "The Fun They Had” By Isaac Asimov. “Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. "Because it's not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago." He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, "Centuries ago." (2) This story is the opposite of "seventh grade” because the protagonist is wondering about what school was like and all the books, in addition we learn that in the future they have private robot teachers and the protagonist dislikes this. We know that these two stories are based in a different time period because in "The Fun They Had” they wonder what school and they talk about the differences between their current education and schools centuries ago. It is interesting to see how children of the future might be educated and the difference between the past and the future even though we don’t know much about the future. This proves that another way realistic fiction and science fiction have more differences is because they are set in different time

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