The Fun They Had By Issac Asimov

Imagine living in the future, and you find something from centuries and centuries ago. You think it’s weird what the people in the past did back then. This is exactly how Margie and Tommy feel when they find a book from the past. This story takes place in the future where their only books are on their television. Tommy finds a book in his attic and he and Margie start reading it. It’s about school from the reader’s time period. They both think they have to throw the book away once you're done reading it. They talk about the teachers and classrooms that are mentioned in the book and how they differ from their teachers and their classrooms. Margie thinks about the fun they must have had with other kids in their class with them as she goes to

The author shows this right from the beginning when Margie and Tommy are discussing books from the reader’s time. He shows that they don’t know what to do when they are done reading the book, showing how little they know. Later in the story, Margie and Tommy talk about how weird the teachers in the book are to them. Margie doesn’t think a teacher should be a man, again showing how uneducated they are on the reader’s time. Towards the end, they talk about the strange classrooms from the book's time period. This shows that they think classrooms are strange, because they don’t understand and know that this is normal for the people in the book. Without the author portraying this in the characters, the story would have no purpose. The story wouldn’t be fun to read without reading about the difference between the book's time period and theirs, and finding out how people in the future might react if they talk about things from the present in the actual future. Readers should appreciate what the authors do with characters to make the story fun to read. They might be surprised by all the different things authors do with the characters, including showing how little they