Science Fiction Story & Our Culture

What I have learned from those two science fiction stories, is how much it actually is similar to our own society. For example, the story of "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury reflects of how people in our society can be bullied. In the story a girl, named Margot, along with her classmates and the teacher, were now living in the planet Venus. But the special thing about Margot was that she just moved to the planet, meaning that she still remembered what the sun looked like (which is very important and valued in the planet because it only appears every 9 years for around 1-2 hours). And so the students despised her and were jealous of Margot and bullied her because of that. I can relate that story in real life. I've never actually experienced anything like that, but I'm sure that in some parts of the world, people abuse or bully people because of something that they don't have, and since they don't have that thing that a particular person has, they despise them for having it. The story "The Lottery" by Shirely Jackson, can also be compared to what happens in real life. A basic summary, is that there's this town who holds "lotteries" every single year, a person who gets chosen for the "lottery" will be stoned to death, and having your name drawn out from a box, is just not a reasonable way to die. In fact, it really makes no sense at all. In real life, there could be certain situations where a person can be mistreated very badly for the most obscure reasons. Sometimes no reason at all. So to sum up, these sci-fi stories can actually be applied or related to, to what happens in the real world, and not just be interesting stories to read.

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