DOUBLE BLOCK TODAY, LAST BEFORE BREAK!
Saw mark for ROOT QUIZ 5!
Finishing The Martian Chronicles:
"There Will Come Soft Rains":
Title references Teasedale's poem, BUT this story emphasizes our machines indifference to humanities annihilation.
Music and Religion referenced.
Similar to "The Veldt"s happy-life home.
House is comparable to Hathaway's family.
No people in story.
The House is the protagonist struggles to carry out/maintain daily routines. Fire is antagonist.
PG.220-224: The automatic house carries out it's daily routines in a destroyed neighbourhood; the dog dies, and house cleans.
PG. 224-225: Describing life in the Nursery.
PG.225- 226: House reads the poem.
PG.226-228: House burns and dies.
COURSE QUESTION! #1,3.
In absence of having a perspective,the house cannot guide judgement.
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"The Million-Year Picnic"
A lot of water and fish references. (Renewal?)
-Cathedral (230)
Music reference.
PG.229-231: A Family, on vacation, on Mars, is going off to fish.
PG.231-241: Dad explains everything to the family after rocket destroyed.
Course Question: #3,
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"The Fire Balloons" is Spring break homework!! Please, this is for my lesson :D
Do what we have done in class: like the group work we did for "There Will Come Soft Rains".
Course Question!
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