Science Fiction, The Fortune Teller Of The Future

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Science Fiction, the fortune teller of the future

Science fiction, the fortuneteller of the future. Science Fiction is a type of a fiction that is based on a real or imagined technological advancements. Science fiction is known to tell the future throughout the literature of Science fiction. Science fiction was originally introduced to the world by Mary Shelley when she passed her award winning novel “ Frankenstein” in 1831. Science fiction is one the most intriguing subjects because everyone loves it and it helps the reader infer about what will happen in the future and how the world could encounter. Science fiction works as a cautionary tale due to the fact that science fiction illuminates the dangers and conflicts of technology, and portrays …show more content…

Science fiction giver a warning about the government becoming overpowering in the future. As shown in the award winning novel; “the Giver”, people live under a society where the government has taken full control. The society has lost the capacity to see color, feel emotion, and most importantly the emotion to love. Eventually a kid named Jonas comes around who has the capacity to feel emotion and see color, given to him by the giver. Jonas soon realizes “the community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known what could continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.” (lowry, 207.) Jonas signifies how the government is stealing what belongs to the society. The government is taking away the color, pain, and past of the society. They take that away trying to fix their problems. The government takes away what the society is made up of, they take away emotions, pain, past, and love. The government is trying to take the attributes that create conflict not knowing those are the ones that make life enjoyable. Not only the Giver but so does the pedestrian illustrates the use of an over powerful government in the future. The “Pedestrian” magnifies the over powerful government in the future due to the fact that the main character was arrested because he was walking outside by himself. Everyone in this society is on their televisions all day and do not come out. The officer thought it was peculiar for someone walking outside and the government is so powerful that they arrest a man for walking outside by himself. The author portrays how the government is so controlling in the future that a man is arrested for walking outside by himself. The government is becoming overpowering in reality as well, the

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