Men Are Different, By Alan Boch

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Author Alan Boch, in his short story “Men Are Different”, describes a futuristic time where humans are not even really in the picture anymore, When fully understanding the story, readers begin to develop the central theme as simply understanding. For one group of people to understand the cultures and values of another, cherishing the other living organisms that they share the world with. The author elaborates as to explain the theme of moral in a way that shows when can happen to our world as we know it if we constantly push cultures away. Bloch attempts to communicate that us humans are losing our sense of connections and need to find the importance of culture to mankind.
This short story is a type of story that one cannot fully understand until the end, there is constantly things thrown in, changing your thinking of the theme or the point of the story. While I was reading through the story, I became to slowly make connections with each …show more content…

Bloch hints at throughout the story of how differences need to be shown for other cultures and explains why by using the story of the robot and the human. The author elaborates, “Once he learned out language we got along fine together, and I planned to bring him back with me.” (Bloch 2). He shows that when the two different cultures and species get together, they slowly learn to connect with each other. Alan Bloch also stated , “ I pushed the needle into his neck to operate the cut-off switch, and he stopped moving, just like a Robot. But when I opened him up he wasn’t the same inside. And when I put him back together I couldn't get him running again.” (Bloch 2). The robot in the story didn’t understand how the human worked and how he was different from himself. This goes further to showing that the two species lost connections and there way, hinting at how cultures need to learn how to connect and cherish their

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