Sci Fi Blog Post Section 3

Science Fiction Blog Post #2 Due TUESDAY March 22

Explain the following quotation, then explain how it relates to the novel you are reading.  Write a well developed paragraph and use textual evidence in your response. “You can’t change the world.  You can only change yourself.” – Beatrice Wood

Science Fiction Section 1 - Due Friday, March 11

Read this passage from the introduction of Fahrenheit 451:

Ideas - written ideas - are special. They are the way we

transmit our stories and our thoughts from one generation

to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We

lose much of what makes us human. And fiction gives us 

empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people,

gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. 

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Write a paragraph that answers the questions below. Use textual evidence for part c.

1. What do you think he means by “fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over”?
2. Do you agree with the idea? Why or why not?
3. What true things do you think your book is telling us about what we need to be human?
4. Do you think our shared history is something that makes us human? Explain.