Blog Set #3

In “That Only a Mother” I feel as if the fact that they are in a middle class setting the mother expects nothing less of perfect from the child. That’s why I feel like maybe she went a tad bit crazy and didn’t realize or acknowledged the fact that her child had no limbs. That to me is very creepy and strange.  She maybe feel as if what is going on such as the toxicants can’t affect her because of her status.

The story may reflect also on humanity and how people can be blind to certain things because they choose not to deal with reality. The child clearly has no limbs but the mother may have noticed but suppresses that idea because she feels that this could never happen to a woman of her status.

This conforms to the genre expectations by creating an eerie sense of discomfort at the end when you realize the mother is insane and doesn’t acknowledge the fact that her baby has no limbs. Also in the regard of science fiction the story has a hypothetical situation in which there is a rise in babies being born with mutations.

In “We See Things Differently” The story follows after America’s fall of economics and culture. All the nations the United States have helped rise up will eventually turn on the U.S to tear us down. The Arab world comes together and becomes a power block. We find this out from the perspective of Sayyid Qutb and he is an Arab coming to America to figure things outs and as well to make sure no one gets out of line.

 this conforms to the genre expectations of sci-fi by creating this future dystopia in where we find out the things that led to such event and how they could be possible.