The two stories we read today were both excellent examples of science fiction. Both are set in the future, involve a high level of scientific knowledge in one or a few of the characters, and both have aliens and the theme of xenophobia in them.
The first story, Random Sample, showed the theme of xenophobia because aliens visited Earth. They arrived and were unusual to the little children that found them. Even though the children did not show great fear toward the aliens when they arrived, they were will unsure and confused about them. Then, at the end of the story, the xenophobia is prominent when the little girl begins to be frightened by the enlarged sun and is referring to the creature watching over her at the moment as "billy goat". In the other story, The King of the Beasts, the theme of xenophobia is shown through the setting and plot of the story. The story is set on a planet we don't, maybe Earth or maybe somewhere else. What sparks the most xenophobia in the story is the fact that the biologist who talks in the story is growing a man, which shows us that the biologist is not a human, but is something else.
Overall, I enjoyed both stories, but both left me wondering. Where were they? What was going on? What year is it, how far into the future are they? What is their technology like? What are they? Even though the questions will remain unanswered, I still liked both stories because they were very imaginative and explored to different sides of xenophobia: If humans are scared of aliens, and if aliens are scared of humans.
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