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Satirical Sci-fi

Satire has always been a favored "genre" of mine, and for this week's satirical sci-fi I rewatched the movie "Idiocracy". This is a fabulous movie for this genre because it still is a very real, yet horrifying and comedic, take on our future world. Although, it is truly a statement of the present times and our society today, like all satire. It illustrates what we prioritize in our world today, such as commercialism, food intake, and consumerism in general. It shows the toll our planet will take, due to our current treatment of it, and the consequences there in. "Idiocracy" portrays a semi-lighthearted, slightly crude take on the future enough that people are able to digest it, but still hide from the issues its dealing with. The in class movie, "Downsizing" I felt related back to "Idiocracy" in a very distinct way in dealing with the constant issue of the state of our planet, but took this stance in a different tone. There was ver...
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Spirituality in the Novel

There are many ways fantasy novels can deal with social, moral, or spiritual issues in a way that young adults or even children can understand and relate to them. Harry Potter does an excellent job at this through many of the issues among the characters. Such as the most blatant and prominent issue between good and bad witches and wizards (Voldemort vs Harry) which can be seen as any good vs evil figures in life. However, there are other issues that aren't as blatantly obvious, such as the social issues of "mudblood". The word "mudblood" is a slang for a child born from one magical parent and one muggle. Hermione is a mudblood which is looked down upon those of "purebread" stature. This can be seen as a parallel to a bastard, or even just a lower class of people. There is also the way of dividing the kids into houses, which helps them build their own sense of structure, team, morals, and responsibilities that are hugely important to their growing up, ...
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Literary Speculation

This week's discussion on literary work v.s. genre work poses a very interesting topic. When we were first brought this subject, I didn't know what it was exactly talking about or even close to talking about. However through comparing the aspects and elements of literary works to those of genre works it has now become apparently clear. There are some stories, and texts that fall directly into the Sci-fi genre because they are about that, science fiction in its full. However there are those other texts that hold themes and perhaps elements that are found in sci-fi genre, but not considered to fall into the genre itself. The short story "The Distance of The Moon" I believe is a literary work, opposed to a sci-fi genre. This text does have distinct elements of sci-fi and fantasy as well, such as jumping to the moon, the moon being so close to earth you can reach it, and harvesting the milk of the moon. However, the main concept and plot of the story is not based on the ...
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