Thursday, May 9, 2013

Authority

More than in any of the other stories we have read, there is some authority figure that the character must fight against or hide from. In “The Father-Thing”, it’s the child’s parents he must work against. In the Chromium Fence he’s fighting first against an imposed two party system, then eventually he fights the Purists. “We can Remember it for you Wholesale” has this a group with almost absolute strength, they read his mind and break into his apartment. Each of these stories has an impossibly powerful force that is being fought against.

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