Thursday, April 30, 2009

How do the stories -All Summer in a Day, -Flowers for Algernon and -There will come soft rains link to Utopia?

How do these short stories link to the idea of utopia?

How do the stories -All Summer in a Day, -Flowers for Algernon and -There will come soft rains link to Utopia?
Flowers for Algernon relates because they're trying to fix people. It's been a while since I've read the book, so bear with me.





The illness (I can't remember what it is) that the man has that they're trying to take away makes him unique, even though it's not really a desirable trait. But science thinks they can cure him of it, and a cure for what he has would be epically world-changing.





But the fix doesn't work, and so the man is that much farther away from being "perfect."





In a utopian world, no one is sick, and people are all basically the same, at the same level. To be able to cure someone of an abnormality would bring us all that much closer to being "perfect" and the same.
Reply:There will come soft rains is about an automated house continuing to function after the humans have died. The house would be Utopian.





I don't see a connection between Flowers for Algernon and Utopia and I'm not familiar with the third story.

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