Fear in Literature, Tuesday 4th period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon was back to looking his normal, haunted and run-down self, albeit he was making an attempt and was nicely dressed and his hair was combed.

The board today said: The Vast: Fear of heights, space, deep water, and wide open spaces. Fear of insignificance.

He nodded at the students as they settled. "So. Today's story, "The Nothing Equation", is classified as science fiction rather than strictly horror, though I'm a bit baffled it can't be seen as both. Also, it has very little to do with math, if you were wondering." And if you hadn't read it, Troy.

"It is, however, very much about the fear of the depths of space and the nothing found there, and the insignificance of one human being against all of...well, everything. Do you feel that was well conveyed? How do you think you might do in such a situation? Do you agree with Captain McDowell about the right way to handle the situation?"



After the discussion, next week's assignment was written on the board: Uzumaki.

Comments

Sign in!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Surrounded by nothing.

Listen to the lecture

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Hope your instructor isn't making you feel insignificant.

Class activity

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Does the story convey the fear well? How might you handle such a thing? Do you think the captain has the right idea?

Talk to Jon!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

He's here!

OOC!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Okay, realizing this is probably bothering nobody but me, but yes, we were going in alphabetical order, and no, now we're not anymore. Because I'm having a hard time finding something for The Stranger that's a) in English, b) published legitimately online for free, and c) not violently racist (even more than some of the others). And then I didn't want to do the two long reads back to back. So we skipped st and sp and went straight to v and next it's back to sp. Apologies to anybody else as OCD as me.

Re: Sign in!

[x_discospider_x]

Troy Barnes

Re: Sign in!

[onlyajones]

Jo Jones

Re: Class activity

[onlyajones]

“Um…” Jo shifted a bit uncomfortably, “I’m terrified of deep water, well water in general but deep water especially …there was an incident at my old school…” she admitted quietly, “I …I can’t swim so I think the story did convey that fear rather well,”

Re: Sign in!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle

Re: Class activity

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon offered her a sympathetic grimace. "I'm sorry to hear that, though the author might be pleased to know the story worked."