English

                                  E.M. Forster "The Machine Stops"

link to short story

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

This assignment divides into three parts. In the First part (approx. 2 paragraphs), you must summarize the central argument(s) about the short story in one of the critical readings; in the Second part (approx. 1-2 paragraphs), you must discuss how that argument/those arguments apply to a discussion of science fiction; and in the third part (approx. 2 paragraphs), you must support your claim(s) in part 2 with evidence from one of the science fiction short stories that we have read.