Literature: Poetry, Prose and Multimedia Flashcards
fitting in - Max gladstone
robin ruttigur, he tried to be one of the people to win a super hero reality show but now he is a high school guidance counselor.
What is ‘Fitting In’ about?
About a guy called Robin Ruttiger, who tried to win a superhero reality TV show, but lost and ended up as a high-school guidance counsellor. He has the power of elasticity. A dude comes in a cafe and wrecks the place, and they find that he works with shape-shifting aliens. The whole plot is just Robin fighting off the shape-shifters.
Where does ‘Fitting In’ take place?
Jokertown (mostly takes place in Ruttiger’s favourite cafe)
Who (or what) helps out at the end of ‘Fitting In’?
A bull (a shape-shifter who turns into everything he eats)
The bicentennial man ~ Isaac asimov
one robot called andrew. he joins a human family(Martin) like a personel health care companion. He is names Andrew Martin. The elder daughter of the family doesn’t like him. she orders him to jump out the window and that injures his mechanism. The father richard martin orders her to treat him as human, like part of the family. He accidently breaks a glass figurine which belongs to the little girl and he feels sad and makes the girl a similar figure out of wood. the familly is amazed because he showed creativity and emotion. richard takes andrew to the company and the owener says that hey could scrap the robot and that angered the father and they take him home and educate him about humanity. He slowly breaks down and they change his robot parts to human parts, the last thing they do is give him a brain. then they banished him because he was an android, no one accepted him. he fellin love with the little girls grand daughter. She fell in love with him. Andrew wanted the world to recognise him as human so that he could marry portia but the rejcted them. over 100 years he proceeds to make himself a prostetic human, he ages and they die tigether.
What is ‘Invisible Man’ about?
It is about a black man in a time era when racism was very prominent in America. He calls himself an invisible man due to people not willing to recognise him as being present in the world because he is black.
What is ‘Lorry Raja’ about?
It is about the marginalisation of child workers. It concerns a family who is poor and works in mines (children included). A fourteen-year-old has the job of a lorry-driver, and he considers himself having a higher status as others; everyone calls him ‘lorry king’ (lorry-raja). The story is narrated by the middle son (who is twelve and works in the mines). He slowly grows jealous of his lorry-driving brother.
Where does ‘Lorry Raja’ take place?
Karnataka in India (A really poor place in the South of India)
How does ‘Lorry Raja’ end?
It holds a brief glimpse of respite for all the characters, even while is kind of mocks that everything that the middle child believed was true.
Summary
the story starts with him having the powers like elastic girl. In joker town. one day the stranger asks the owner to give him the shop. He keeps pestering bu the owner kicks him out. Late the window breaks, the shop was in the owner’s family for ages. Later the girl who helped kick the man out of the shop states that he was a shape shifting alien. Then they get ambushed with shifting men. Later out of nowhere the bull saves them, he’s a turns into anything he eats. He blames the girl, he finds a boy and the mom is crazy with the security . Goes to look at the cameras with the girl, he apologized. They gave the footage to the police and the man was arrested. THE END
The invisible man ~ ellison
invisible man takes place when rasicm in america was very popular, the guy says he’s invisible. Not supernatural or biological. It’s because people don’t see him because he’s black. they are ignoring him.
Lorry raja ~ Madhuri vijay
It takes place Karnataka, poor state in India in the south. About marginalisation. Everyone is covered in red dust because they work in mines. The family: the father had an accident so he can’t work properly. The mom works in the mines. The middle son works and plays in the mines and collects a couple of rupees a day. The oldest son is a lorry driver and he exports ores and cleans everything the lorry. Baby brother is there to show how hopeless life is there. The boy is playing in dirt. The story is narrated by the middle son, he slowly through out the story grows jealous of his older brother. he also talks with the brother’s ex but she broke up with him when he became a lorry driver.
The bicentennial man ~ Isaac asimov
one robot called andrew. he joins a human family(Martin) like a personel health care companion. He is names Andrew Martin. The elder daughter of the family doesn’t like him. she orders him to jump out the window and that injures his mechanism. The father richard martin orders her to treat him as human, like part of the family. He accidently breaks a glass figurine which belongs to the little girl and he feels sad and makes the girl a similar figure out of wood. the familly is amazed because he showed creativity and emotion. richard takes andrew to the company and the owener says that hey could scrap the robot and that angered the father and they take him home and educate him about humanity.
What is ‘Bicentennial Man’ about?
A robot called Andrew who joins the Martins family as a personal health companion and maid (like baymax lol). The elder daughter of the family doesn’t like him, so she convinces him to jump out a window, of which the father responds by asking them to treat Andrew like a member of the family (human). Andrew accidentally breaks a belonging from the youngest daughter of the family and makes a replica, which brings the climax of the story: He’s got emotions and creativity! Over time they give him human parts and teach him about human society. He’s eventually kicked out because he creeps everyone else out. He later falls in love with the youngest daughter’s grand-daughter.
How does ‘Bicentennial Man’ end?
Right when the world congress accepts that Andrew is a human, and he can marry Porscha, he dies watching the news with Porscha hand-in-hand.
