For your first blog post due Feb 1, your job is to read two short essays by Ursula K. LeGuin. You can find the readings on the right-hand side of the website.
DO NOT use ChatGPT or another such program to complete this assignment.
Read the essay carefully, taking notes on key concepts, arguments, and examples presented by Le Guin in each essay.
Write two paragraphs in response to these essays, one for each.
For each essay, identify what you believe are her main arguments and what she finds to be most important. How do these essays help your frame of mind for approaching the work we’ll be doing in this class?
These are due by 11:59 p.m. Thursday night.
The first short essay “American SF And The Other” by Ursula K. LeGuin, talks about how women are overlooked in SF and other stores. Women for the most part already have a certain way they will act, behave or they will just be completely ignored. There are also aliens, different type of aliens. some type of aliens that are talked about in this essay is “Sexual aliens, social aliens, racial alien, etc.” these mostly depend on who’s writing the SF but for the most part they will all be classed as non important and/or not recognized. There for people who watch and read SF should change the way they think about women and etc.
In the second essay “What Is Science Fiction” also written by Ursula K. LeGuin is about her novel “The Left Hand Of Darkness”. she’s trying to change how people look and imagine SF cause for the most part People who don’t read SF most think of one thing when thinking about SF. That one thing is “Escapist, Depressing, Carcinogenic” and this novel is completely different and she’s trying to change how SF is mostly seen as. she wants the SF characters to have a better image than what they have. Therefore these two essays will help me see better image on what we will be doing in class by changing the way we see things in SF and changing how characters are written I’m assuming we will try to see the characters we don’t see often in SF.