So far these past three weeks we have read many of the most influential short stories ever written. Or at least the most popular. There are thousands of different themes that people have created, usually revolving around segregation or fear. However, one theme I noticed that sure attracted my attention more that anything else was the theme of evolution. I feel as though just about every other theme ends up relating back to evolution, and that it always drops your mind off at the question of, where will we be in the future?
Think about the story of the Jim Crow laws. Wright was writing that story like everything was normal, or not that big of a deal. If that happened now it would be a terrible crime, because we have evolved out of that time period. Nearly every story was something bad happening, and we have evolved out of all of those things. However, take Harrison Bergeron for example. Everybody had mental and physical handicaps on them, if the world was like this, how would anybody evolve? Would we even have a need to evolve?
The reason I think so much about evolution is because it brings up so many different questions. It leaves me searching my mind for answers I know I do not have, yet. And most of the time you can only find them by waiting for society to evolve throughout your life. Think about where we are in today’s world, and think about where we were 50 years ago. It was a totally different time. Now think about where we will be in 50 years, who knows what fear we will have evolved out of by then
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