English 2071F/G Study Guide - Margaret Atwood
10 Dec 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Quotables: margaret atwood"s story homelanding reverses the traditional alien meeting narrative where humans come in contact with an alien race. Atwood inverts the narrative and attempts to describe to an alien what constitutes a. Eating becomes a process whereby food is placed in a large hole, Anything red compels us (795): atwood expands her explanation when she seeks to explain sexual difference in concrete terms. Any long object with a hole at the end, out of which various projectiles can be shot, delights them. (795) Atwood challenges the general premise that defines the narrative of the alien encounter in science fiction. Instead of the clich d demand take me to your leaders, which implies that power relations and conflict are at the heart of all alien encounters, she seeks commonalities. Instead of attempting to determine relations of power, the narrator calls for connection through an examination of sameness: Instead i will say, take me to your trees.
