The Invisible Boy

Wouldn't you love the power to be invisible? In the invisible boy there is a child that is staying with a hermit. The only way for the hermit to the boy out of hiding is by teaching him a spell of some sort. The spell that he agrees on is a spell that makes him invisible. When he finally thinks he is invisible he trys to hide from the hermit again but he is not really invisible because the hermit wanted to keep a close eye on him. It took the child a very long time to realize that the whole time he was not invisible and it was just a trick. Eventual the hermit did make him invisible for real.

This story to me is kind of like a scam and scams happen in real life all the time. Last year there were over 45,000 major scams and innumerable smaller scams in the U.S. I say this story is like a scam because she lied to him and he did not notice that she lied to him.

All Summer In A Day

Wouldn't you just hate to be thrown into a closet on your only day to see the sun in seven years? Well in the book "All Summer In A Day" the people lived on and in the planet Venus because of the substantial amounts of rain hitting the surface of Venus. On the planet Venus the sun only came out once every seven years. Since the sun comes out once every seven years so most of the class doesn't remember the last time they saw the sun. The girl that does remember the sun from when she came from Earth got thrown into the closet right as the sun was about to come out because no one would believe her that the sun was going to come out on that day.

This story relates to real life events in Seattle Washington. I say this because in Seattle during winter time there can be days of just frigid rain where you might not see the sun for days. In a place like this there could easily be a child that is being punished during a short break from the rain and might miss the sun light.

The Gift

Wouldn't it be cool to travel into space like in the gift? In the gift the people loaded onto the shuttle to mars just like the average day plane. In this Sci-Fi story Ray Bradbury makes it to where the characters can travel to a distant planet in a short matter of time compared to the time that it takes to get probe On this space ship the boy could not bring his present because it weighed to much just like the average weight requirement that planes have so they are not weighed down too much.

Today many rockets can not hold many people or much supplies. And to take off from a terminal is unheard of because with all the force coming from the engine the rocket wold probably blow out all the windows in the whole terminal. The good news for space flight is that NASA is trying to design a shuttle like vehicle that can transport people and supplies to the international space station.

The Veldt

Do you really think that kids and parents should depend on a smart house as much as the characters in the Veldt? In the book, the house that the Characters lived in was so smart that that the children didn't need they're parents any more because the house did every thing for them. In real life if I had a house like this I probably would not need my parents either but I would still have a good relationship with them and not kill them just because they took a privilege away.

Today technology is very good so people are starting to use smart houses more and more. Today you can even call your home ahead of time and it will turn off lights that you accidentaly left on or close and open curtains. Smart houses are controlled by a central circuit board. There are monitors that monitor the house at all times.