My Choice - Melissa Marazzi

In class, we were talking about how in the movie, one of the characters says that “we read to know that we are not alone.” I can really relate to this maxim. I think one of the best things about reading a novel is when you are able to be drawn into it because of something that you related to. If we were unable to relate to the story we are reading, there would really be no sense in reading the novel in the first place. I believe that it must be quite the difficult task to write a science fiction piece. Science fiction for the most part is un-relatable – only so many people have been in space. Lewis is a master at this, however. He incorporates the best aspects that humans can connect to into his stories – such as the various human emotions that Ransom encounters when traveling to Malacandra. Being able to relate the story at hand makes the reader more focused and able to notice the details of the story; symbolism seems easier to pick on as well.