LITR 4632: Literature of the Future

Student Future-Visions Presentation 2009

Samantha Hand

June 18, 2009

 What happens next?

 

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 I Am Legend

2007

directed by Francis Lawrence


Objective 1    

To identify, describe, and criticize standard narratives or stories humans tell about the future:

a.     Apocalyptic

 

Objective 2

To identify, describe, and criticize typical visions or scenarios of the future. 

b.     low tech; actual reality—rough, messy, real, hungry for power. 

 

  1. dystopiadysfunctional world

Brief Summary

Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms other humans into nocturnal monsters, a surviving scientist living in New York, searches for a cure.

 

Discussion Questions

 

How does romance play in the story?

 

Are their any Evolution undertones? Where?

 

Would you consider the scientist a messiah/ savior?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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