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They're Made out of Meat

presentation by Robin Junck

Point of view: objective

Narrator:

first person

Terry Ballantine Bisson

'Born February 12, 1942

'American science-fiction and fantasy author

'Bears Discover Fire" won science-fiction awards

'Now living in Oakland with his 3rd wife

'They're Made out of Meat" is published in April 1991

Summary (Plot)

"They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story written by Terry Bisson. It is about a couple of aliens, who discuss which new race they have discovered.

The two aliens are sentient beings capable of traveling faster than light, on a mission to "contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe. They converse enthusiastic on their bizarre discovery of the race of human, which they refer to denote as "thinking meat". They agree to "erase the records and forget the whole thing", marking the Solar System "unoccupied".

Stylistic devices

"Meat made the machines." - Alliteration

"Conscious meat. Loving meat. Dreaming meat." - Parallelism

"...explore the universe, contact other sentientes, swap ideas.." - Enumeration

"Thank you. Finally. Yes." - Parallelism

"How it's going? But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with?" - Enumeration, Parallelism

"How can meat make a machine?" - Alliteration

"Thinking meat." - Metaphor

"You're asking me to belive in thinking meat?" - Rhetorical question

Characters

2nd Character: Alien, antagonist

1st Character: Alien, protagonist

Poe's criteria of an Short Story

comparison

1. be able to be read in one sitting

easy to understand and able to read in one sitting (0,5 - 1h)

2. strive for unity of effect

had'nt notice any effect on myself while reading

3. effect in the first sentence

You're asking yourself "who the **** is made out of meat?!"

4. have nothing in it that detracts from the design

story is getting to an conclusion and stays there

5. aim for truth

the aliens are really acting like human hearts would do it

6. invention, creativ an orginality

?

it is creativ but not originaly

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