Assignment title: Information
"Desertion" (Clifford Simak, 1944) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction)
Waiting for Towser, Fowler flexed the muscles of his body, amazed at the smooth, sleek strength he found.
Not a bad body, he decided, and grimaced at remembering how he had pitied the Lopers when he glimpsed them through
the television screen.
For it had been hard to imagine a living organism based upon ammonia and hydrogen rather than upon water and oxygen,
hard to believe that such a form of life could know the same quick thrill of life that humankind could know. Hard to
conceive of life out in the soupy maelstrom that was Jupiter, not knowing, of course, that through Jovian eyes it was
no soupy maelstrom at all. (185)
Using the paragraph above, produce a literary analysis of 1000 words.The assignment isn't about how you felt when you read
the story nor whether the events could happen in the real world. Rather, the assignment is an analysis of how the chosen
passage connects to what you critically perceive as a theme of the whole story. So, how are the issues you see being
addressed in this specific passage representative of issues that are being explored in the whole story? What other moments
in the story support that analysis? Be careful you do not simply re-tell the events leading up to the passage; rather,
analyze how the scene is a key element for a thematic concern the narrative is exploring on a larger scale.
Direct quotes from the stories must be used to provide evidence for your paper