Short Story Exam 2 o Plot Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut Sci fi Billy the Poet goes after hostesses in Ethical Suicide Parlors to have sex with them The government makes people take pills to make sex non pleasurable and set up voluntary suicide in parlors Hostesses are scared of Billy Nancy get a letter which contains a dirty song Nancy is waiting for Foxy Grandpa to pick his last meal from Howard Johnson next door and he looks his age unlike most people who took anti aging shots Tells her the story of J Edgar Nation inventor of the birth control to control the sexual behavior of monkeys at the zoo Nancy now receives a dirty phone call the police track it and attack the man thinking it is Billy Foxy Grandpa reveals he is actually Billy and forces her into a sewer to wait for her birth control to wear off in 8 hours He rapes her without the intend of hurting her in Kennedy s old yacht with champagne that is illegal She is left angry with a poem that his grandfather read to his bride and a bottle of birth control pills to avoid getting pregnant without dulling her sex drive The pills are labeled Welcome to the Monkey House Morals birth control as a concern for population or saw the danger in sex only for pleasure o Theme Government control Technology Gender Authority o Characters Pete Crocker sheriff of Barnstable County Nancy McLuhan Hostess needs to be a virgin at least six feet tall and experts in judo and karate She is 63 years old Mary Kraft hostess Billy the Poet nothinghead which means he has not been taking his ethical birth control pills and enjoys sex Foxy Grandpa Federal Ethical Suicide Parlor in Hyannis Massachusetts o Setting o Conflict Billy wants to break the law to have sex and show people that it can be pleasurable o Author makes poet the hero even though he rapes Nancy o Virgin whore dichotomy this is false when women are either virgins or whores o Monkey house agency do what you want when you want think they are getting it from Billy The Girl Who Was Plugged In James Tiptree Jr Sci Fi o Plot Everything in society are controlled by corporate interests and everything is market through celebrities known as gods A disfigured girl suffers from pituitary dystrophy encounters a god and attempts to commit suicide in public This is a huge crime and is woken up in a hospital She accepts working for a representative of GTX where she is given a remote control to a perfect body She is to advertise product in public since advertising is illegal Delphi remote control girl falls in love with Paul who demands that her implants be removed and inadvertently kills the girl who is really in love with him Cybernetics cycle between corporations like GTX and consumers Neither GTX nor the public have all the power GTX has the power to influence what the public sees as desirable Personal identity Burke lives two lives the perfect Delphi and o Theme herself Technology grow bodies from nothing Gender and authority o Characters P Burke girl who attempts suicide able to cast her ugly self and become a god in society Delphi remote that is controlled by P Burke Paul son of high ranking company manager Delphi s lover Joe supervised the technical part of P Burke s training to control Delphi Mr Cantle fatherly figure who oversees and controls the actions of Delphi o Setting o Conflict The future o About feminine agency o Didacticism teaching Bloodchild Octavia Butler Sci Fi o Plot P Burke with seeing that she is not really Delphi Creature T Gatoi is with a family of Terrans A n tlie is hurt so Gan kills an animal so the worms can eat the animal instead of the n tlie The Tilec need the Terrans to reproduce just as the terrans need the tilec o Theme Coming of Age the protagonist s loss of innocence and his accession to an adult role of knowledge and responsibility Reversal of gender roles male pregnancy What if we were not the dominant species o Characters Gan narrator male T Gatoi born from Gan s dad Lien Grew up with T Gatoi Promised a child to her Lomas n tlie hurt Qui Gan s brother A place not on Earth o Setting o Conflict o Genre T Gatoi needs someone to reproduce with but the children are scared Lomas is hurt and needs help Sci fi takes place not on earth o Intentional fallacy readers can read this as a story about slavery even if the author says it is not about slavery Loulou or the Domestic Life of the Language Margaret Atwood Feminism o Plot Loulou is a potter who lives with several poets who she financially supports She goes to an accountant for income taxes but also seduces her and still feels unfulfilled She goes home to the poets and realizes she is fine with her situation o Theme o Characters Identity how the poets view Loulou vs how the accountant views her Care she takes care of the poets financially Exploitation Loulou potter supports group of poets predictable Poets live off Loulou make little money Bob 1st husband Loulou completes him Phil lived with her for 3 years without marriage Calvin current husband talking about money is a waste of time Second husband Two ex lovers Accountant views Loulou differently because she is an artist o Conflict Internal conflict of man vs man identity and masculine conflicts o 3rd person narrator free indirect discourse o Feminist literature I Stand Here Ironing Tillie Olsen Realism o Plot The narrator wants to have a life with Emily but she is stuck financially and socially Narrator irons while on the phone with someone who sounds like a counselor talking about Emily Emily was left to the care of her neighbors her father s family and day care Emily was sick with the measles and tuberculosis and sent to a home Emily also has a talent for comedy and acting Non linear plot The unspoken burdens of motherhood shows the harsh realities that being a mother can contain Guilt and regret the mother unable to improve Emily s fortunes in life Emily feels this through how she is treated by her mother compared to her other siblings Narrator mother unnamed role and identity are the same Emily narrator s first daughter focal character Ronnie Emily s younger stepbrother Represents fresh start Susan Emily s younger step sister represents ideal child and hope of the future During the Great Depression Mother is struggling to make ends meet when her daughter is o Theme o Characters o Setting o Conflict born o Plot The narrator is broken up with and takes pills Ends up driving into a tree so he is placed in a medical care for 72 hours Baker Act Readers see