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Science Fictions by Maddie Latimore (Humanity (Humanity has gone backwards…

- - - - Morlocks
        
        "Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean. There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the outcome of a long-continued underground look common in most animals that live largely in the dark - the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance. Then, those large eyes, with that capacity, are common features of nocturnal things -witness the owl and the cat. And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light", The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, pg 57 The Morlocks can only spend time in the dark; they live in caves during the day and come out at night. The Morlocks have evolved to be only able to function in the dark. They thrive best at night.
      - Eloi
        
        "I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point. The eyes were large and mild" The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, pg 28 Everything about the Eloi is very small race of people. By being described as "Dresden-china type of prettiness", it means they are very delicate and fragile in their looks, similar to they way a doll looks. They are also not very hairy, which also contributes to the Eloi as a species looking very young and childish.
    - - This is the demogorgan.
      - This is Eleven, a girl with psychokinetic abilities. She is technically human, but because of her special powers that set her apart from other humans, she is technically considered alien.
- - - - "In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back" The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, pg 67 The Morlocks are a violent species who want to attack and hurt others of their kind. The Morlocks are smart and calculating.
      - "They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy." The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, pg 32 The Eloi are young and innocent, with very short attention spans. By comparing them to children, he is reducing them to a very simple species who are capable of very little. They are not very smart either.
- - - - The Time Machine's idea of a fragile future connects the idea of knowing what will happen in the future in Story of Your Life. In Story of Your Life, because Louise learned the heptapods language, she knows exactly when and how her daughter will die, but she chooses to have her daughter anyway even though she had the knowledge to potentially save someone she could have loved by not bringing her in to existence. The situation that Louise is in, whether to have her daughter or not even though Louise knows her daughter will eventually die by falling off a cliff, shows the fragility of the future because being able to know what will happen in the future makes every move you make could effect what happens. In the case of Story of Your Life, the future is fragile because every small action in the present could effect what happens in the future, and if you already know what happens in the future, then you are constantly questioning whether or not a specific action was the cause of an event.
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  - - - In both novels, even though one is more optimistic than the other, both portray negative views of the apocalypse. Even though society is able to be rebuilt in Station Eleven, the apocalypse has destroyed what society was before, and it is unclear if society will ever get back to the advanced state it was in because everything is gone. In There Will come Soft Rains, the apocalypse has destroyed humanity and almost all technology, and there is no coming back from that because there is no one left to rebuild society.