Today, since Mr. Rivers was not in class, we did an individual assignment in order to establish a relationship between the pieces of literature were focusing on. We read an article called Climate Fiction- Can Books Save the Planet?. The article discusses the fact that with evolving generations, Climate-fiction, or Cli-Fi, is becoming a big aspect of movies and televisions series, today. The article mentions that cli-fi is quickly becoming a topic that is appreciated and favored by high-school and college students. The text states "The Tyndall Centre study also indicated that placing climate change in a fictional context might reduce the urgency readers feel about the issue in reality, or simply reduce it to a vague concern with no practical remedy" (Ullrich). This quote exhibits the main reason as to why this type of literature is so important now and how it hopes to change the outlooks of its audiences. After reading the article, we had to apply the context of it to questions about Wall-E and then to our book Ready Player One. The first question asks "How does Wall-E fit into the category?", the next one asks "how does Ready Player One?", and the last one asks "Why does ullrich think these texts are important?".
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/climate-fiction-margaret-atwood-literature/400112/
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