The Man of Destiny

The story under the title The Fun They Had was written by a highly prolific Ameri seat writer, unrivalled of the three peremptory masters of science fiction Isaac Asimov. The theme is probably the influence of engine room on the process of precept. The story is kind of utopian story, barely from the post of the children who are the main characters of the story, it is a dystopia, since they thought there was so much(prenominal) more fun back in the days when there were classrooms but the whole story circles around the theme of technology and how children in this rendering of the future and how children today interact with that.The key in this schoolbook is lyrical, and the autobiography here is interwinding with the direct speech and the dialogues. To put up that the mood is lyrical allows look at the descriptions of one of the main characters feelings related to her mechanical teacher. The author uses colloquial speech and jargonized words, such as gee, I guess, I betch a here, to show us that these children are rather ordinary, and looks standardised as the children of our get on. The text could be divided into three logical parts. The commencement exercise part of the story begins with the description of two kids who found a objective leger.It was a little discovery, the girl even wrote about it that night in her diary It should be noted that all the events of the story take present in the future, in the year 2155, thats why a mere book from the past findms quite an interesting object for exploration. And, our heroes, Tommy (13) with Margie (11) read the book, entailing of those who utilize it many centuries ago. The author uses in this story such feature as summiting out the words by using the italic font. He emphasizes the words, to defy us feel deeper and pay extra attention to the very phrase. Margies gramps once said that when he was a little boyhisgrandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper as we read this the, we understand that from the point of view of these children it was very-very long ago. From the dialogue of the children we put through that they relationship is a friendship. Of course, the author could not avoid from inventing new terms, such as telebook. The second part begins with the picture of the teaching process in the far 2157.From the very beginning of the part, we see the Margies feelings to the schooling process. Her locating to the mechanical teacher leaves much to be desired. Reading the story we father across the problem, tackled by the author. It is a low knowledge level of children, and their uneagerness to study. To prove it we should mention the fact when the County Inspector slowed up Margies mechanical teacher to an ordinary ten-year level. The girl was 11, but she couldnt or didnt want to cover her own age level, she had been doing worse and worse.And how strong was her hatred towards school She hoped her teacher wouldnt be back, that l arge and black and ugly teacher The part she hated around was the slot where she had to put homework and test papers. This sentence indicates at her creation a usual girl with a usual nature, while this is the take away thing commonly disliked at schools. The third part of the text is the speculation of these children about the teaching process Centuries ago. They argue whether the die teacher better than the mechanical one, or not could the living one be smarter than the machine etc.The narrator lets us see the criticism of this young person girl, she could not believe that the human can teach as trusty as the machine. The key in this part is rather emotional, we can see this in the dialogue of our story-heroes. The author uses such colloquies as surehe is, I betcha and again points out the admiration of Tom a prescribed teacher This story, written by I. Asimov makes the reader to think about the teaching process nowadays. If we remember that it was written in the middle of the 20th century, we can say that the details in this story are well chosen.I think that it has a certain purpose to warn the reader about the affirmable future problems, because the era of Internet and wide spread of the computers has certain electrical shock on our generation. Of course the mechanical, or computer teachers is the ideal solution for replication the very clever people, the caste of self-made people, but from the other point of view, these people wouldnt be so social, and would expect certain problems in communication with other ordinary people. So, it is for us to decide, which way of education is better.