Speculative Fiction & Poetry--Assignment 5 James Madison University

Instructions: Please type your initial commentary for submission. It should be at least a paragraph or two. Your question about either story can be handwritten or typed on the bottom/back of the same page or on another full-sized sheet of paper. Remember to include your name at the top of the assignment. Multiple pages should be stapled together.

• The prompt this time for your Initial Commentary is the following:
  Choice either story and write about what is human about the robot(s)/mechanical being(s) in the story and what is not, considering which characteristics are more highlighted in the story and also whether some human/nonhuman characteristics are presented in an evaluative way, being implicitly or explicitly judged as positive or negative characteristics of a being.