Science Fiction In Unbreakable By M. Night Shyamalan

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“Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain,” -Julian May. You can imagine the impossible with science fiction, you can go anywhere. Science fiction allows you to do anything or create something that seems impossible, but when you stop thinking about what could be you stop science fiction. Science fiction is fiction based on anything that is pretty much out of this world or seems to be. For example, it could be about time travel, life on other planets, technologic advancements, and etc. I have learned a lot of writing techniques about science fiction in Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, and World War Z by Max Brooks. The first science fiction piece that we observed was the movie Unbreakable written by M. Night Shyamalan. In Unbreakable one man, David Dunne, is in a train wreck that killed everyone else on board, but he was left unharmed, not a single …show more content…

One thing that I learned from analyzing different types of science fiction is that you can state anything that might not seem possible, but it wouldn’t matter. Science fiction doesn’t have to be something blown out of proportion, it can be something that is real or maybe even a form of history. “Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently,” -Samuel R. Delany. This states that science fiction indicates thinking about how things would work if this were to happen or this, but isn’t always thought out to be about what lies out in the world. Science fiction gives you the opportunity to think of what could

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