Connections

• Look at movies like E.T., t.v. shows like the X files, comic books
  and sci fi novels to see how strangers from other planets are portrayed
  and how people react to them.
  
  
• Can you make a connection between the behaviour of
  these fictional folks to aliens and the reactions
  of people you know to "foreigners"?
  
  
• What does the title "alienation" mean?
  
  
• Rewrite the story with a new, instead of violent, approach to the "aliens."
  
  
• Try writing a story, play, speech or essay under the title:
  "You look at me and you see a monster."

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