Alice Munro's short story, " Boys and Girls ", is about a young girl living on a fox farm in Canada, post World War II. Over the course of two years in the story, the unnamed narrator who is the young girl has society's unwritten rules pressed upon her. ... opportunity at life. She does not fear the death of animals as a child, as an adult she is willing to accept sickly, unwanted animals into her home. However, after an animal dies in her adulthood, she always adopts another needy pet. This is a trend continued on from childhood. After she witnesses the death of the horse, Mack, she immedia...

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The novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953 not long after World War II had ended. Bradbury had written a short story about Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 in 1951. Bradbury used this novel that was written as a science fiction to criticize the society of his time, and ... spends all of her time with her "relatives" which are the people on her programs. In the years before Bradbury wrote his novel influential social criticisms via fiction as Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 and Skinner's Walden Two were published. These novels gave way for Bradbury ...

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... story of a young woman going through life as this new generation see it, but how older writers may not have told it. George Orwell, who wrote the books "1984" and "Animal Farm" is a good example of an author who used his books to criticize an aspect of society and put across his opinions. J. B. Priestly wrote "An Inspector Calls", a play which shows the ... as he saw it. Of course it is not just novels and plays that are used to educate and put across views. It is also very common for poetry and short pieces of prose to present ideas for a better society. A good example is "Desiderata" ...

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