1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? I feel unnerved by this story. Being raised as breeding cattle and kept from rebellion with mind-altering eggs but a giant insect race of aliens is kind of a bleak thing to read about or imagine, no matter how unlikely it is. I also felt the sort of powerlessness and oppression that the characters in the story were feeling. In the story there was no mention of escape or revolution, just acknowledgement of the cage and the situation, and anger, but no clear way out but death. 2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss what elements of the story with which you were able to connect. I was able to connect with multiple aspects of the story. I connected with Lien’s desire not to participate in a society that leads to the oppression of her family and people, and to witness the atrocities being committed by her oppressors, while simultaneously being helpless to stop it. I connected to...
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