Author Research

Ursula K. Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut share similarities in how they write their short stories. Both writers write sci-fi and fantasy stories which often references things that are wrong in society. Le Guin often uses the environment, gender, sexuality and religion as subjects and themes in her short stories and similarly, Vonnegut also uses concepts such as socialism in his work, often including the government and people of power in his work.

On the other hand, Shirley Jackson was famous for writing horror stories, American gothic and was seen as a pro-feminist in the twentieth century. I think her stories often reflected from her own life. Such as how most protagonists in her stories would speak confidently and with wit, which was how she presented herself to society, however those character traits were just alter egos of the female protagonists in her stories to hide the fact that they are vulnerable and helpless, and Jackson herself was helpless as she suffered from anxiety and from her mother's and her husband's abuse towards her.

Although, the three writers don't really have the same style of writing or genre, all three books that I picked form the authors, I think all relate to the same theme and relay similar message. Theme's relating to society and how people often restricted of their own freedom and how people are easily persuaded by rules and standards set by society.