Talk:It's a Good Life

Political correctness
How has the story been used to illustrate the chilling effect of politically correct speech?
 * you mean the kind of speech where you have to treat people fairly? that's evil! Totnesmartin 19:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well I think that the anonymous person meant when people take it too far - when you try to never say anything negative about anyone out of fear, rather than true feelings. Not just avoiding racial slurs and the like, I mean (although I've heard the argument that forced political correctness is what causes things like that Kramer guy's outburst -trying to hide the feelings or some such).  -Elizabennet | talk 20:20, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I wanted to own that kid SO BAD!

I thought it was a parable about Soviet communism - having to control what you think, and there being a shortage of everything. Totnesmartin 20:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

To me it illustrated the horror of power without responsiblity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.25.144.163 (talk) 06:33, 11 April 2013 (UTC) Article talk pages are for discussing improvements to their associated articles, not for general discussion of the topic. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 11:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Anthony's age in the story
For the final time, in Bixby's published short story, Anthony is THREE years of age. It mentions it in the fourth or fifth paragraph from the end. Sir Rhosis 02:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * God, why don't people check discussion before making ignorant changes. I have reverted "six" back to "three" more times than I can count.  Finally, put a <-- --> warning in there.  Sir Rhosis 00:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I just had a similar discuss on stackexchange. I used this quote (the paragraph mentioned above):


 * "It did no good to wonder where they were ... no good at all. Peaksville was just someplace. Someplace away from the world. It was wherever it had been since that day three years ago when Anthony had crept from her womb and old Doc Bates - God rest him - had screamed and dropped him and tried to kill him, and Anthony had whined and done the thing. He had taken the village someplace. Or had destroyed the world and left only the village, nobody knew which."


 * Carmody (talk) 10:03, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

The Cornfield
Someone called this the "mystical cornfield" and said that things "never return" -- and I suppose that in the TZ episode, it might have been a euphemism for non-existence or limbo. But in the short story, it was literally the Fremont family's cornfield, and there's no reason to presume that Anthony couldn't bring something back. (He did resurrect Sam Kent, though it's unclear whether he was in the cornfield or a more conventional graveyard.) Joule36e5 (talk) 20:14, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Stub
This article might only be a stub, but it doesn't matter. It's a Good Article. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 20:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It's good that you posted that. Real good.  Sir Rhosis (talk) 23:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)