Talk:Unaccompanied Sonata

Summary needed
Okay so you’re kicking around Wikipedia and you come across this article and think, “Hey this article doesn’t even have a plot summary. I think I’ll recommend that this short story be merged with the short story collection it came from.” Well that is not a good idea for a two very good reasons. First of all, Orson Scott Card published most of his short stories in two or three different anthologies so that an attempt at combining his stories with their collections would result in multiple listings. The second reason is that Card’s biggest collection Maps in a Mirror contains 46 short stories and more than half of them have fairly long articles about them which include plot summaries, connections to other stories, critical reception, publication history, book covers etc. The problem is that if all these stories were merged into Maps in a Mirror it would result in an article that is about three miles long.

So… If you want to help, try doing something constructive with your time like writing a summary for this story. Pmcalduff (talk) 06:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

"He is ejected from Eden, so to speak, and the rest of the story is a downward spiral as the protagonist works increasingly hard to make music while his nemesis works equally hard to remove that possibility. The material is music, but thematically the story is more about a fascist state's repression of its citizens and the power imbued in the human spirit by simple acts of defiance"

I'm going to remove this passage, because almost none of it is supported textually, or if it is supported, is not a plot summary. Feel free to revert my changes, or even to rewrite it/source it if you have a better idea. Thanks!

71.90.103.239 (talk) 15:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)