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Ursula K. Le Guin wrote "The Shobies' Story", a short fiction novella, in 1990.

Plot Summary
Nadines part!

Style
The shobies story could be classified as a realistic story in the sense that anyone can place themselves in the story or the events that take place. the story can correlate to real life by the family values that the characters have. Ursual Le Guin also show cultures coming together to work and live and overcoming the struggles that take place. There is also a realistic way Ursula Le Guin lets you see how the characters perceive others and their events. in the real world people perceive events differently and believe it to be true as others perceive the same events different and also to be true.

Themes
The shobies story has a few themes in the story such as space travel, time measurement, cultural, and perception. the shoby story is based on a crew of ten people traveling to test an experiment that transilent may be an element or agent of transilence p733. cultural is a factor since the crew are from different places. Tai, betton, and Shan are from Terra, Gveter is from Anarres and some of the crew are Hainish-chiffewarian p733. There is a cultural dominance in the sense that each one believes they know what is best for the crew members aboard the ship. Another theme of the story deals with time measurement and how lone the trip will take and when or if the shoby ship will return to the Ve in 4-6 hundred years. The story mostly deals with perception or how the characters take in the events that occur. each event has different meaning to different characters like oreth a child seeing a brown planet and Asten another child not seeing the brown planet and saying that there isnt anything p.737.

Characters

 * Sweet Today-


 * Terran Lidi-


 * Gveter-


 * Karth-


 * Oreth-


 * Asten-


 * Rig-


 * Tai-


 * Betton-


 * Shan-