ONE IS ONE AND ALL ALONE

BY NICHOLAS FISK

THE PLOT
In 2045, a spaceship is heading towards planet Trion. Being the only

child onboard, Trish finds it difficult to adapt being all alone most of the time. with her in spite of his busy schedule, while her mother was away in Trion. playmate, tutor and friend. She yearns for human companionship. Me. She secretly clones her own companion in the Biolab. She calls her identical twin Clo.

Her father, the executive officer on the spaceship, tries to spend time

Trish feels lonely and bored with only VP (a VoicePrinter) as her

Through VP, Trish gets an idea on creating a clone or making another

Cont..
Initially Trish and Clo become good friends and have

fun together. Trish begins to spend less time with VP as she is occupied with Clo.
Soon Trish begins to get tired of Clo as her mannerism

which mirrors her, begins to irritate her. The breaking point is when Clo starts to refer to Trishs mum as her own. This makes Trish really angry and she plans to dispose off Clo forever through the disposal hatch system.

Cont..
The story ends with a twist when the diary entry shows

that Clo managed to turn the tables on Trish and disposed off her instead.
Clo assumes Trishs identity and succeeds in deceiving

Trishs dad as well.

Clo then reminds herself that she needs to be Trish

and enjoys her new identity and status onboard the spaceship.

ELEMENTS
SETTING

Social Setting Time: The story takes place in a spaceship which is in Orbit in 2045 and will only reach its destination, Trion in 2 years time.
Period: The era of space exploration and advancement

in computer technology enables human cloning to become reality.

CONT.. Physical Setting : Spaceship Corridor Toilet/Loo Diner Cabin Biolab Store Disposal System

THEMES
CLONING
FRIENDSHIP AND

COMPANIONSHIP LONELINESS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

VALUES

Family bonding Think before you leap Be thankful for what we have Two wrongs do not make a right

LITERARY DEVICES
POINT OF VIEW: First person
STYLE: Written as diary entry. REPETITION: To emphasize.

sick.. sick.. sick.. ( P. 44) IMAGERY IRONY

Repetition
Im sick of Me. Im sick of being the only child on the ship. Im sick of computer images and sounds (p. 44) When Clo has nothing to do, its always pick, pick, pick (p.48)
Trish repeats the word sick to emphasise her

disappointment and frustration of being the only child on board the spaceship. She repeats the word pick to show her disgust of Clos irritating picking habit.

Imagery
Rolling bits of skin around a fingernail. and They writhe and fiddle all the time. (p. 48-49 Para 1 Line 6-8) One can visualise what Clo is doing with her fingernails. One may find this an irritating habit. This obviously annoys Trish. However, Trish fails to realise that Clo is just a mirror image of herself since they are both duplicates. By reprimanding Clo, she is indirectly reprimanding herself as she has the exact same habit.

Irony
I cant stand the way Clos mind works. I cant stand Clos corny jokes, and her dismal sulks. I cant stand Clos laugh or eating habits or her finger picking (p. 52 Para 2 Line 2-4) Trish finds Clos habits irritating and it begins to annoy her. However, she fails to see that Clos habits are just a reflection of her own habits. Clo is her exact replica. Trish may have created a clone but this has brought about her own downfall.

CHARACTERS
TRISH: 11 year old girl, the only child

on the spaceship. CLO: Identical twin, created by Trish using cloning technology. TRISHS DAD VOICEPRINTER: Tutor and companion to Trish

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY ONE GUESS THE STORY DURATION: 80 minutes. MATERIALS: Worksheet 1a & 1b AIMS: To elicit students interests on the short story. To encourage students to predict the plot of the story.
STEPS: 1. Introduce the short story to students by displaying the title and the attached picture. (Worksheet 1a).

Cont..
2. Ask students to imagine the plot of the story by referring to the picture and the accompanying questions. (Worksheet 1a). 3. Ask students to write the plot in 5 sentences. (Worksheet 1b) 4. Discuss some of the plots that the students have created. 5. Ask students to refer to their answers after they have finished reading the story. 6. Draw on the students answers as the catalysts for the epilogue discussion of the story.

ACTIVITY TWO
LONELY I AM..

DURATION: 40 minutes
MATERIALS: Worksheet 3 AIMS:

To be able to identify settings of the story.

To help students comprehend the settings of the story better.

To identify Trishs moods and feelings in the story.

CONT..
STEPS:
1. Explain different types of settings. 2. Distribute worksheet.

3. Ask students to provide answers to the topic.

4. Ask students to complete the task with close reference to the text.

5. Ask students to deliver a short presentation.

ACTIVITY THREE
CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE DURATION: 40 minutes MATERIALS: 1) Worksheet 6 2) Crayon & Colour Pencils AIMS: 1. To identify the key traits of the character. 2. To help students understand the characteristics by justifying their reasons supported with contextual evidence.

CONT..
STEPS: 1. Distribute Worksheet 6. 2. Ask students to draw the chosen character from the short story. 3. Ask students to write the characters name below the illustration. 4. Instruct students to write one character trait that the character possesses in the Trait bubbles. 5. Ask students to support their character traits with textual evidence. 6. Ask students to present their findings.

ACTIVITY FOUR
THE HATCH DURATION: 40 minutes MATERIAL: Worksheet 8 AIMS: 1. To develop students creativity and imagination skills in solving a murder mystery. 2. To develop students abilities to construct sentences using the given key words. 3. To enable the students to trace out the plot of the story in a creative way.

CONT..
STEPS: 1. Introduce the crime scene to the students. 2. Ask students to play the role of a Crime Scene Investigator. 3. Explain the students role as a CSI. 4. Distribute Worksheet 8 and guides the students through the clues provided. 5. Ask students to carry out their investigation by using the clues and key words provided. 6. Ask students to write their version of the incident in a report to the Executive Officer of the spaceship.

ACTIVITY FIVE
TELL ME THE THEME DURATION: 40 minutes MATERIAL: Worksheet 11 AIM: To identify the themes in the story. STEPS: 1. Elicit the themes of the short story. 2. Ask students to support the themes with evidence from the short story. 3. Assist the students to discuss on the themes of the short story.

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