In the three sci-fi texts, I read “Autumntime” by Anthony Lentini, “Examination Day” by Henry Lesar, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. These all shared a common theme of how the government can only control things if everything is the same. The short story “Autumntime” shows how only the government can control people in the future if everyone is the same by showing a family who lives in a time without real trees and the only real one that is left is protected by this museum. This shows how the government can only control the way of life by keeping the trees the same and not letting people have real trees, corrupting nature. The second short story “Examination Day” also shares the same theme by explaining that on a boy's 12th birthday,
