27/02/19

I had math for first and second period, so I just stayed in class for recess, so I had a full 3 hours straight of math. I've said this before, but since we have a new book, there's a lot of mistakes and such. Today, we realized that the advanced book that we have has questions on the level of extension 2. So that means that the questions are ridiculously hard for our level. And if the advanced book is that hard, how hard is the extension 1 book going to be?

I have to write my short story draft by Friday, so I'm going to start it now. For now, I've got the setting and the character, but I need to create a conflict and event. Since it's only around 500 words, I can only really make 1 event happen. So the setting is a cyberpunk world where society is split up into people who have physical modifications, referred to as 'modded' and people who can't afford them, 'unmodded'(for now). There's discrimination against the unmodded, and the main character isn't so much for that. It's not about the discrimination or about his own sense of justice, but rather a questioning of humanity itself. It's about if humans that act more superior because they are stronger in a way to another human is an inhuman thing to do. Of course, there are people who say things like "Survival of the fittest" and "The strong eat the weak" or whatever, but those are the rules of nature. We, as a community that defies the rules of nature and wildlife, cannot and should not be subject to those concepts. 

I think that that is a solid foundation of the story, but I can't really think of an event that will be interesting. I was thinking of something like he witnesses discrimination and goes to stop it or whatever but that just sounds cliche and boring, so I'm thinking of something on a larger scale. Maybe he does something like give hope to the unmodded. I just had an idea. Let's say that unmodded people are depressed because they will never be as good or strong as the modded. But if someone who is seemingly unmodded bests someone who is modded, they'll have a bit of hope and start trying, thus breaking the illusion that modded is objectively better. Due to that, the discrimination stops, and the society now live in cooperation of modded and unmodded people.