The Last Curiosity: Reflections
(Image generated by Gemini) “ The Last Curiosity " by Lucy Tan is about how even the most incompatible beings are capable of understanding each other. The author started the story with a setting where all humans died from self destruction. Then they decided to do an experiment and create something similar to human beings. They discovered senses such as touch, sight and taste and they started to have emotions such as loneliness, anger, and despair. At the end they decided to learn about death, the last curiosity. Some chose to die and others chose to return to the Woken. Those who chose to go back to the Woken died while the ones who chose to die, stayed alive and became more and more like a human being. The author chose a very unique first person point of view with a “we” to highlight the significant differences between the two. The setting where the story begins with all humans died from self destruction reinforces the incompatibility between the two. How the story ends also mak...
