The Valpo Core Reader
 

Title

To Be an Alien (1985)

Document Type

Definition Essay

Publication Date

1985

Excerpt

Close your eyes. Now, picture an alien. What do you see? Some people may see a dirty, uneducated young Mexican who has sneaked across the American border and now lives in an abandoned building in a New York slum, hiding from the Immigration officials who wil I return him to his own country. Other people may see a green and yellow creature who has travel led to Earth for a vacation and beams up unsuspecting farmers and moonshiners as souvenirs of his trip...or as test subjects for torturous experiments in preparation for the holocaust predicted by H.G. Wells.

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