Write an introduction and an epilogue to Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" for a reader who is unfamiliar with science fiction and does not take the genre seriously. Your introduction will explain the purpose of science fiction in general and use figurative language to make science fiction easier to understand or to prepare the reader for some of the ideas and situations in the story. The epilogue will consist of a formal, objective summary of the story to clear up any confusion about what happened. In either the introduction or the epilogue, discuss at least two major themes in the story to help the reader understand how science fiction can engage with important ideas.

she is outspoken and direct

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.

b. the poet identifies with private people.

    in the stanza, dickinson states she doesn't wish to seek fame and recognition from the public eye. nor is she afraid of authority figures, and you can definitely tell she isn't hiding something. more as she identifies with private people, who are not known by the community