“The Fun They Had” is set forwards into the future in a dystopian society in which children have a robot teach them from home instead of going to school. The setting of the story has a major impact on the power of the meaning because one of the primary points is that the public education system is so vital to the growth and experience of a child. The characters in the story wish they could have gone to school and ponder about how much fun it would be. Not only do we have to learn course and subject materials, but also learn about human social interactions when meeting new people as we do at school. Without it, we would miss out on so many memories and experiences and our childhoods wouldn’t be the same. By setting the story in the future with kids who have never had these experiences, the author further impacts the readers and reaches her point.
