How do the authors of “La Juanita” and “Sábado Gigante” use cultural settings to influence plot and theme? In your response, be sure to compare and contrast the plot and themes of both short stories, as well as the cultural settings. Use text evidence and original commentary to support your response.

As you prepare your response reflect on the following:

Intolerance refers to a person or group’s unwillingness to accept behavior or beliefs that stray from what is considered normal. How do the cultural settings of “Sábado Gigante” and “La Juanita” both have to do with intolerance?
How does this intolerance influence what happens at the end of each story?
How does this intolerance develop a theme in each story? How are these themes different?

Read the excerpt from the code book. without much hope of a theoretical breakthrough, cryptanalysts have been forced to look for a technological innovation. if there is no obvious way to reduce the number of steps required for factoring, then cryptanalysts need a technology that will perform these steps more quickly. silicon chips will continue to get faster as the years pass, doubling in speed roughly every eighteen months, but this is not enough to make a real impact on the speed of factoring—cryptanalysts require a technology that is billions of times faster than current computers. consequently, cryptanalysts are looking toward a radically new form of computer, the quantum computer. if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with such enormous speed that it would make a modern supercomputer look like a broken abacus. the author’s purpose in this paragraph is to convince the readers to pursue a career in analysis. explain the need for faster technology in cryptanalysis. entertain with interesting stories about supercomputers. argue for more money to develop a quantum computer.