5. What is the theme of the story "The Wretched and the

Beautiful"?

It is about the complicity and smallness of human beings.

Explanation:

It deals with refugees. The refugees are the aliens who have crashed among the humans in a holiday. Te humans are scared of them but the aliens say it was due to the 'Cleaning Operation' in their home system. The aliens have too many limbs and they move oddly from place to place. The politicians decide to split the aliens and put them in the poorest countries without having any concern for them. Then few aliens who were more beautiful than humans come and take the aliens away. The people feel wretched are taken away by the beautiful.