Carl Sagan's Dragon In My Garage

Using stories to get a point across can be beneficial. Sometimes it may even be recommended in certain cases. For example the usage of fables can be used to teach children valuable lessons. But that’s not the case in Carl Sagan’s “Dragon in my Garage.” Trying to imitate the usage of fables, Sagan writes the tale of a dragon in his garage in order to explain some of the fallacies that people are faced with on a daily basis. But trying to teach multiple lessons through one short story can be problematic, as we see happening in Sagan’s story. Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, on the other hand, was able to get his point across effortlessly by fitting one example to each of the fallacies, rather than fitting all of the