 The tone of the story, especially towards its end, is delivered very simplistically, in an almost child-like fashion.  This is to show that the story
The Sense of Wonder By MILTON LESSER Illustrated by HARRY ROSENBAUM [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction September 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] When nobody aboard ship remembers where it's going, how can they tell when it has arrived? Every day for a week now, Rikud had come to the viewport to watch the great changeless sweep of space. But ever since the engines somewhere in the rear of the world had changed their tone, from the steady whining Rikud had heard all twenty-five years of his life, to the sullen roar that came to his ears now, the feelings had grown. And, because he had realized this odd difference in himself, he kept it locked up inside him. The stars—it was a meaningless concept to Rikud, but that was what everyone called the bright pinpoints of light on the black backdrop in the viewport—were not apparent in the speckled profusion Rikud had always known. Instead, there was more of the blackness, and one very bright star set apart by itself in the middle of the viewport. "In five more years," the older man chided, "you'll be ready to sire children. But it came again, and each time it left him with a feeling he could not explain. I saw you here and knew it was your time, too...." Rikud knew that something which he could not explain had entered the elder man's head for a moment, but it had departed almost before Chuls knew of its existence. A hardly perceptible purple glow pervaded the air in the room of the health-rays. Rikud, for his part, wanted to get back to the viewport and watch the one new bright star. But something soft had cushioned the impact—something which had come into being just for the moment and then abruptly passed into non-being again, something which was as impalpable as air. Rikud had been stopped in this action, although there was no real authority to stop him.
 is like a fable.  It offers a moral to the story and teaches a truth about society.
 is like a fable.  It offers a moral to the story and teaches a truth about society.  is like a fairy-tale because the characters go on a magical journey, but its main purpose as a story is to decieve.  is like a ghost story.  It frightens the reader by playing on the dark and supernatural.  is like mythology because it is folklore that explains society's origins.