As I was reading "The Culling" by Steven Dos Santos, I started to realize page by page that this was very similar to "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins but with a twist. The pages I read showed many human emotion in the sense that many emotions where being felt in just those 97 pages. I did sense a lot of desperation and also a lot of post apocalyptic elements into the story. I also realized that there is a sense of status in this book; a hierarchy. Similar to "The Hunger Games" there are the rich, who did not have to fight to the deaths to stay alive, and there are the poor who do have to fight. I am super excited to read the rest and see what happens to Digory and Lucky.
I think "Reason" by Isaac Asimov shows a very clear example as to why robots are dangerous, hahaha. But on a serious note, the theme in this story has been used throughout time in the movie scene. There have been many movies of robots being built by their "master" then going haywire after sometime realizing they should no longer obey human command and do what they want to do.I think Asimov gave the robot feelings on purpose. He could have just made a sci-fi story about robots and humans in space and not have the robot do what it does in the story. It gives the robots a human element and makes it a tad relatable to people who stray from their path or people who cause rebellion.
"Super-Toys last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldriss is very interesting for its time. Written in 1969 about a boy who starts to question whether he is real or not in this day and age of synthetic life form. It was sad for me in someway knowing (or assuming) that the mother of this boy may not even love him because he is not "real". I got to that conclusion (I may be wrong) because of the lack and difficulty of communication between mother and son. She is not a cruel mother but she tends to find it hard to love David and David tends to find hard what to express to her, which is very frustrating for both in the end.
I was totally fooled by the story. I thought the boy was real the entire time, which made the dynamic between him and his mother all the more tragic. i think the writer did a pretty good job distracting the readers with the robotic bear. Why give a robot boy a robot bear to keep him company?
ReplyDeleteDoes a robotic boy need a robotic toy? Ryan's right; it is a good distraction from the reader looking to closely at David.
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