Since birth the machine was all it had, babies normally look for some type of a mother figure it’s in out nature. The lack of human contact helped me understand why the humans in this story were very protective of the machine. Which dumbfounded Vashti, not because he didn’t pick it up but because it could easily happen to her and she held on to that book for protection as a catholic would hold on to a bible. I don’t think the man knew he could simply bend down and pick it up for himself instead he just left it there. For example, in page 7, when Vashti was going to visit her son she goes on the Air-ship a man drops his book, normally they would be in their rooms and the machine would simply pick up the book for them. In both pieces they forgot how to do things for themselves. I began to compare it with the Film Wall-E, the Pixar film that was created in 2008, the way the humans counted on the machines to do everything for them was very similar, when they need food it was given to them all in the push of a button. I wondered that as our generation grew older maybe we could possibly be placed in that situation, where our children who grew with technology start to resent it.Īfter the conversation with Vashti and Kuno, Forster begins to describe the honey celled room that belonged to Vashti and how everything was there for her use. While reading the conversation between Vashti and Kuno I found it amusing that the older generation was siding with the technology while the younger generation was going against the Machine. Written in 1909 this story was probably set in a futuristic world where humans have become completely dependent on machines. While reading it I couldn’t help but realize a few connections with a few films and life in today’s world.

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