The Machine By Vashti Trend

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Claim and Support: The story The Machine, tells of a future where humans are completely dependent on technology. Every human inside the earth, because the human race no longer inhabits the surface, lives off of this one technological mainframe called the machine. The machine supports all life during this day and age forcing every human to rely on it. To support this claim I would find a source that indicates the vast amount of technological advancements over the past decade, and another source showing the amount each human uses technology on the daily versus anything else they could do that day. For example, the New York Times states that humans spend 47 percent of their day on technology instead of any other activities.
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The entire short story is based upon this giant machine that runs the new world and has control of every person’s jail cell like home. The jail like cell home is similar to the smart houses being built today because by command the smart house will fix the temperature, turn on the alarm system, etc. The cell blocks as home’s also represents that technology is entrapping us and slowly putting humans into this metaphorical jail. “Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere - buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button.” (Forster) The machine gave humans everything we needed to live in an attempt to keep humans distracted from the simple fact that the human race was no longer living but merely alive. The human race continually invents items to make us lazier, and the lazier humans get, the more likely we will be sent down this path of living alone in a …show more content…

The first sub-conflict is when Kuno calls his mother asking her to visit and she continually denies him this pleasure leading to him ignoring her until she gives in. The mother finally leaves her cell and goes to visit her son on the other side of the world, where she finds out he has been sentenced to death. Kuno attempts to warn his mother that the world is still a safe place and that they no longer need to live based off the machine; however, the mother is too stubborn to believe such a place exists. Time passes and the mother has gone back to her cubical of a home where one day something terrible happens. Years and years of effort were attempted by Kuno warning his mother of a day where the machine no longer worked and Vashti never believed until the day itself came. The story ends with everyone in this technological dependent world dying, but Kuno found a long lost society while above ground that was in the hiding until this technological world ended because they had no faith in it either. The short story leaves the reader hanging as to what truly happens, but the reader can pray and analyze that the human race will walk the Earth again. The scenario displayed in this reading is man vs. technology, technology is giving every reason for man to stick by its side forever; but technology if kept on the path the author provides will lead to a dark, gloomy day on

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