Title: “The Computer Nut” Author: Betsy Byars Setting: “The Computer Nut” takes place in Kate’s small town. Overall, the different settings are in her house, in school, at a carwash, at Willie Lomax’s house, her dad’s office, a pep rally at her school’s football rally, and that’s basically where all the action takes place. Most of the time, the action takes place during the day. Towards the ending, however, most of the action takes place at night around 8 pm- 9pm. Major Characters: The main character of “The Computer Nut” is Kate. Kate is like any other kid. She is obsessed with computers, she has red hair, and she is an average middle school student. She is receiving messages from an “alien” who calls himself BB-9. Willie Lomax is the boy who helps find out who is sending Kate messages over the computer. Willie is also Kate’s crush and he is the only one who is truly willing to help Kate find out who really is sending her messages over the computer. He is around Kate’s height, chubby, he has reddish/blondish hair, and is very interested in Kate’s mystery “alien.” BB-9 is the self-proclaimed “alien comedian” who wants to come down to Earth to make people laugh, since Earth is the only planet in the universe where people laugh. He is an adult’s age and can take form as anything he wants. He was once a cow on another mission to Earth. A physical description is not available. And lastly, Linda is Kate’s best friend. She is short, has brown hair, and very humorous. Plot Summary: One day, for an art project, Kate is just drawing a picture of herself on her dad’s computer in her dad’s office. After she is all done with her self-portrait, she receives a message from a strange person who later reveals himself as BB-9. BB-9 is an alien in search of a good laugh on Earth, which he says is the only planet where people laugh. After a series of message, Kate hopes the person contacting her is her secret crush, Willie Lomax, who just so happens to know about computers. Kate is determined to find out who it is. When Kate’s best friend, Linda, finds out about the messages, she goes on and on and insists about how it HAS to be Frank Wilkins, a boy who told Kate he loved her at band camp a couple years back.
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards” (“Brainy Quotes” 1). While this epitomizes modern time, it also represents M.T. Anderson’s Feed and Pixar’s Wall-E. Feed is a book about a dystopian society influenced by a device, called “feed”, implanted in the brains of the citizens. The author describes a group of regular teenagers that venture to the moon for a spring break vacation of partying and going “in mal”. The main character, Titus, falls for a girl named Violet who is not like the other stereotypical teens in this book. Violet received the feed when she was much older and she is homeschooled so her brain is more developed. Together, they go on outrageous adventures until a hacker at a dance club causes them to lose their feeds. Unfortunately for Violet, repairing her feed was practically impossible; meaning, Violet was slowly dying. Together, Titus and Violet question society, feed, and the way of life as they create their journey in the book, Feed. In Pixar’s Wall-E, the world has been abandoned by all of humanity because of the over polluted atmosphere. However, one creature still exists on earth, a garbage-collecting robot named Wall-E. One day, a futuristic, well-developed robot arrives on earth inspecting the earth of any species of life. Wall-E falls in love with the robot, Eve, and when she returns home on her spaceship, he hops on and catches a ride to space. There, Eve and Wall-E work together to save the planet earth in a futuristic love story, Wall-E. M.T. Anderson’s Feed and Pixar’s Wall-E, exaggerate a society influenced by technology using both similar and different story lines.
The main character also known as the protagonist is Catherine. She also has two nicknames which are Birdy and Little Bird. Catherine is fourteen years old, and she hates doing her embroidery and spinning. Her physical characteristics are described as “…no beauty, being sun-browned and gray-eyed” (Cushman 5). She is also “with poor eye-sight and a stubborn disposition” (Cushman 5). In any given situation with her suitors she tries to act and look her worst. She cannot act lady-like, and doesn’t like to do any of her chores. Instead “I would rather sit in an apple tree and wonder” (Cushman 5). She is very descriptive when it comes to people and sometimes uses metaphors to compare them to other objects. She is stuck talking to her birds and sometimes Perkin. Catherine is an adventurous adolescent who is stubborn, and always arguing with her father.
The main character, Ten Lockwood, is a seventeen year old girl. Ten is a very interesting character because she thinks in numbers; she is fascinated by them. Tenley has one
6 )The plot of this book is about a 10 year old Melody Brooks who has Cerebral Palsy. She can’t move or talk but, she is the smartest kid in her class. Throughout the book she gets bullied. She tries proving herself to her classmates by
...r files. They read out loud the labels other people have put on them and in doing so they take away the power of these labels to define and hurt them. The shelter has many other people with their own lives and issues. One character has oversize glasses and the other has colorful dyed hair in a partially successful attempt to differentiate the background characters. As Apple’s pregnancy progresses they celebrate Christmas together and are planning a trip to the beach.
Connie, a fifteen year old girl who likes to go off and have fun with her friends, meet and dream about boys and the idea of a perfect life and relationship is the main target of a clever malicious stalker, a man who intends to kidnap, rape and murder her. 'She (Connie) is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire uncertain of which one represents the real her.'; (Short Stories For Students 259) Creighton writes 'Oates captures so well the viciousness, cheapness and narcissism of life for Connie and her friends who have nothing better to do than to stroll up and down a shopping center plaza looking for excitement.'; Connie is blind to the real world which surrounds her and ironically enough, it leads to her death. She opens up herself too much to life and believes nothing will ever hurt her. The music and movies she enjoys are her ideals of how her life will be for her in the future.
This story is about a young man by the name of Kevin Wendell Crumb who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. It is believed that some people with this disorder are able to take on the physical attributes of each personality they have. Kevin has 23 personalities and sees a psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Fletcher [Betty Buckley], who realizes that one of his personalities is more dominant and throughout the film begins to takes over the others. One day Kevin is compelled to abduct three teenage girls. He then keeps the girls captive and confused as each time he visits them he comes back as someone new, sometimes a 7 year old boy and others as a woman. As the girls fight to escape, Kevin fights himself as he loses the ability to control who he is.
A Character Analysis of Kate from Frances O’Roark Dowell’s The Kind of Friends We Used To Be
In the film “Her”, directed by Spike Jonze, we follow the life of Theodore Twomby, a lonely and sensitive man trying to figure out what he wants in his life. After recently separating from his wife, he is hesitant to begin another relationship. Theodore comes across an intelligent computer operating system (or OS) named Samantha. Her conscious human-like capabilities allow her to communicate with Theodore, assist him throughout his daily life, and sense his feelings. After a failed blind date, he finds comfort in Samantha’s empathizing and compassionate personality, and eventually begins to create a romantic relationship with her. As the film progresses, we can see the development of Theodore from being an isolated and sad person into a sociable,
In the film “Her”, Theodore works in a company in which he creates love letters and express the emotion of each couple where he only sees them through pictures. As Theodore gets off his work, he has the same routine of playing astronaut video games where he has to adventure through the maze like cave. There is Samantha, Theodore’s artificially operating system who lives in a computer which is designed to provide companionship. “Any person is available to become part of one’s “generalized other,” but certain individuals, by virtue of the sheer volume of time spent in interaction with someone, or by virtue of the nature of particular interactions, become more significant in the shaping of people’s values. These “significant others” become prominent
A twelve year old young lady named Jamie Kelly lives in a major house with her puppy, Stinker, and her mother and father. She goes to Mackerel Middle School. Her closest companion is eleven year old Isabella. Her unbest companion is Angeline. Jamie is compelled to compose this journal. She realizes that her past journals have been silly so she flushes them out of her head.
Jacob’s Journey Through Technology follows the adventures of Jacob, a curious boy, who finds out that his laptop is alive. Jacob and his laptop, B-Bop, explore the house and the technologies scattered within it. Throughout Jacob’s quest, he befriends other household appliances which include Sarah the Smoke Detector, Lily the Lightbulb, and Phil the Phone. As their journey progresses, Jacob learns more about different examples of technology in his own home and why they are important. As the story comes to a close, the characters find themselves in a situation, but through friendship and teamwork, they can get through it.
What defines a true computer geek? People have several different views on what a computer geek actually consists of. It is important to notice how society places certain people into this category automatically without even knowing much about them. Growing up with all sorts of television shows, most of the time there would be a nerdy character. That is how I believe my definition for a computer geek formed. Like all ideas in life, there was some kind of influence that shaped it.
When introduced in Will Boast’s short story, Coda, Tim and Kate’s relationship has already failed. The couple dated for years and got engaged, but eventually called off the engagement. As the story progresses, Tim reflects on both the merit of the relationship and the cause of its failure. After breaking into Kate’s apartment, Tim searches for and finds his old engagement ring. He gazes at the gold symbol of unending love, and then sees a picture of him and Kate beside it. “I was looking straight into the camera, but Kate was turned to me with a shy smile on her face. My favorite picture of her. You could see she was in love” (Boast 4). Even after six months of separation, Tim thirsts for his lost love. Though he recognizes the chaotic, uncooperative environment, in which the relationship was nourished. Kate is a lawyer and Tim is a musician, leading them to live, “disjointed lives, but for a long time that didn’t matter. Kate would leave the apartment at seven every morning, eager to make an impression at her new practice. At noo...
Thousands of years ago calculations were done using people’s fingers and pebbles that were found just lying around. Technology has transformed so much that today the most complicated computations are done within seconds. Human dependency on computers is increasing everyday. Just think how hard it would be to live a week without a computer. We owe the advancements of computers and other such electronic devices to the intelligence of men of the past.