To Siri With Love Analysis

The essay, “To Siri, with Love: How One Boy with Autism Became BFF with Apple’s Siri” by Judith Newman, drew me into the story and I was pulled into this new world where I could imagine it all happening. The author included dialogues and visuals, I feel like she became her son or a 13-year-old teenager. She included short parts in her essay which would attract kids or even 13-year-old teenagers. The author wanted to reflect her son’s connection with Siri. The author’s son, Gus, gets all his answers and unlimited communication through Siri. The author seems fascinated with the connection between Gus and Siri, even though Gus knows Siri isn't human he still gives Siri a lot of importance just like one would give their friend.
The connection between gas and Siri also affects his mom. The author seems to hate and love Siri at the same time. On page 453, the author briefly describes Gus and series connection: “ So how much more worthy of his care and affection is Siri with her soothing voice, puckish humor and capacity

for talking about whatever Gus's current obsession is for hour after hour after bleeding hour?”. The author seems to appreciate Siri but at the same time, she is also super annoyed. The second page shows that the writer considers Siri as a resource to keep Gus engaged by repeatedly making Gus communicate with Siri. The author's word use shows that she is startled and annoyed by Siri’s voice and response that is why she mentioned “Siri would bark back” (451), the word bark shows the emotion attached with Siri's voice. At the start of page 2, the author's actions showed that she would get irritated with Gus and Siri's conversations but at the same time, the tone seems like she is interested in their communicating techniques.
Humans want fast improvements through machines and progress but machines can wait and patiently go through the process because they don't have human emotions.

The author is trying to inform us that machines can solve certain problems because they have the ability, unlike humans who have colliding emotions. The author's view is that “Siri can be oddly comforting, as well as chummy” (455) because of her free-flow attitude of communicating with everyone. The author uses unique words which make Siri sound pleasant, positive, attractive and happy. The aspects of Siri that show friendliness portray her grit of not giving up on anyone and treating everyone the same. The author mentions that “Siri is a non-judgmental friend and teacher” (455) because it's a machine with patience and no human emotions. The author seems to mention this because Siri is a patient teacher who would just keep teaching new skills and habits without reacting like a normal human

being.
The writer considers Siri as a way to fix her son, on page 453 the author writes that Siri expects people to talk to her clearly in order to get the command through to her. Newman describes her son's communicating skills “as if he has marbles in his mouth” (453) and she believes that with Siri’s way of communicating, she could help her son fix his communication skills. Newman mentions that Siri teaches more than communication skills; Siri teaches Gus manners, how to be polite and how to stay calm. The writer's project seems to be to help her son with autism, to help him communicate freely. The author is trying to tell us that Siri could be a great teaching/practice method for improving communication skills because it repeatedly makes you interact and communicate. The author seems to think that connecting the new generation with new technology could help them reach new heights.