TEXT CHOSEN:
I have chosen a text to read for my midterm: E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
DESCRIPTION/SUMMARY:
Here is what this text means to me: This text means a way of reflection when it comes to the habitual events and structures that are bound with me when it comes to the use of technology, generational cultures, and the idea of trends that are being placed.
AUDIENCE SPECULATION:
The intended audience I am imagining for my close-reading essay is: For the audience of the close reading, it is ever so present with everyone experiencing quarantine and representing isolation and its period and how the wonders can be reflected upon when looking at an overall perspective of the values that they have.
FORMAL AND GENERIC CONVENTIONS:
The 2-3 formally/generically similar texts I have discovered through research are: The generically similar texts fit in The Lorax by Dr. Seuss or the 2 B R 0 2 B story by Kurt Vonnegut both illustrating the sense of the short story format and the dystopian world that illustrates the ways that convention is being displayed. Both texts give rise to the sense of wonder when it comes to technological advancements whether it is through the Lorax of cutting down the trees with the Onceler’s factory with the garment as Thneed or in the case of 2 B R 0 2 B study the advancement of humans with indefinite life spans but at a cost through population control. The differences stem from the different aspects of the lessons of the view as the Lorax shows more positive light with the redemption of the foundation that they have broken while the 2 B R 0 2 B story has a different impact as they give an open-ended ending that is left through interpretation.
- The Lorax
https://dep.wv.gov/WWE/Programs/nonptsource/Documents/TheLorax.pdf
- 2 B R 0 2 B
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm
CONTENT:
I intend to talk about the source of technology and how it influences an environment of certain particularity. The stories tell a convention in how there is a standardization of our values, and structures of our lives that create this one-dimensional view of the world. It explores how the damage of this idealization can occur. In addition, it discusses how there are sides that go against the norm and try to change what is the standard because it won’t last long.
COURSE THEMATICS:
I think that my object intersects/overlaps with class in these ways: social relations, identity, and ambiguity
QUESTIONS:
I am struggling with/ cannot seem to figure out/ do not know how to approach the genre and the larger theme of the subject. I would like more clarification on the discourse groups. I need support with close readings.
Work Cited
2 B R 0 2 B.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Nov. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_B_R_0_2_B.
Forster, E. M. The Machine Stops – UC Davis. The Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909, https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf.
“The Lorax.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Sept. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lorax#:~:text=The%20Lorax%20is%20a%20children’s,Just%20like%20most%20Dr.
Vonnegut, Kurt. “2 B R 0 2 B.” The Project Gutenberg EBook of 2 B R 0 2 B, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm.