Take-home short write

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• Choose one of the following statements. Identify the speaker, explain what the statement means, first in terms of the movie, then compare to your novel. Finally, articulate the significance for our lives.
  • "We never free a mind once it has reached a certain stage."
  • "Residual self-image"
  • "We lacked the language to describe utopia."
  • "Never send a human to do an AI's job."
  • "Welcome to the desert of the real."
  • "The matrix cannot tell you who you are."
  • "Most people are not ready to be unplugged."

• Evaluate your novel. What is that future society like: the values and beliefs? How is that society similar or different from society in The Matrix or Idiocracy? How do the novels and movies deal with issues that you see occurring today?

• Focus on a particular theme or character from the novel you read. Show how either reflects (or doesn't reflect) Le Guin's assertion about what science fiction does.