Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: If the narrator of this story is introducing us to his
world, how does he want us to see it? What kind of world does he think he lives
in? What clues tell us the narrator (and the author’s) true feelings about “the
future”?
Q2: When trying to figure out why Caspar has been targeted
by mediaterrorism, his friend explains, “Computers don’t need
explanations...Computers just do what they do” (270). What might this suggest
is the greatest threat in an increasingly automated, technological
civilization? (and why should we be afraid ourselves?)
Q3: What do you think was the point of the mediaterrorism
campaign against Caspar? Was it trying to make him more aware of the world
outside his creature comforts? Was he really responsible, in some way, for the
terrors inflicted in the FRF? Or is there another explanation for targeting
him?
Q4: At a few points in the story, Caspar learns to
appreciate the silence of trees. As he remarks, “Only here I can be at peace,
amid the indifferent, ignorant trees. They don’t recognize me, trees. They don’t
care” (279). Besides not showing him images of violence, why do trees become an
important symbol in this story? Note that the story ends with a vision of
metaphorical trees of data.
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