Reading Assignment

Reading Assignment Date of Origin     

Q1: Rezza is fearful that the guards will take Snake the dogbot if "they found out he was programmed to think and talk" (p.5) What message is the author conveying about the way this society operates?

A1:The Author is saying It's a cruel society.

Q2: What questions can you raise about an authority that separates families for political purposes? Are there any text-to-world connections you can make to this through research?

A2:If there is a war families might be separated.

Q3: Rezza felt left out as she watched Boyd and Kesai go off to the meeting of the Unattached who are nearing their Date of Origin. (p.42) What connections can you make to her feelings? Why do you think the author includes this incident?

A3:I remember when I no one let me play with them it was horrible.

Chapters 5-6

Q4: What connections do you think the author wants you to make to phrases such as 'herded into transit wagons and transported to camps'? (p.46) What underlying message is the author conveying in this situation?

A4:It's like slave trading

Chapters 7-10

Q5: Will talks to the elders about how, "Tomorrow's going to be... a perfect day for the big party." (p.91) What makes Rezza suspect Will is making up stories about a party? (p.94)

A5: They didn’t talk to her about it, so there are no more parties any more.

Chapters 11-14

Q6:  Why do you think Will chooses Rezza to go back with Boyd for the contents of the cake tin? (p113)

A6: Will said Rezza was brave and courageous.

Q7: Is Rezza's encounter with the Guards a predictable element in the plot? Does her escape seem credible? (p.129) why/why not?

A7: Rezza's encounter with the Guards was so predictable because for me you have to really think what would happen realistically. Her escape is credible because if she didn't escape the plan would of fallen to pieces.

Chapters 15-16

Q8: What feelings are evoked by the description of the Guards collapsing into "piles of mangled, melting bits of scrap"? (p.147)

A8: The feelings are satisfaction and hysteria.

Q9: Could robots rule the world with artificial intelligence? What arguments would you put forward to support/ oppose this premise?

A8: Well I think It could be any, because you're talking about the future so we might have the ability to shut down the robot system with the press of a button, or if robots are superior enough they might be able to overcome the human resistance. Really won’t know unless it happens.

Text to Text

This book reminds me of the hunger games because everyone is controlled under one rule.

Text to Self

They have friends and I have friends.

Text to World

In Homs Syria no one is allowed to leave they are trapped and forced to starve.