SNBTAS+Theme

SNBTAS Theme Kyle- "Feed" The theme in "Feed" is easy to recognize. Technology and media can be very dangerous and controlling. The author writes random examples of advertisements in between chapters. I think he did that to explain just how integrated the media can be a part of our lives. In "Feed" everywhere they have ads and media attacking them. In the book Titus will walk into a store and the book explains it as being bombarded with ads. Ads about the company and the sales that are going on. We get that today, just as much as in Titus' time with the feed. It comes in a different form, but media is everywhere. The Feed is just a more direct way of media. You get all of it right in your head. We get just as much media, but it's more hidden and we don't notice it as much. It's easier to ignore. In the end the technology that develops in the future is very dangerous. It starts controlling people and literally affects people's choices and thoughts. It destroys the planet because we need so many materials to feed our technological needs. A quote from the book explains this. "We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away." Technology could spell the end of humanity. It changes us, makes us more simple, and we get lazy and don't find joy in simple things any more. "//It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization... We’re going down. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars.// //Violet.// //The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever."//

Dakota

Shelbee

Tianna- "The People of Sparks"

In "The people of Sparks" the theme i found was, even though people can come from different places and can look different than you, doesn't mean that you treat them differently. This means that if you meet someone different or new you should be nice to them and welcome them as one of your own. In the book the people of Ember come from underground and they look different because they haven't had any sun in their lives. The people of Sparks think they shouldn't be welcome because they are different and unusual, but later on in the book they realize that the city could use the extra help they offer to them. "We were afraid that you would ruin everything for us. We were almost on the edge of prosperity. We feared that you would push us back into deprivation. ... So we tried to get rid of the problem instead of solving it, ..." At the end of the book when the tree and the city building catches on fire, one of the main characters comes to their senses, sets an example to everyone, and helps the people of Sparks put out the fire, one by one the people of Ember all come to help put out the fire. After the fire is all put out the people of Sparks know and realize that the whole city could have been burned to the ground without the help from the people of Ember. The people of Sparks learned their lesson and welcomed the people of Ember. The city council said, "we will no longer speak of ' the people of Sparks' and 'the people of Ember.' From now on, we are all the people of Sparks."

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