Ok so
maybe this book isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but I still think this isn’t
one of the best books ever made. I was still confused on how the book was
written since it was written in the form of how they spoke, but in the end I learned
to like it. Now being in favor of futuristic time lines, I would see how this
book is a major warning to us as a generation. We get distracted with multimedia
all night and day, checking messages from side hoes and seeing what ratchet
girl #5 is doing on Facebook today. Even in my all-time favorite book “Level Up”,
people of all ages are dependent on the technology. It’s a major warning to us.
Titus even gives us a distance on where this will happen.
“I don't know when they first had
feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use
their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried
them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in
a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”
Just like in “Level up”, we are on
these computers that our outside our bodies, but still dependent. Why? Well its
cause the real world we live in has gone to ruins and the internet world is
better. The economy has gone to ashes, so the computer world is the next best
thing. This creator of the game has made a second world for most of the people
to live in. Either go to school or hunt demons, it’s to your liking, but here
is the catch. There are three Easter eggs in this game. If you find all three,
you win the PRIZE. What is it you say? A mansion and 10 million dollars to your
own. Now that will motivate me to find the Easter eggs as soon as possible, but
no one has found even one, let alone all three, so most people have given up on
the PRIZE and go along in their virtual lives.
These two
books are warnings to all people of the younger and older generations.
Technology is a virtue, yet a vice. Too much will make us succumb main b to the
need and dependency on the bright lights with buttons, but too little and you aren’t
effective in today’s world. Just like
how violet became ineffective once her feed malfunctioned. Once that was
established, Titus had lost interest in her massively, like the old flip phone
we use to have. Then we throw it away, looking at the new iPhone with pleasure.
Even in “Level Up”, the main character throws away he’s beaten up laptop for a
new system just because it new. The old one was 10 years old, but could still
function and do its job. We don’t pay mind to how these little screens are now
infused with our lives. Even now I’m using a laptop to type this essay. But not
only that, I’m listening to music and texting my friends on when to play the
next dragon ball z game. Also playing my Xbox so I can entertain myself while
doing work.
SEE! These
two books are just warnings about what can happen to us if we, as a generation,
don’t stop being so dependent. Hold on, I need to text my sister.
Me: Yea?
Celi: where r u? L
Me: Doing a paper, why?
Celi: mom wont t8k me on my d8t wth alex! L
Me: And my job is to??
Celi: Convince her!! Or cn u t8k me???
Me: Fine, but I want gas money.
Celi: Tanks bro J. Loves you! <3
Now
just to be real, this was only one person I was texting during my paper (Sorry
sis), and we don’t even second guess it. We just do it like free will. We don’t
see how technology has become one in our lives and will soon be our demise (Terminator).
“Level up” and “Feed” are just warning that we need to recognize and use to
better open our eyes. I mean away from the screens and into the blazing sun.
get some fresh air and read a book! Something like that right? IDK Imz going to
a party now. Oh Sabrina just texted me lol. Brb J.
-Justin R.
-Justin R.
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