Passage:
" 'Now don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. It's that robot Gloria calls Robbie. He doesn't leave her for a moment.' 'Well, why should he? He's not supposed to, And he certainly isn't a terrible machine. He's the best darn robot money can buy and I'm damned sure he set me back half a year's income. He's worth it, though-darn sight cleverer than half my office staff.'
He made a move to pick up the paper again, but his wife was quicker and snatched it away.
'You listen to me, George. I won't have my daughter entrusted to a machine - and I don't care how clever it is. It has no soul, and no one knows what it may be thinking. A child just isn't made to be guarded by a thing of metal.' " (Pg. 7)
Response:
This quote is from the first chapter of I, ROBOT shows Mr. and Mrs. Weston were having a conversation about their daughter named Gloria that why she playing with a robot that called Robbie. I wonder what the world will look like if what Mrs. Weston said will happen. Although the book is fiction, but I know people are now creating robots and trying to fit them into our society and I guess our world will be soon look like what happen in the book. Mrs. Weston was worrying about the robot that always come with her daughter, she thinks the robot might harm her daughter because it's not a normal human. I also wonder what the robots will treat us if there are robots in the future.
Analysis:
I think the author Isaac Asimov has achieved his purpose of taking the readers into the curious by adding more situations which reacted by human emotions that could make the readers feel more exciting while the readers are reading the book. He described the world in the future will be under control with the mixed of human and robot. He used most of imagery and drama as his techniques to make the readers feel like they are drowning into what happen in the book, it keeps the readers thinking deeper, and predict what will happen.
Good start.
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