Commander Barton and Leonard Mead are two different people, but they have a few things in common. They are both outsiders in a world that’s advancing very rapidly in technology. Commander Barton is a commander on a ship in space, and his ship carries medicine to men on a planet named Woden. Leonard Mead likes to take walks at night and look at how everyone likes to sit at home and watch television all night long.
Commander Barton has stowaways on his ship to help him prepare for his trip. When it leaves for Woden the extra person has to be ejected into space because the ship doesn’t have enough fuel to get him and the other person to Woden. One of his stowaway’s was a girl, which was unexpected because it’s usually a guy. When he saw it was a girl he was shocked. He didn’t want to have to kill the girl, but he was a man who followed orders so he did.
The city Leonard Mead lives in is swarmed with car driving, television watching, and technologically brainwashed people. He walks around at night with sneakers on his feet so he won’t disturb everyone that’s watching television. One night in November he went for a walk, just as he did the night before, except something unexpected happened. The only cop car in the city stopped and talked to him. It was strange though because the cop car didn’t have a cop in it. It was driving itself. It asked Leonard to get in because it thought it was weird that a person was walking all alone at night while everyone else was watching television. The cop car took him to an institute so they could check him out.
Commander Barton and Leonard Mead are alike in a few ways. Each day Commander Barton travels to Woden, and Leonard Mead walks at night to examine everyone that’s watching television. They both started the day as if they did the previous, but an unexpected twist messes up their routine. For Commander Barton it was life changing because he had to put an innocent woman’s life to an end. For Leonard Mead it left him questioning why it was a crime to walk at night instead of watching television like the rest of the city. Also, they never fully understand what happened that day. They both will never side with technology.
Although they’re alike, they have many differences. Commander Barton has to follow orders, but Leonard Mead chooses to walk around at night. It was outside Commander Barton’s control to end the woman’s life, but Leonard Mead could have just been like the rest of society and watched television all night long and went for walks in the daytime.
Commander Barton and Leonard Mead never caught up to technology, and they didn’t care if they did either.
1 comment:
Jesse - some good ideas here. This might be the longest essay in class! Okay, here are some things to consider:
1) Make sure you stay on your theme - "Both are outsiders in a world that has advanced very rapidly in the area of technology" - everything you state must relate to this idea. Think about the laws that have arisen that people both protagonists in difficult situations.
2) Your last three paragraphs start repeating information. You should probably get rid of them and rewrite.
3) Can you connect this to the real world in your conclusion?
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