Book repo #2

1) MLA CITATION
Philip. K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, England: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc, p106, 1995

2) RESPONDING TO THE PLOT: e) Which incidents in the novel did you find wonderful, surprising, comical or even shocking?
An incident which I was shocked extremely is that an android pushed Rick’s goat from the edge of roof garden. The android is Rachael Rosen who had relationship with him on the night before. The motive why she did so is never made clear whether a mechanical heartless behavior in the android ordinary or a humane jealousy.

3) ANALYZING 7 LIERERY TERMS:
Setting: In the far distant future in San Francisco, after World War Terminus.

Point of view: The third person.

Conflict: Human beings and Androids. Rick is a pothunter who kills androids, which enter into the earth illegally. Killing android is Rick’s livelihood.

Climax: At the climax, Rick killed the illegal androids. As a resolute, he received high reward but this work made his mind hurt.

Symbol: The symbol of this novel is android. It always follows the protagonist and his mind about.

Irony: When he was nerveless and apathetic to everything, a living toad, which he found unexpectedly, made him lively and he recovered his spirit to get back home. He showed his wife the toad and congratulated himself on getting it because toad is an extinct animal in the world of this story. However, the toad was an electric animal.

Theme: The theme of this story is what human being is. Androids which are exactly like humans, electric animals and Mercer’s are all tools having some question. It is what the existence of human is. Human is an existence which can have empathy and complex feeling. The theme is this question and answer. Also, it is Rick’s journey of thinking and feeling about himself.

4) REFLECTING ON THE STORY: a) How does the character’s life compare to your own?
My life is much better than Rick’s because I do not need to fear the harmful dust from the sky and be decided between regular and irregular. Of course I can walk around among trees and plants and see a lot of wild insects, birds or other animals if I go to the woods. Rick’s life is grey, miserable and too much mechanical for the influence of World War Terminus. I don’t have any electric animal or mood organ but I am satisfied with my life.