"The Future of Us " - Conflict and Theme

     Emma and Josh are best friends that grew up as neighbors. They would always run back and fourth to each others houses and do things ordinary kids would do such as, going outside, play together, chill out. As they got older, something awkward happened between them during the summer that caused a bit of distance between them. But things start to change once they get into something and they are back to being back and fourth.

     Overall in my book "The Future of Us", the conflicts that occur in the book give me thoughts on the theme. Its possible that the theme of my book is, "you never know weather you'll enjoy the future if you don't see what's coming your way." I think this because Emma never knew if she was going to like her future or not like it until she got onto Facebook and lurked. Now that she see's how her future is going to turn out she's trying to change it around so things in her future can change and she'll hopefully then like her future.

The Future of Us - Genre

     In my book, The Future of Us the two main characters; Emma and Josh are childhood best friends. When they were younger they would run back and forth to each others house's since they were neighbors. Now at the age of 15, something accrued during the summer and that distanced them from hanging out and running back and forth from house to house. Emma gets a computer and Josh receives a CD-ROM disc in the mail. Josh goes over and asks Emma if he can insert it in her computer with her exception. Emma lets him proceed putting the disc in but in the following days that they have used the CD-ROM disc, they freak out about what has been discovered with their own eyes... 

     As a reader, I believe the book, "The Future of Us" is a realistic, futuristic fiction book. I think it's futuristic because once your in a couple chapters, they'll say and see future wise things. What I like about it is that they'll either freak out or be excited to see what's coming their way. The book is also realistic because it real stuff happening to real people in other words real life events. I love how the characters describe the feelings and events in details, it gets you seeing a visual. 

Bangladesh Factory

The argument of this article is that the managers and security guards put many workers lives at risk. In the article it says, "In 2012 a Bangladesh factory caught on fire, killing 112 workers. As the fire started to spread, the managers and security guards told workers it was part of a regular drill and it was too late to escape. Workers noticed gates were locked from outside." I think that, that wasn't a good thing to do because those workers worked hard for them to have their lives at risk as a return for the hard work. What was upsetting that I learned overall from reading this article, is that people don't appreciate the hard work people put in for them and would still do cruel things to them.


     The argument of this poem is that you lose yourself or hope working so hard in these sweatshops. In the poem it states, "My self is destroyed, I become a machine." The poem was different from the article because in the poem it provides up with visualization and feelings of the character. In the article it just gives us information about what happened and what people did but didn't express feelings. This did not form affect on my understanding of the poem.