This blog is a place for Mr. Sale's Science Fiction class at Arapahoe High School to record ideas about the books, films, and discussion topics we explore in class.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Sales Pitch
We read the story "Sales Pitch" by Phillip K. Dick in class on September 12 and 14. If you would like to add a comment about the story, please post it here.
So, is the robot indestructible? Because couldn't the guy just have clobbered it or something because the robots not supposed to hurt him right? And if one man commits suicide, is this a foreshadowing of mankind's future? The loss of sanity over their own creations?
Could the man have given the robot a command to self destruct or jump into a pool or something? Why did he leave his wife? I thought they were talking about going together and she wanted to but then the robot came to the door.
I have one question about the people o the planet they were going to... if their technology is so un-advanced that they can't do space travel, how did the people get there... and how did everyone else find out about it... what do they do with the technology once the people moving there are there.
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So, is the robot indestructible? Because couldn't the guy just have clobbered it or something because the robots not supposed to hurt him right?
And if one man commits suicide, is this a foreshadowing of mankind's future? The loss of sanity over their own creations?
Could the man have given the robot a command to self destruct or jump into a pool or something? Why did he leave his wife? I thought they were talking about going together and she wanted to but then the robot came to the door.
I have one question about the people o the planet they were going to... if their technology is so un-advanced that they can't do space travel, how did the people get there... and how did everyone else find out about it... what do they do with the technology once the people moving there are there.
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