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March 24, 2010

1. In a paragraph, describe the setting of Wall.E’s world in the first half hour of the movie. Is it a viable depiction of our planet’s future? Explain.

In the first half hour of Wall-E I have seen a world of devastation and covered in garbage. Everything is brown and garbage covers every part of the earth. Wall-E saved the last living green plant. The humans live in space because they have destroyed the earth and have moved on. If we continue recycling and reusing the things we don’t need anymore I don’t think our world will come to that. But if we just throw everything away and never think about future generations then in hundreds of years our planet may be another garbage dump. Wall-E’s world would be a good example of what our world may come to: brown, dead, and no living things. We have to be careful what we do with our garbage and always keep in mind what it is doing to the planet we live on. But I think if we treat our world with respect it the future of our earth will last.

March 25, 2010

4. What is the significance of the name “Buy and Large”? Explain in a few sentences.

5. Describe the lifestyle of the people who inhabit Axiom. Describe any similarities with these people’s lifestyle and the lifestyle of people on Earth today. What is the message to be learned from this comparison? Explain in a paragraph.

"Buy and Large" runs Axiom. Children are taught at a young age that "Buy and Large" is their best friend. They make the rules, trends, and convince people to eat whatever they want in large qualities. "Buy and Large" is like the popular kids in school, everything they do or say is the new cool thing. The people who are not behind the screen of "Buy and Large" then start to realize things that are happening around them, sometimes they don't like it sometimes they see things for the first time and think they are beautiful. Many of the people don't know that the Axiom has a pool or a running track. A pool and running track are used to stay fit and healthy. "Buy and Large" doesn't want the people to realize their life style is unhealthy because that means they wouldn't have as much business and people would turn against them because.

The people who live on the Axiom live a lifestyle where they don't have to do anything. They eat anything and everything they want and no one gets stereotyped because everyone looks the same. Everyone is large and everyone just sit around and communicate over the computer. No one realizes what is going on around them, which is disaster. In some ways people on earth is the same. This movie is trying to tell us that this could be our future, we sit around talking to our friends over the computer instead of getting up and doingsomething with them. Some facts say that our world today that more people are dying from being obese then from starvation. That shows how our world is changing already and how it might be in the future. In Wall-E there was no elderly people, probably because no one lives very long because they don't take care of themselves. The people of Axiom don't have anything to do except eat, sleep, and watch T.V.

March 26, 2010

6. What do the portraits of the Axiom captains tell us about humans over the time since they left Earth?

The portraits of the Axiom captains shows that each of the captains have gotten bigger each time. This means that "Buy and Large" has a bigger impact and influence on the people every year. No one knows what earth is or where it is. They don't know what we know. They don't take care of their bodies, they don't realize that they are killing themselves or that they could simply just turn to the person to talk to them instead of always having a screen in front of their face. If you were to look at the captains life spans I'm sure that the facts would show that each person died sooner then the one before.

2. Make note of and describe some of the “artifacts” that Wall.E has collected. What is the significance/meaning of these objects as symbols? What do they tell us about the human race? Explain in a paragraph. (Use the following chart to collect notes as you view.)

Some of the the artifacts that Wall-E has collected tell us something about our human race. One of the artifacts was a ring box. Though Wall-E is a robot when he found a ring and a ring box he thought that the boxes hinges were way cooler than the diamond ring. A simple technology that we take for granted everyday. One of Wall-E's favorite artifacts that he found was the movie. This movie would show future generations what we did, what we were like, and how we talked. The talking fish also keeps English alive, but if you didn't know anything about earth and the you found a talking fish you might think that all fish talked. The only natural thing that Wall-E found was a small plant. It was green and the only natural living thing left. This plant showed that life could still live on earth. This tells us that earth can recover and life can come back. The only things left that would tell other people about our human race were manufactured and plastic. Future generations would think that we sit around playing on rubric cubes, too lazy to get a spoon when we need a fork or vise versa so we use sporks. No art or books were reserved to tell about our life. These artifacts describe who we are and what people will know about us in the future.