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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.
 * The setting in Wall.E's world is really dirty and unclean. There is garbage everywhere and most of the buildings are made of compressed garbage. There are dead and broken robots everywhere that were trying to clean up all the garbage and move everything else unhealthy and uncleanly. The only living things on the world/Earth right now was Wall.E and his little bug friend. Until Eva came and then there was the three of them. Everyone else was on the ship out in outer space. There was no other living thing on Earth, and then Wall.E found a plant. Wall.E compacts all the garbage and when he finds some artifacts that he finds significance in them and he puts it in his little cooler or lunch box, and takes it back with him to his little house and he keeps them. His little house is full of artifacts like a T.V and a Rubicz cube, and a lightbulb, and a lot more.

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.)


 * A lot of the artifacts that Wall.E picks up alot is garbage, i think that they treated the world poorly and just threw their garbage anywhere. Wall.E has a collection of BnL lighters that he found and he had no clue what it was for until Eva showed up and lit it up. Another one was he had a lightbulb and he didn't know what it was until Eva

4. What is the significance of the name “Buy and Large”? Explain in a few sentences. By having all those people having Buy and Large stuff, when they were on the cruise ship they had everything Buy and Large and it was like their lifestyle and after using and by ingesting all the Buy and Large food and beverages they ended up being Large.

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.

Similarities: Over the years people do get bigger and end up being larger. By consuming all the wrong foods and not being active enough you get bigger and less active and less energetic and lazier. Another similarity is people who are so obese do need chair and motorized scooters to get around because they lost their balance and have no control over their walking.

I also learned that our world and people that are in it will have shorter lives and be very unhealthy and that is horrible... i would never want to turn out like that. People are getting less active every year and i think that everybody should lay off all the junk food and the fast food and start working out and getting back into shape so they can have a longer life and a better and healthier one. 6. What do the portraits of the Axiom captains tell us about humans over the time since they left Earth? They got bigger and less active and depended more on Auto.


 * Essay Response:**

The film Wall.E has many levels and layers of meaning. What message does this movie give to mankind? Write an essay that explains the theme of this movie and explains the message that the movie has for us. Be sure to give specific examples. Your essay should include an introductory/thesis paragraph, three supporting paragraphs and a concluding paragraph. Please see the rubric below for marking details.

Our Future: Wall.E’s Future. By: Tatyanna Boettcher

Wall.E’s world is horrible I can’t believe that our world could ever turn out like that. After seeing that I can’t even imagine what our world will turn out to be, its kind of scary. If we don’t start saving energy or our water or stop littering and stop the pollution, will our world turn out like Wall.E’s. I think that the world will just get dumpier and dumpier, I also think that our water will be all brown and gushy and gross. It will turn out a disaster, and once it’s done you can’t take it back. It’s like the ozone layer, its already starting to disappear and you can’t take it back and it doesn’t grow back, once it’s started you cant stop it unless you stop polluting and stop littering and star conserving water and electricity.

One of our biggest problems in our world is garbage and litter. If we don’t dispose of it properly it will just keep getting worse and worse, and maybe it will turn out like Wall.E’s. We might even have so much garbage that it will turn out like Wall.E’s world, buildings of compacted garbage, and we could maybe just maybe we might even get shipped out to outer space. If we keep this up we wont have any plants or vegetation left in the world, Wall.E’s world only has one. Wouldn’t it be scary that our world full of garbage got so bad that we needed those Wall.E machines, which would be kind of cool to meet one like Wall. E, but it would be horrible if it had to be that way. A way that we can help prevent so much garbage is to recycle recyclables and put all of our garbage and junk in the garbage.

Another of the major problems in the world is people being Morbidly Obese. Many people don’t eat the right food and if they keep it up and keep eating junk then they will become bigger and bigger and will end up with clogged arteries and die way younger then they are supposed to. In Wall.E they were so obese that they needed motorized chairs to move them around and they ate the worst food ever. Their food was like meals in a cup, it was blended food in like a slurpee type thing. Their captains during the years, there were pictures and over the years they got bigger and bigger and that’s when they probably added the motorized chairs. A way that we can prevent morbidly obesity is to lay off all the junk and fast food and start eating healthier food and making your food at home or finding a healthier fast food restaurant. You can also burn off all your calories and extra fat by exercising and becoming more active.

Another massive problem today is the pollution that the motorized vehicles have given off and if we keep it up we wont have air to breath, which would be horrible. We would either all die or we would have to live off air tanks and oxygen tanks. We have already started contaminating the oxygen that we have, if you look at Calgary in a distance you can see all the smog that people have given off from their exhaust pipes. In Wall.E their air is all brown and disgusting and overly cloudy. Their air is pretty much all smog. A way to prevent that is to either car pool or walk or bike wherever you go. You can also change to a hybrid car that runs on solar energy instead of gas and diesel.

I think that the possibility of our world changing into somewhat like Wall.E’s is pretty high because we have already started betraying our world and vandalizing it. We have crossed the line and its getting worse and worse and we’re going to regret not cleaning it up. Once its done we can’t take it back. The three examples that I gave you were some of the worst and there’s a lot more then that! It’s starting to get harsh, so clean up your attitude and change the world. Our future is in trouble unless we help clean it up and change our habits and throw all our garbage into the actual garbage can. Change the world and everything in it for the better, and if not, then brace for the future.