Machine Man By Max Barry
Machine Man
The mind of a genius is not understood by just anyone. These genius people often struggle on their own, such as making friends and having close relationships. Machine man by Max Barry, is a short fiction novel about Charles Neumann who is portrayed in the book as a genius, but struggles with being socially accepted by people cause of how he lives in his own world. His world does not include other people, it only includes his phone and his work environment. Sudden changes in Charles’ life change his perspective of people and his wish to fulfill his childhood dream of being less human and more mechanical. Machine Man is told from the point of view of Charles Neumann, a genius. Story takes place at Better Futures, the company that …show more content…
For example when he describes how it sounds when Lola is shot. “IT SOUNDED LIKE CLANG! CLANG!” (Barry 108). Charles is upset that Lola has been shot. Charles has a break through when Lola gets hurt, he shows real human emotions when he thinks that she has been killed. In his own way, he loves her. Charles describes the scene around him. “Shards of glass fell from me like water.” (Barry 261). He is describing how much damage he and Carl caused by getting into a brawl with their mechanical …show more content…
Charles is finally able to establish a relationship with Lola and Carl. He seems to have human feeling for them. Charles observes most people but does not really have any human feelings for them. Charles displays normal human emotion in his dislike for Dr. Angelica. She accuses him of being crazy. Charles thinks she is crazy because she puts clothes on her dogs and treats them like people. People who are different from us scare us, and we like to think that they are crazy. The fact is that we are all unique in some way. Some of us are completely social and spend our lives trying to be in constant interaction with other people. Other people, like Charles, are perfectly happy living in their own world without social interaction. As obsessed as Charles was with his phone, he never used it to make or receive calls. “An incoming call. It had lasted three minutes, forty-two seconds. I looked at it a while, because it was kink of remarkable.” (Barry
The mind of a genius is not understood by just anyone. These genius people often struggle on their own, such as making friends and having close relationships. Machine man by Max Barry, is a short fiction novel about Charles Neumann who is portrayed in the book as a genius, but struggles with being socially accepted by people cause of how he lives in his own world. His world does not include other people, it only includes his phone and his work environment. Sudden changes in Charles’ life change his perspective of people and his wish to fulfill his childhood dream of being less human and more mechanical. Machine Man is told from the point of view of Charles Neumann, a genius. Story takes place at Better Futures, the company that …show more content…
For example when he describes how it sounds when Lola is shot. “IT SOUNDED LIKE CLANG! CLANG!” (Barry 108). Charles is upset that Lola has been shot. Charles has a break through when Lola gets hurt, he shows real human emotions when he thinks that she has been killed. In his own way, he loves her. Charles describes the scene around him. “Shards of glass fell from me like water.” (Barry 261). He is describing how much damage he and Carl caused by getting into a brawl with their mechanical …show more content…
Charles is finally able to establish a relationship with Lola and Carl. He seems to have human feeling for them. Charles observes most people but does not really have any human feelings for them. Charles displays normal human emotion in his dislike for Dr. Angelica. She accuses him of being crazy. Charles thinks she is crazy because she puts clothes on her dogs and treats them like people. People who are different from us scare us, and we like to think that they are crazy. The fact is that we are all unique in some way. Some of us are completely social and spend our lives trying to be in constant interaction with other people. Other people, like Charles, are perfectly happy living in their own world without social interaction. As obsessed as Charles was with his phone, he never used it to make or receive calls. “An incoming call. It had lasted three minutes, forty-two seconds. I looked at it a while, because it was kink of remarkable.” (Barry