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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Book Analysis

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ENG-105
J’Dari Lott
Fall 2015
Response Paper 3

The book Do androids Dream of electric sheep? Was published in 1968. The main character Rick Deckard lives in 2011: after a third war humans were encouraged to travel off-world to protect human kind from effects of the nuclear fallout. The humans were to travel to mars with the promise of an android servant. Androids are restricted to the off world only, and if they do appear on Earth, bounty hunters are responsible for killing the androids. There are some elements and themes in the book that were not shown/ played out in the film. Mercerism is the dominant religion portrayed in this book, and its foundation lies in the journey of Wilbur Mercer up a mountain, only to fall down and repeat the process once he reaches the top practitioners of Mercerism use a device called an Empathy Box to empathize not only with the journey of Mercer, but with all other users of an Empathy Box, so that the joy or suffering of one contributes to the joy or suffering of all. …show more content…

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