ipl-logo

Plot Summary Of The Hinderson By Thomas Henderson

432 Words2 Pages

The exposition of the story is the people of earth celebrating that they won the war. The silence was nice. Technicians were not running around and such. Yet this time would not last forever. The rising action in the story is when Henderson said, "If I told you the data was unreliable, what could you have done but replace me and refuse to believe me? I couldn't allow that." Then Jablonsky asked Henderson what he did. This made my heart speed up because I was now curious as to what he did. The climax of this selection is when Henderson explains that he corrected the data. He used his intuition and juggled them till they looked correct. First he only did a little but here and there. When the sky did not collapse he wrote out the data that was …show more content…

If it had been important he would have followed it up on it and found out it was Henderson. So Henderson got away with it. Henderson asked him what he meant by “nothing mattered.” Jablonsky then said, “What made you think Multivac was in working order, whatever the data you supplied it?" He said that they were not working reliably. Jablonsky didn’t have technicians, he made do with kids and retired veterans who barely knew what they were doing. Jablonsky said, “it didn't matter whether the data being supplied Multivac were reliable or not. The results weren't reliable.” Henderson then asked him what he did. Jablonsky then said he introduced the bugger factor. Then, adjusted matters in accordance with intuition. That's how the machine won the war. This is the climax because between the men you find out what really happened. The falling action in this story is when Swift said that he was correct for not placing too much reliance upon it. Swift explained that he never knew that what Multivac ever said is what it meant. He said that “Multivac was not the first computer, friends, nor the best-known, nor the one that can most efficiently lift the load of decision from the shoulders of the executive.” He said that a very simple computing device that he used to make decisions on had won the

Show More
Related
601 Words | 3 Pages

The antagonist is machine and humans

Read More
1328 Words | 6 Pages

In “How to Tell a True War Story”, the main theme is how to tell whether a war story is true or made-up. The author explores the conflict within reality and fiction by arguing that true war stories are hard to believe. In O’Brien’s view, he points out that “A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. ”(p.80). Moreover, to make his point, the author spins between facts and fiction causing difficulty for the readers to believe if those stories actually happened or

Read More
572 Words | 3 Pages

Some people could say that the soldiers that were in and lived through the the war are brave because of the lifestyle they lived for over a year, and I agree, mainly because of the harsh conditions they came in experienced with. In source one it mainly discussed on how the soldiers started in the and discuss the idea on how the soldiers thought it was going to be like instead of that it was actually like. It was unlike anything they 've ever came across in previous wars, it got so bad to the point where the soldiers had to hold on to their things making sure they were alive and their. In conclusion, source one, “The Earth Booms” spoke about the soldiers and what they went through just in the beginning of the war and how they tried to overcome it.

Read More
172 Words | 1 Pages

His IPB process was flawed and he made mistakes. These mistakes included but are not limited to the miscalculation of the weather, which was unseasonable warm; road conditions, which were sandy; and

Read More
1241 Words | 5 Pages

And in the end, really, there’s nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe ‘Oh’” (77). We can never assume the truth in a war story. The only way to discover the truth hidden behind the lies is to pull away the many layers or in this case the stories that make up a war

Read More
545 Words | 3 Pages

That night, for the first time in Jack experience, the prisoners were locked in their barracks. They could hear Allied planes flying overhead and the bombs blowing up ground targets. Jack knew the camp could be a target and they might be blown to bits but he didn't care anymore, the only thing he care was the "Allies were bombing Germany, and that Hitler would lose the war. " The next morning, their was no guards, Jack and several other stepped outside and looked

Read More
423 Words | 2 Pages

(page 68). This is why Tim O’Brien writes the way he does. He wants the reader to believe his story and get a sense of what war is truly

Read More
494 Words | 2 Pages

According to lines 85 and 95, only six people were tested on and two out of the six people tested did not count because there was an error made while experimenting. Only four people were used to prove his point that is not enough for he's beliefs to become a common, Predictable and provable result. This is poor science because the sample size is too small, maybe these results are specific to only these four people and you would get different results if you tested it on

Read More
1413 Words | 6 Pages

His work gave the Allies the edge they needed to win the war in Europe” (Jacobson 2). Alan Turing created a machine to

Read More
612 Words | 3 Pages

When the short story begins, it reveals that the author was overruled by the impact of the war and how it damaged him as an individual, and how he betrays his religion, family and self Right from the beginning of the book the man states that "This is one story I 've

Read More
283 Words | 2 Pages

The machine that won the war is about two men, Henderson and Swift, arguing about who really won

Read More
1506 Words | 7 Pages

The world was at war. People thought it would be over soon and felt that Britain would win being very powerful. However, things did not end the way it seemed. The war was very different from conflicts of the past. For the first time, powerful new weapons and vehicles were used, at sea, land and air.

Read More
610 Words | 3 Pages

With all of these soul-shattering, life-changing conditions, it is less of a war and more of a test of strength for the soldiers, here at Valley Forge. Some men were going home and not returning. Other men just completely deserted. Even George Washington’s position was uncertain, the members of congress didn’t trust him. Life at Valley Forge was obviously horrible, and the ugly truth is that it wouldn’t get much better.

Read More
622 Words | 3 Pages

Daugherty, their teacher, had him over at his house after school. (Asimov, 296) Mr. Daugherty discussed with him about being entering computer school and doing proper programing. It is during this scene that an allusion to Multivac, a giant computer that is in several other short stories by Asimov, is given. Mr. Daugherty also showed him his collection of old computers. Paul vividly describes to Niccolo old hand calculators, slide rules,” wires with balls on them” and multiplication tables.

Read More
2299 Words | 10 Pages

The software was like what we know now a machine that can think and solve problems itself. He did this by inputting simple words and equations into the machine. Which then would have the knowledge to from equations and calculate what was needed. To Truing it was a hard process, but he did it.

Read More

More about Plot Summary Of The Hinderson By Thomas Henderson

Related Topics

Open Document