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Summary Of The Circle By Dave Eggers

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Imagine a world where every piece of information was very bleak and uninteresting due the lack of fantasy or adventure. Within the book, the Circle by Dave Eggers is about how a person from the outside world becomes consumed by the ideals of the Circle and becomes a tool to further the organization’s dark goal. This book provides a insight of where society now is heading to as times past, which nonfiction does not provide.Despite the school board’s recent sentiment regarding the lack of value that fiction provides , fiction should remain in the school’s curriculum due to the fact we, the people are slowly losing every pieces of valuable moment in our life that we get from fiction as our technology today advances. Also, we’re losing the valuable …show more content…

This is supported by the positive affects and negative affects of the use of technology today.[DESREUMAUX, GEOFF; 2017] Young minds must obtain new perspective looking at things such as use technology for our advantage like the gain of news alerts, natural disasters relief support, and increase marketing exposure.[Agrawal, AJ; 2017] The possibilities are endless with these new ideas of new technology from these fictional tales, which help inventors with what a certain type of technology should do. These ideals are true due to the fact that the possibilities of inventing something new are drop down and gives fiction some spotlight in the matter of this unique ideas. The fiction can also be harmful to readers such as the harsh experiences and addicting nature of the story’s plot such as the use of the internet.[Brian Jung ; 2017] The addiction such as drugs, alcohol, and techology have constantly controlled our lives. These addictions in the end cause us nothing pain for the user and the watcher today. Fiction gives us a new perspective of what is to come if we continue our bad ways of life. These true effects from this horrible events and action truly affect on ourselves, our actions and our loved ones. From information and insight from fictional text, we have truly turned our world upside

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