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What Is Wall-E And Consumerism

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Sydney Kesling
18 December 2016
Dr. Damai
ENG 201-118
Final Paper
Wall-E IS Our World
"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Ken Levin. This quote itself may not seem as if it is much, but in all reality the words behind it go much deeper than at first glance. Each and every day we are forced to make decisions and those decisions make us into the person that we are today. Whether the outcome may be good or bad, it all results back to the choices we have made. You may ask how this relates to the Pixar movie Wall-E, but simply the decisions made by humans and their devout love for consumerism has propelled them to be within the position that they are when we are first introduced to them in the film. So even though Wall-E …show more content…

Discussing how Wall-E is a collector, like those who recycle today. Those who are like Wall-E are helping the environment, rather than those who provide the stuff. Consumerism is only harmful when people forget what items are useful, and what are garbage and unnecessary. The author of this article hopes that with Wall-E being a warm comforting film, and showing the character Wall-E as being a positive role model, they'll follow in his steps and become aware of their own situation in this …show more content…

Woodhouse, discusses consumerism as we know it. It discusses how it can have a positive influence and allow people to display their own personal identity. But, it also discusses the many negatives, such as environmental destruction, explaining that consumerism is much more than simply making purchases, it is a complicated mix of organizations, relationships, and ethically problematic practices involving science and technology. We see this in Wall-E by all of the different characters in the film, each human has something they personally enjoy tied into their hover chair, that’s what makes them different. But the hover chair itself is a disaster of technology. It may be very advanced, and allows the humans to live worry free, but it was only created due to the failure of the humans keeping earth livable. They let the consumerism cycle take hold of their lives and in return, ended up hurting them more than helping. They truly believed that they were fine living the lives they were living in the Axiom, which us as viewers can obviously see is far from true. But they had been brainwashed to think that is

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