WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN By Brian Wilson

WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN By: Brian Wilson

Summary When the field minder reports to pick up more materials, the machine is met with another machine who can perform his duty. Because he has a level-three brain, he is able to investigate why robots all around the farm are incapable of performing their tasks. Eventually, another machine comes along that is level-two; even smarter than the field minder and they set off to the city to find humans or a level-one robot. Other machines come along but eventually, they learn that the city is filled with war, so they set off for the mountains to create their own city and take care of themselves. They even believe that they should stay clear of men because they are dangerous too. As they make their way up the mountain, they lose at least one of their members and at the top, they find a man. They approach the man and he orders them to find him food to which they � �

Vocabulary Distinction: Difference Respectively: In the order previously named Deficiency: Lack of something that is necessary Debris: Pieces remaining from something that has been destroyed Erosion: Wearing away by action of wind or water Ravaged: Devastated

Conflict: Who will replace man & the robots are fighting � Resolution: The robots are getting more intelligent � Characters: Field Minder, Pen Propeller, Man, Radio operator, Quarrier � �

Theme: Man is a Superior to machine � Setting: Earth, Mainly in badlands , Sometime in the future � Mood/Atmosphere: Hopeful / optomistic �

Exposition: When the field minder comes back and no one is working Rising Action: When the robots travel to the badlands � Climax: When the machines found the old man � Falling Action: When the man tells the machines to go and get him something to eat �

Point of view The view the story is told from � Third person point of view: Where the narrator is talking �