Machine Man is a novel written by Max Barry. It is about a man named Charles Neumann who replaces parts of his body with machines. As the story goes on he replaces more of his body to machines. The company that he works with becomes extremely interested in taking his research and using it as a profit. However, Charles has a different idea about the usage of his design. Charles is not interested in making money from his design; he is interested in his own personal benefit and only wants to make the product for himself. This shows that Charles is more consumed in creating an enhanced body only for himself. Charles slowly creates more modify designed body parts to the point where he would no longer be able to be identified as a human. A clear
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Technology can be a useful tool but is overly used in an average human’s life. Technology is constantly being over used and Max Barry presents several key points in his novel about what the over uses on technology is coming …show more content…
As he does so, his life soon begins to depend on the machines in order to live and not be forced to live on life support. “Even if I could. Survive. On some shitty life support system. I don’t want to” (Barry, 257). During the book it talks about how people envy Charles’s machines. They have working limbs but want his technology almost as if it is a fashion. The people are so absorbed in technology that they are willing the replace their working limbs for mechanical limbs. Towards the end of the book, Charles is so intertwined with technology that it begins to control him. For example, Charles was angry with the manager that his leg kicked the manager out of the window. Charles had no control over what his legs did at that point. Another example of this is at the end of the book. Charles was trying to run away with Lola and stomp on the ground so that it would cause a commotion. However, Jason took control of Charles’s leg and controlled him like a “puppet” (Berry, 267). Charles was so involved in technology and making mechanical parts that now he is being used as technology. Charles is even talking like a machine would
Technology can be a useful tool but is overly used in an average human’s life. Technology is constantly being over used and Max Barry presents several key points in his novel about what the over uses on technology is coming …show more content…
As he does so, his life soon begins to depend on the machines in order to live and not be forced to live on life support. “Even if I could. Survive. On some shitty life support system. I don’t want to” (Barry, 257). During the book it talks about how people envy Charles’s machines. They have working limbs but want his technology almost as if it is a fashion. The people are so absorbed in technology that they are willing the replace their working limbs for mechanical limbs. Towards the end of the book, Charles is so intertwined with technology that it begins to control him. For example, Charles was angry with the manager that his leg kicked the manager out of the window. Charles had no control over what his legs did at that point. Another example of this is at the end of the book. Charles was trying to run away with Lola and stomp on the ground so that it would cause a commotion. However, Jason took control of Charles’s leg and controlled him like a “puppet” (Berry, 267). Charles was so involved in technology and making mechanical parts that now he is being used as technology. Charles is even talking like a machine would