Comparison Of Jay Asher And Carolyn Mackler's The Future Of Us

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In Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler’s “The Future of Us” Josh Templeton and Emma
Nelson will discover Facebook 15 years in the future. The book goes on to say what they will go through to change their future. Don’t change your future because you don’t know what life has already prepared for you.
Josh’s family is given a CD-ROM free in the mail. The Templeton’s decide not to use the
CD-ROM so they pass it on to Emma and her family. When Emma receives it she puts the
CD-ROM in her new computer that her Dad purchased for her and begins to run it. When the
CD-ROM is loaded it asks her if she wants to sign up. She accepts it and fills out the information. The program takes her to her page in the future. Emma and Josh both don’t realize who it is at
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When he finds out he is extremely confused on how that is even possible. What he doesn’t realize that they will end up having a kid and living a pretty good life.
Josh and Sydney are starting to talk in school and hanging out after school. They are becoming better friends by the day, but Sydney doesn’t know that they are going to get married in the future sometime.
Josh and Sydney are going to one of Sydney’s friends’ parties. Emma is also going with one of her friends, but they don’t know that each other are going to the same party. When they see each other at the party they talk a little, but are mainly avoid each other. Emma’s friend that she is with, her name is Kellan and she is going to have a kid really soon so Emma is being really protective. She can’t tell her about any of this.
Emma runs over to Josh and asks if she could borrow his wallet and jacket. It was very awkward. She gave the jacket to Kellan. It has some stuff from Josh’s wallet. As they are leaving to get Kellan to put her hands in the pocket, she said that the pockets were really warm. When she gets home, she logs on to her computer Facebook is gone. Her future self has changed the password. She had said she was going to do that, but couldn’t decide
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His father owns it so they can be there when it is not open. She lets Josh know that they can’t get on Facebook anymore. Josh made the final decision that he was not going to be with
Sydney. It doesn’t say this, but the book implies that Emma and Josh hold hands in the ball pit and they are going to be in each others future. At the end of the book they kiss.
Life has prepares you for amazing things, even things that you have no idea about.They have been best friends their whole life. This gives you the clue that they are most likely to be in each others future, but they don’t know this since they can’t get on Facebook anymore. At the end of the book where it talks about when they kiss, it is unclear if this will happen since they were changing their futures.
In conclusion, this book is a great book.It talks about how not many kids had a computer and had to learn to find information without it. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a social media account especially Facebook. For specific ages I would say anywhere in between
11 to 14. The one thing I wish this book would not have left is a cliffhanger. You kind of have to assume what happens at the end of the book. You never know how your actions can effect other parts of your

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