Who Can Replace a Man and New World – Flashcards
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Identify the setting at the beginning and in the Badlands.
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The farm was vitiated by over-cropping, it was 3,000 acres, and the ground was a gray tone. The Badlands has ancient bomb craters, soil erosion, unforested land, and an extensive land
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What is the problem that the field minder has at the beginning of the story?
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The field minder can't get the seeds from Warehouse 3
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Compare: field minder and pen-propeller
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They are both Class Three Brains. They have the same level of literacy and can easily speak to each other. They have more intelligence that the others.
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What happens to the machines when they do not receive orders?
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They start breaking down or doing nothing because they literally run on orders
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What is the cause of death for the humans?
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Diet-deficiency
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How is the radio operator released?
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He orders the machines to do so which they comply to immediately
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Why are the broken machines left behind?
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Because they have no use and purpose anymore
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What news does the flying machine give them about man?
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it tells them that there are still a few men in the mountains
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What is the man's order?
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The man orders the machines to get food
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What is the speaker's relationship with nature?
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since it says "behold" it is introducing nature and how precious and valuable it is
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What times does the describe?
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Dawn, noon, and dusk
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paraphrase the lines "Pollen/is borne/ on winds/ that low/ and lean/ upon/ mountains"
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Flower powder is carried on winds that moan and press on the mountains
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which senses do these lines from "new world" appeal most strongly? "At noon/turtles/enter/slowly/into/the warm/dark loam
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sight and touch
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in "new world" how does N.Scott Momaday create a sense of the unity and completeness of nature?
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the cycle of nature and the progression of time
