Anthonique Bowe
English 119
The Island

1) Describe the dystopic qualities of life in the community where Lincoln six echo lives. * It can be describe as a sterile futuristic environment. Lincoln six echo and others wore identical white uniforms, their supervisors wear black ones. There is a considerable amount of TV screens that show slogans and instructions. Twice a day they show the results of the Lottery. This environment is said to be a place of protection for its citizens, since there has been a worldwide contamination. Not knowing that they are clones used as spare parts for the rich elite. 2) Why and how does Lincoln Six Echo discover that he is being lied to? * He found out he was being lied to after capturing a moth that is said to have become extinct because
Of the contamination and he witnesses that a young mother is killed directly after the delivery
Of her child. He comes to the conclusion that the supervisor and his people only pretend to
Have saved him and his friends. In fact they are kept imprisoned and the Island is just a way of
Explaining the disappearance of people.

3) Do you believe that ones socio economic status determines how long one lives? * I disagree because ones socio economic status can change anytime for example Jordan and Lincoln was not familiar with the outside world .They never knew what it was like to fully function like a human being everything was like new to them but they got adopted used techniques and strategies and they both survive.

4) Why did the mercenary hired to find Jordan Two Delta and Lincoln Six Echo eventually side with them? * The mercenary undergoes an ideological conversion when he sees the brand on Jordan Two Delta’s wrist. He displays a brand on his own palm and in doing so references one of the signature images where humans representing American slavery, were branded with a twisted cross to show the tyranny of Christianity. Bay undoes that liberal myth here because it is a secular tyranny that brands the clones, that uses them for parts, that says they are without souls. So his heart was converted and he helped Jordan Two Delta.

5) How is the population in the community controlled by Dr.Merrick and the company? * Dr.Merrick and the company would lie to the population and tell them that they are the planet's only survivors of a global biological contamination disaster .That makes it impossible for anyone to leave the cloning facility .Where their bodily functions are monitored for perfect health and every movement is observed at all times. Their memory and environment is also computerize, There is a strong focus on the visual representation of technology on the population .Most of the special effects concentrate on the action scenes that are only slightly related with science fiction aspects. A notable feature is the holographic grid that is part of the illusion that the population are living in a complex on the sea and that there is an island.

6) How do you feel about cloning? * I definitely don’t sanction cloning, when clones are created they develop their own modes of expression, memories, emotions and friends. They have life force and consciousness. So even though they are not humans they are design and to function exactly like a human. In the movie, the cloned humans are treated worse than animals. They're actually treated like products. In fact, they are called product, not humans. They were only created to produce organs for human called sponsors and then they would be killed.