The book, The Age of Earthquakes, encourages me to reflect on the many aspects of today’s society and the stunning similarities. The most interesting part of this book was the structure and the style in which messages were portrayed. I read this book twice because the first time I read it, I was not able to grasp the full extent of the text that I was satisfied with, this could be attributed to the fact that the book did not follow the kind of story lines or plots that I have been accustomed to. This new plot structure can be attributed to part of the book’s message that “our lives are no longer feeling like stories.” Connecting this to our society, that statement comments on the ongoing shift in the idea of marriage from a focus on necessity to a focus on love, to try and make our lives more “story-like.”  Throughout the book, there didn’t seem to be a clear cohesive plot, seeming to be more of a compilation of engaging ideas. The pages seemed to resemble internet pages more than the traditional picture and word books, this choice appears to follow one of the book’s ideas that “the world feels too out of control-ish,” due to the world’s rapid changes. The ideas and images in the book move quickly in that the images and ideas are a glimpse into an entity that can potentially be much more. I agreed with this book in that it served as a warning to the current generation of what can be, but also served as a source that tells us what is happening and what is inevitable. I agreed that society’s obsession with technology has increased our dependence on it, physically and intellectually, and is changing the social fabric of our society.

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