Indledning
“How Not To Be Alone” is an essay written by Jonathan Safran Foer, which explores the topics of the impact that modern technology has on our psychological state and emotions, most importantly our empathy.
We need to be aware of these negative effects and fight back, even though it is sometimes challenging.
This essay is adapted from a speech Foer was giving at Middlebury College in 2013. Which Implies that the audience originally was mainly college students, their parents, and professors.
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Uddrag
Because the message of the essay is to show that modern technology is diminishing our empathy, Foer uses words that have an emotional impact on the reader and inspire empathy:
“Being comforted” (l. 13), “tears came harder” (ll. 14-15) etc. Foer also uses rhetorical question to engage with the reader and to encourage our empathy (ll. 12-21).
The use of emotional words and rhetorical questions to emphasize our empathy makes Foer’s argumentation stronger
because the reader is feeling the emotion we’re diminishing by our expanded use of modern technology, and hereby feeling what Foer argues for.
The text has several instances of metaphors and imagery, which creates a mental image for the reader, and helps visualize the message: “There was a lot of human computing to be done.”
(ll. 35-36). Foer then uses a technology term to help the reader visualize the meaning of the sentences; that he is the one being controlled by our digital technologies.
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