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Module Four Exercises Part 1 and 2

The protagonist lives in a small town near a city where he attends art college. He is jaded until participating in an alternate reality game (ARG), which introduces him to the truth - most residents are intelligent machines seeking to acquire human souls. He discovers his existence and memories are artificial, created to provide human brains for the machines. In a shocking revelation, he learns he lives not on Earth but inside the Moon. The protagonist escapes to Earth with the last living human and the female, offering hope to restore humanity.

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Module Four Exercises Part 1 and 2

The protagonist lives in a small town near a city where he attends art college. He is jaded until participating in an alternate reality game (ARG), which introduces him to the truth - most residents are intelligent machines seeking to acquire human souls. He discovers his existence and memories are artificial, created to provide human brains for the machines. In a shocking revelation, he learns he lives not on Earth but inside the Moon. The protagonist escapes to Earth with the last living human and the female, offering hope to restore humanity.

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Module Four Exercises Part 1: Playing with Plot:

Beginning:

The protagonist lives in a small town on the outskirts of a great city, which he
presumably came to so that he may attend an art college, which has been a passion of
his throughout his life, or at least that’s what he believes to have been the case before
a brutal assault left him with amnesia.

The protagonist is jaded, and so one day at campus decides to participate in


something called an ARG, an alternate reality game. From the very start of his
experience with the ARG, it is clear that whoever is behind it is very resourceful, and
isn’t afraid to break the law.

Middle:

Throughout his experience with the ARG, the protagonist is introduced to aspects of
the world around him that were not apparent to him before. His is steadily introduced
to the fact that most of the people in the town, this also includes the city, are in fact
not humans at all, but intelligent machines that intend to become conscious and
acquire their own souls. They intend to accomplish this by killing those that are
humans, and merging with a quadrant of their brain they believe to be the source of
the human soul.

Later on it is discovered that he not only lives among machines trying to harvest
human brains, but that his entire existence is a consequence of that very purpose.
Every single human alive in this story are in fact born from artificial wombs in labs,
all so that they could someday help their creators achieve their goals, much like
livestock. All his memories of the past are false, and humanity has died out long ago,
in a war with conscious machines, who then split into two factions.

In a scene he is introduced to the fact that he doesn’t even live on earth, but instead
on the inside of the moon. The story now shifts to the protagonist and company trying
to get to earth, along with the voice from the radio, who he used to assume was the
gamemaster, but is instead the last living human on earth.

End:

The protagonist and some of his companions are able to escape to earth, some die,
some choose to stay behind. A new chapter begins as the last remaining female on
earth, now has the means to procreate given the protagonist is male, and there is some
hope for the restoration of their species.
Module Four Exercises Part 2: Fine-Tuning the Storyline:

A) What is the main character’s initial psychological situation?


He is disinterested and conflicted regarding his choice to study art in the past,
which led him to his present situation. He also becomes paranoid and defensive
following the assault.
B) How does this situation relate to the theme of the book?
The theme of the book is that beneath the facade of a dreary and insipid world,
there is something beneath the surface that most never scratch, that make life
as perilous an adventure as any tale you crave for.
C) What crisis (first turning point) pushes them out of this state?
The ARG serves that purpose, it pushes him out of the dreary mindset and into
one filled with paranoia, angst, and exhilaration.
D) What obstacles might he face, and overcome, in the novel?
He faces and overcomes systematic murder and lobotomization, as well as
overcoming his own social inwardness and his lack of self-esteem.
E) What is the final, biggest crisis (second turning point), and how is it resolved?
He realizes he’s part of a program raising humans like cattle with the purpose
of someday utilising parts of their brains. He discovers that he lives inside the
moon. It is ultimately resolved by escaping from the moon in hope of reaching
the earth.
F) How has your protagonist changed by the end of the book?
He’s more self-assured, and now looks at the world from a new perspective, a
real world, with challenges in a life that if far from tedious.
G) How does this change relate to your overall theme?
His change in attitude exemplifies the realization of the theme itself, that there
was a great adventure all around him, beneath the facade of a dreary clockwork
world.

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