Recap

After finishing the book, i thought a lot about the story and a lot about the earlier concepts of story. Something that no one has really focused on is the fact that the Android were indeed SLAVES in there native land. To look back at the whole book as a metaphor to slavery really opens new thoughts. This is the way i looked at the blog with its parallelism to slavery/colonization of a new world.

Real- People leave Europe to escape famine, religous prosecution and disease.
Book- People leave earth to escape disease and war.

Real- An incentive to moving to America is cheap slave labor
Book- An incentive to moving to Mars is a personal Slave

Real- Slaves are shipped over from Africa, they are human but there only difference is skin color
Book- Androids are shipped from a factory, they look like humans but have no empathy

Real- Slaves escape from the prosecution of there masters by the underground railroad
Book- Androids escape Mars by hijacking space ships

Real- Slaves are hunted once they get to the north and bouties are rewarded
Book- Androids are hunted on earth and bounties are rewarded

Real- Slaves are murdered for leaving their owners
Book- Androids are "retired" for leaving there owners

There are slight differences between androids and humans and there are slight differences between blacks and whites during colonization. I think that we should talk about this in class, to go deeper into the subject and find more parallelism real life.