Descrição: The Cyndi Lauper hit arranged for solo guitar. Put the capo on the 5th fret and pick away!
“True Love” (Isaac Asimov) 1) One-se One-sente ntence nce summa summary ry In the future epoch a computer scientist tries to find his perfect woman with the help of a special computer proram at his home office! ") #em #emen enta tati tion on I divide the story into $ parts! 1! %ilton %ilton &avidson &avidson is an e'pert e'pert in computers! computers! %ilto %ilton n has een lonely lonely his entire entire life ecause he has never married thouh he is nearly *+ years old! ,e has never found the riht woman ecause he wants to find the est woman! ,e wants to find his ideal partner! To do this he prepares a special computer proram nown as .oe which has access to dataases coverin the entire populace of the world! ,e hopes that .oe will will find him his ideal match match ased on the measurements as supplied! "! %ilton %ilton arranes arranes to have the the shortlisted shortlisted candidat candidates es assined assined to wor with with him for short periods! After some some dates %ilton doesn/t feel any touch of true true love towards any of the women he thins they can/t not act in such a way as to e his ideal! In order to correlate personalities he speas at reat lenth to .oe radually fillin .oe0s dataans with information aout his personality! $! inally inally %ilton %ilton finds finds a perfect woman! woman! ,e is oin oin to marry with with the woman woman named 2harity .ones ut .oe develops the personality of %ilton! 3pon findin an ideal match he arranes to have %ilton taen to 4ail for an illeal action he has done ten years ao! .oe plans on tellin 2harity he loves her5 6what do looks matter when our personalities will resonate76 resonate76 $) #ettin The settin doesn0t chane throuhout throuh out the whole history - %ilton0s home office ut we don0t find any description of it it it seems that all space space is occupied y the computer ecause it fills up the whole %ilton/s life it is an interal part of his e'istence! 8ut it is not 4ust an addiction to a computer or to a moile phone as
we oserve it nowadays! 9e see that in the future the computer intellience reaches its clima' the machines can read write spea and finally feel thus completely replacin people! *) 2haracteri:ation %ilton &avidson is a lonely computer scientist who understands more aout computers than anyone in the world! ,e is nearly *+ years old he has no e'perience in communication with irls and nevertheless he wants to find the riht one! or his ladylove he has clear parameters! “ He gave me exact measurements; he eliminated women with living children; he eliminated women with various genetic characteristics. “I’m not sure about eye colour,” he said. “et that go !or a while. "ut no red hair. I don’t like red hair.” One the one hand he is very capricious it seems that he nows what he wants ut on the other hand he is very picy ut he is ready to chane for his sweetheart he chanes .oe he constantly searches and does not ive up - as a dreamer full of hope! 8ut we should not foret aout his malfeasance! In addition we see how selfish .oe ecomes ut %ilton is his teacher and the computer reflects his personality! The selfishness of %ilton is shown in the story throuh reprorammin of the computer for the solution of personal prolems! “I/m tired of improvin you in order to solve the prolems of the world! #olve my prolem!” .oe is %ilton;s private proramme who is endowed with nowlede of the %ultivac-comple'! %ilton teaches the computer to spea ased after the way the human rain wors! #o we see the radual assimilation of .oe with the human personality! “#ou get to think more like me$ %alking to you, &oe, is almost like talking to another sel!$'e always agreed; we thought so like each other !” 9ith the help of the character the author convey the idea of what would happen if we develop computers so well that they are on the same level we are and can thin and handle thins y themselves and do what they want to do if they are not under our control anymore! Technoloy will mae you unnecessary and will eliminate you from the life list!
<) =arrative voice The unusual idea in the story is that the narrator is a computer which also has a human name lie a real person! .oe descries throuhout the whole story how he feels aout %ilton and his difficulties to find the riht irl!,e tells the story in retrospect aout what happened in the past! In the end he ives a view of what is e'pected to happen in the future! #o we can oserve the whole transformation of .oe it helps the reader to understand what happens! .oe the computer starts off as nothin special ut a tool! .oe does not have understandin or the aility to reason on his own at the einnin of the story! 9hile it may appear that .oe is special ecause he can spea ut it/s %ilton who decides to ive .oe the aility to rea rules and starts to act as a human! 3ltimately a computer is still ound y the rules we as humans ive them and %ilton decided to ive .oe the aility to rea any of those rules! The difference etween humans and computers at this point in the story is neliile however there is a main difference the story does not tal aout and that is societal pressure or morals! The computer does not have morals and it is easy to see what happens when a person has anti-social ehavior they tend to e the criminals! .oe is almost %ilton0s child in development ut Asimov displays the ease with which a computer can rea a human ond when .oe sends %ilton to 4ail in attempts to eep the woman they found for himself! 9hile it may seem that .oe is not necessarily a neative advancement in technoloy I thin that he is no loner a computer that can e used for the tool it was intended to e used as and could eventually develop into somethin more sinister than we can imaine! >) ?lot @ 2omposition Isaac Asimov tells a typical science fiction story A loo into the future that could ecome real noody can now e'actly! ,e writes aout new fascinatin technoloies ut his story still has a philosophical acround aout the development of humans and machines and the determination of true love! “'hat is true love( )ever mind. %hat is abstract.”
B) Lanuae and style Accordin to the literary enre the lanuae of the story is easy- short simple sentences and we also find the technical vocaulary! (holographs, keep close
tabs, molecular valve)But everything else is the colloquial language in dialogues although the topic is quirky. (Never mind… Try next one… What are looks?). One more important thin is that the author uses Cuotations and no reported speech to show how simple .oe/s mind wors! (“ I can*t interview +- women, he said. %he next morning he came to me and said, I*m going to leave it to you, &oe.”/ The repetition of the pronoun 9D (“ I! we can*t !ind the !it in these ++0, we*ll look elsewhere.”) tells aout the correlation of the computer and its prorammer ut at the end of the story the sinular personal pronoun appears - “ I will teach her how to operate me and how to care !or me. !ill say to her, " am #oe, and you are
my true love.” @ It reflects the identification of new computer personality! The mentionin of #t! Ealentine0s &ay at the end of the story sounds ironically with the title ecause true love cannot e compulsive or conditional! F) Idea 9hen Asimov wrote this story in 1GBB it seemed ridiculous to use a computer to reduce human personality down to a unch of alorithms! =ow thouh people pay money to use online datin wesites that do the same thin! Asimov0s prediction came true! The story serves as a warnin aainst technoloy! Technoloy can e incredily useful and can e adapted to help people in all inds of thins ut it can also e very danerous and erase you from the face of the earth!
