The Caves of Steel
For our first book report I chose the book The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. This book was set on earth far in the future, in around the year 3300. Most of the story takes place in either New York City, the largest city on Earth, or Space Town, the colony set up by inhabitants from one of the outer worlds. The two communities really show the different ways of life adapted by their population. Earth has become so over populated that the cities are now built mainly underground, just like caves of steel. The Spacers are descendants of Earthmen who left the Earth to live on the other planets. Their colony is a series of large domes with lots of space, just like when they had all that area on their other planets. Earthmen distrust the Spacers and the Spacers feel that the Earthmen are full of diseases that the Spacers had gotten rid of long ago. The Caves of Steel is about a man called Elijah Baley who is appointed the job of solving the murder of an important Spacer. Elijah was chosen because his friend, the commissioner, Julius Enderby, thought that he could ask a favor of him. Julius told Elijah that he would have to work and live with a robot until they solved the murder. This was a big favor to ask
In the man vs. himself conflict Elijah has to overcome his dislike of robots in order to work with Daneel to solve the main conflict. He has to allow himself to open his mind to see how the robot and/or Spacer would think so that he can approach this case from all angles. In The Caves of Steel there are three conflicts. The main conflict is man vs. man. The two alternate conflicts are man vs. machine and man vs. himself.
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Approximate Word count = 1337
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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