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imported_admin · 26th January 2007, 12:30 AM

So what do you think?

JCM · 26th January 2007, 09:57 AM

I don't think he is human, or maybe he's just got something that's not human living parasitically inside him? Not a nice thing to contemplate. But throughout the book he feels and acts human - so does it matter whether he is or isn't?

jarvis · 8th March 2007, 02:28 PM

My views kept on changing throughout the book. At first, I thought he definitely was; now that I've finished it, I think he's probably not.....but I wouldn't put money on it!

The inability to cry at the end is meant to make us think that he realises he's not human, but there's masses of us who find it hard to cry. Maybe his treatment of Ryan in the final scene is more telling - this, to me, was so calculating, it was Robert's most 'inhuman' action of the whole book.

But then again, the description of falling in love was very, very human...

aemilie · 13th March 2007, 06:04 PM

why is it as simple and just 'yes' or 'no'?

sazzy · 17th March 2007, 01:54 PM

I think that he is but he isn't. I think it's more about - what makes us huma. So he isn't calcium bone, blood flesh as "humans" are but all the emotions are there. I think that's what truly makes Robert human!

Emmanovi · 25th March 2007, 04:34 PM

If looking (externally) human, acting for the most part human, and having human emotions makes you human, then yes, Robert is human.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck, it's a duck.

aemilie · 26th March 2007, 04:26 PM

LOL!!!
i think you may have hit the nail on the head!

Amber.sucks · 26th March 2007, 08:45 PM

for a while i was thinking that maybe robert was created by the same company that ryan works for or maybe he made him or something like that (or maybe its because i just watch too much astro boy, who knows?), but as you read further into it the things robert describes they seem like they couldnt of possibly have been made by humans, i dunno its confusing but i totally loved the fact that his name is robert smith, it made me love the book even more.

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26th January 2007, 12:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
imported_admin Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 6	Is he human? So what do you think?

8th March 2007, 02:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
jarvis Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3	Does the author even know?! My views kept on changing throughout the book. At first, I thought he definitely was; now that I've finished it, I think he's probably not.....but I wouldn't put money on it! The inability to cry at the end is meant to make us think that he realises he's not human, but there's masses of us who find it hard to cry. Maybe his treatment of Ryan in the final scene is more telling - this, to me, was so calculating, it was Robert's most 'inhuman' action of the whole book. But then again, the description of falling in love was very, very human...

25th March 2007, 04:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
Emmanovi Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 11	Well... If looking (externally) human, acting for the most part human, and having human emotions makes you human, then yes, Robert is human. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck, it's a duck.

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26th January 2007, 09:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
JCM Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2	I don't think he is human, or maybe he's just got something that's not human living parasitically inside him? Not a nice thing to contemplate. But throughout the book he feels and acts human - so does it matter whether he is or isn't?

13th March 2007, 06:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
aemilie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 30	why is it as simple and just 'yes' or 'no'?

17th March 2007, 01:54 PM	#5 (permalink)
sazzy Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 16	I think that he is but he isn't. I think it's more about - what makes us huma. So he isn't calcium bone, blood flesh as "humans" are but all the emotions are there. I think that's what truly makes Robert human!

26th March 2007, 04:26 PM	#7 (permalink)
aemilie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 30	LOL!!! i think you may have hit the nail on the head!

26th March 2007, 08:45 PM	#8 (permalink)
Amber.sucks Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3	for a while i was thinking that maybe robert was created by the same company that ryan works for or maybe he made him or something like that (or maybe its because i just watch too much astro boy, who knows?), but as you read further into it the things robert describes they seem like they couldnt of possibly have been made by humans, i dunno its confusing but i totally loved the fact that his name is robert smith, it made me love the book even more.