I-robot

By Chris Camaraza

Literary technique

Are as follows -personification-Fore shadowing

FORE SHADOW

The fore shadow is shown in the story by making the robots have laws and not being able to lie to human. It fore shadows that something bad is going to happen.

PERSONIFICATION

By giving the Robots a personality. The author gives the robots a name voice, and an identity.

Background

The book was written in the year 1950 but the short story Liar was

written nearly 10 years earlier. The short stories in I-robot were all

written by Isaac Asimov.

Theme

The themes in in the story are as follows be careful of what you create and don’t let technology get to ahead of its self.

liar

This is one of the short stories in the book I-Robot. The story is about a robot being

able to read minds and tell what he see but if the data he finds can hurt another human

he must lie but lying can also hurt a humans emotions and in the end the Robot can not computer and has a malfunction.