Blog Post #20: The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler- Setting

In this story The Future of Us, the two main characters Emma and Josh find a new website fifteen years in the future, and the website is Facebook. It's 1996 at the time so when they log onto their futures, they can see all their pictures, friends, status updates, and more. They soon try to change it and sometimes it turns out good, and bad. The two most important supporting characters are Kellan and Tyson, Kellan is Emma's best friend and Tyson is Josh's best friend. They don't know about the whole Facebook thing but are a really important part of the story, if they find out about it then they would be an even BIGGER part of the story! 

I think the setting really symbolizes what life should be. Before there was internet or Facebook or any other type of advanced technology people would actually call other people and talk to them instead of texting. And people would actually get up and go outside to hang out with their friends rather than video calling or chatting. I think the thing that makes this book so engaging is that they find things that we find so normal and simple today, for people back then to find so incredibly awesome and interesting. It makes you think, oh wow this is what they find so awesome? But back then it was incredible, like maybe in the future a machine that allows you to teleport from place to place is going to be invented, and maybe people in the future use it so often that it's no big deal, but if that was invented right now everyone would be so amazed at this technology. This setting is also in a way symbolizing life because it shows what life is supposed to be like, what life is here for. The reason why you live is to experience new things, new people, everything life has to offer, but you can't get all that from a computer which is why in a way this book is a way for us to realize we need to go out into the real world and do something with our lives! Log off any websites you're on and go have fun!

I think this setting is very significant to the story because it makes the story unique and different. This setting is very different from where most books are written today. In most books today the time periods are around the present or last few years or so, but this is one of the first books where it is in the modern sorta past. The setting and story together makes this book so engaging it is a book where the present meets the past and people learn about new things that are a daily thing for us today so it makes us think about how people back in the old days lived and what they did in their lives and what they would do for fun. 

In conclusion, I really like this book because the setting really makes you think  about what you have today. What if you didn't have email? Facebook? Twitter? Skype? What would you do then? Read a book? Go outside to hang out with your friends? This is what life should be and once was but now it's all about the internet and technology. This book makes you want to think to yourself, what would you do without all these things. Go do something with your life.