https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks Choose one of the themes and write 10-20 lines about this theme in the padlet. How is the novel about this theme and what aspects of this theme does the novel present? Your answer must use more than one example and one of them must be one of the quotations that you presented to each other. en-us 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC 2023-03-02 20:47:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4f1.png qrv6rfap5x https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811989 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811989 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811991 Humanity and working together
The way that the world begins to cooperate in order to understand and follow the existence of the Carls, humans have found something that they can agree on.
The fact that they are working together, is the reason to April's new fame and sudden change of lifestyle. If it wasn't for the people following her on social media, the story would be much more like a little girl trying to solve a problem all alone.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811991 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811992 In the beginning of the book, social media is not a very big part of everything, but as the things escalate, April becomes more and more addicted to social media. For instance when she is on her way to the warehouse in Chapter 22 on page 304, where she decides to go full livestream on Facebook, to reach as many people as possible. Another example where social media is a big theme, is when the Carl hand saves her, on p. 226, where the first thing she thinks about, is to film it, so she can post it on social media so everyone can see. The book shows how social media can take over your life and how it can come before everything else, even your own safety. It displays how much people will be willing to do for fame.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811992 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811993 The theme of social media is a big part of April all the way through the book. April gets famous on Youtube and is connecting with her fans on Twitter by posting a lot of things from her daily life. She also uses Facebook to live streaming and is participating in a lot of interviews in television. So a lot of things are based on social media, and all the gossip and the sequences are on social media. All the people are obsessed with social media. 

All the people are trying to get as much attention as possible and they are doing anything to ruin or help April. Maya describes that really well in this quotation on page 40:  "People are going to be looking for you, to follow you or to argue with you or just to see what you are up to. And when they find that you aren't there, some small percentage of them are going to just make a fake account."

It pretty much describes the community of today.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811993 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811994 Fame is a very important theme in "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing". Throughout the story April develops from an unknown girl who works only to get her paycheque, to someone famous who many people look up to. Her fame is triggered by the Carl, and thereby her development is also triggered by the Carls appearing. Another big development of hers was her attitude to fame and social media. On the plane to LA (p. 45) April says that: “I was virtually a social media celebrity now, and so I had to let the entire world know every time I experienced any inconvenience.”

]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811994 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811995 Social media plays a huge role in the book, at the start of the book the social media really doesn't play any role in April May's life and she barely uses them. But when April gets famous trough the social media, things change. Suddenly she is addicted to the social media and she feels like she has a responsibility to update her fans and communicate with them. “My phone felt like it weighed ten pounds in my hands, and I almost fell asleep, but then I realized I’d been neglecting Facebook.”. The social media controls her life in such a way that that they come before her own needs, like she can’t go to sleep before she has made an update. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811995 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811996 Social Media plays a big role in 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing'. This is seen in how the main character, April May, goes from barely using Social Media, to being obsessed with it. This change happens because she becomes famous, and therefor people wish to be able to learn more about her, so she has to get a presence om social media. This ends up being such a big part of her life, that she could easily spend whole days, just sitting on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and so on, just posting, commentating and answering stuff.
This goes to show how important Social Media has become for anyone who wants to get their word out, who wants to be seen.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811996 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811997 Social media plays a huge role in the book. It is used to communicate and spreed awareness about the Carls. However, social media also has downsides. April uses her social media platform to communicate with fans and spreed her opinion and way of looking at things. Though April seems to think, at first, when thinking about Peter and the Defenders is helping her get her point of view out, in reality it is also helping spreed their views and beliefs: “And of course, I had no idea of this then but by engaging with him I was affaring him and his wackos. Their ideas were getting more exposure through my larger audience.” p. 157 ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811997 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811999 The book describes how humanity can work together and make great results of that. In the dream in the book there are a lot of riddles and if one person should solve them all it would be impossible to do everyone. But because people over the internet can share information, they solve them all. I choose this quotation because its here they start to work together, and the information is not only shared for som few people. “But now people are out in the city solving these puzzles. There’s already a wiki and a subreddit and a bunch of semi private chat rooms.”.

]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638811999 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812000 Social media is a very important theme in the novel. It is expressed with April’s rise to fame, which takes place on social media only. The book shows some of the consequences of social media, both good and bad, and how it changes the person behind it, in this case April May. An example of her changing her behavior after social media took over, is when she tweeted on the plane travelling to LA (page 45). Here she says: ““I was virtually a social media celebrity now, and so I had to let the entire world know every time I experienced any inconvenience”. Until now she has not been making frequent status updates, but now that she is famous, she has begun to do so, because she feels it is the right thing to do, not because it actually is necessary.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812000 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812001 "By this time there were millions of people active in the Dreamer community."
The Carls are there to observe how people work together and how humanity works. How humans work together to solve this mystery is big part of the book's plot, story and concept behind it. There is both good and bad times, due to how humans work together.
Like in this quote, it is nice to see som many people doing a progress togehter, but there is also times where the population stand up against eachohter.

]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812001 luca21701 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812002 ''You're just trying to find an audience who will love you and i'm not enough''

Social media is central in the book, 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing'. Throughout the story, it is utilized in several different ways. A good example of this is spreading awarness of the Carls in the community. Social media on the other hand, also has alot of consequences, especially when paired with excessive fame. In the quote above, we get a sense of how April May's ''girlfriend'' is feeling about the whole situation that's going on at this moment. This choice of words in the above quote indicates that Maya is sick of the fact, April is prioritizing fame over Maya herself. Maya feels like all of this is caused by fame on social media.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812002 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812003 A big part of ”An absolutely remarkable thing" is about the theme of fame and specially how April May deals with her fame. April’s fame develops very fast, as the video she and Andy posted on the internet, goes viral. In the beginning, April doesn’t like the attention. She says: "I feel like I´m being asked to be something I´m not (p. 47 ll. 9-10). But as she gets more used to the fame, she starts liking the idea that people think her opinion matters. In the end, when things start to slow down, April realizes that she has become addicted to the fame. She says: "I was addicted to the attention and to the outrage and to the rush of being involved in something so huge, but more than any of that I was just addicted" (p. 288 ll. 7-9). The quotations describes how April´s attitude of being fame has changed. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812003 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812004 Social media has a big impact in the book. Social media almost gives a chain reaction to the two other themes of the book. It first plays a big role when sharing the video of Hollywood Carls and leads to the fame of April May which later leads people coming together to come together and explore the carls in their area. Although the fame leads to something great for April, the book also shows a negative side of social media like in the quote: "all this frustration I have turned outward onto the Defenders. I spend most of my waking time reading their threads, countering their arguments making videos, and fighting them on social media" (p. 205). The quote explains how April has directed all of time fighting the defenders online and obsessing over them which shows the bad side of social media. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812004 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812006 This book shows that in the darkest time people can stand together and help each other. April May said: "This is what humanity is, solidarity in the face of fear. Hope in the face of destruction". (Page 242, l. 13-14) She filmed a video where she said it just after the attack on her and the Carls. She is still strong and shows people, that nothing can bring humanity down. Not even some evil, because people stand together up to the evil with good. April needs help a few times through the book where a lot of people helps her. "After April made her plea, citizens all over the world rushed their Carls" (Page 331 l. 10-11). It shows that people help other there is in need of help. It also shows that when you stand together then you are much stronger than standing alone.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812006 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812008 Fame is one of the overall themes of the story. In the start it is not really a thing, but as April gets more and more into this Carl stuff, she also gets very famous very quick. It starts with being only people in the united states that knows of her, but as the story evolves, April is suddenly known all over the world. It has big consequences for April, she says herself: "i´m rich and famous, and suddenly i feel like i have no friends"(page 205). She's not saying that she doesn't have any friends, but just that she feels like it. She starts pushing people away and the idea of herself as an individual, and the impact she has on others, becomes extremely important to her, more important than anything else. April also puts fame into different categories, because as she says herself: "i've had the opportunity to do more thinking about fame than most people". This shows that it's something that interests April a lot. Though throughout the book you don´t get the feeling that April started all this because she wanted to get famous, she started it because the thing about the Carls interested her. Though it is easy to see that the fame gets the better of April. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812008 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812009 Fame is a major theme in this book and we get to see the consequences that it has on regular people. Most mortals are not used to being admired and known by so many people and in the long run a varity of diffrent outcomes can occur. April develops sort of a god complex, where she sees herself as the lead defender against the Carls (not to be confused with the group against her)

"I didn't feel like the woman i'd seen on the news clips. And i couldn't go elegant or glamorous-I was in a hospital gown" this quote captures her thoughts in the beginning of the book, where she tries to apper glamorous to her audience, but as more time goes by and after the first attack, she just couldn't pretend like that anymore. ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812009 kush0020 https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812010 Social media is the element in 'An Absolutely Remarkable' that is driving the story forward, and plays a big role in the protagonist's development. It all started in New York, when April saw Carl for the first time and made a video about him - people all around earth people are posting photos of the other of Carls: "Carl didn't just show up in New York, there's one in pretty much every city on Earth. There are at least sixty Carls, photos of Carls are popping up everywhere from Bejing to Buenos Aires." (p.20). Because of that she begins to understand that Carl was not just some generic statue, and because of that she started to give some 
controversial opinions to the rest of the world through social media, and later on became famous.]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/811u03vshslmdfks/wish/638812010