Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladie and Gentlemen

In society today people are seemingly becoming more and more materialistic. People are judging each other on, which gadgets you are the owner of and what kind of clothes you wear. The increased wealth in the western parts of the world equals a greater gap between the different financially blessed (or cursed?) classes of society. If you are rich, you get recognition. If you are poor, you are a failure. In the short story The Island, which was published in 1991, the author deals with the increased materialism and greed that we are facing today and asks the question, if even the family relations have been corrupted by the power of money. The passengers of the S.S. Ariel are all part of the upper middle class of the American society. They have not...