Alexander Davies Name___________________________________

Complete all answers on your Weebly site. A. Answer 15 of the following 20 short-answer essay questions: 1. What are all the people in white programmed to believe about the outside world and how they got to where they are? 2. What observation brings our main character to consider he isnt being told the truth about the outside world? 3. Where is the Biotech firm located? 4. Where are all the tubes going that the workers spend their days putting colored fluids into? 5. What is in the fluids? 6. From what you know about cloning what are some things about the birth of these clones that might be a little too science fiction? 7. What is the term or rule broken when Lincoln and Jordan get to close to each other and a supervisor separates them? 8. What happens to the pregnant woman after she has the baby? 9. Where does the baby go? 10. What is the maturity or intelligence level they are brought to? 11. What does Lincoln realize going to the island really means? 12. What is unusual about the trains? 13. What is the mechanism on the door at the clients apartment building that allows Lincoln to enter? 14. What do the sponsors believe to be true about their clones mental state 15. What is the term used in referring to his clone? 16. What kind of car does Lincoln get to drive? 17. When the company decides to recall all the clones, what is the specific human trait they are showing that they did not want in a clone? 18. What is the reason the company brought the clones to life and could not just keep them in a vegetative state? 19. Why is it so extremely important to the company to get Jordan back? 20. Why did the man hired with his armed team to capture the escapees decide not to turn Jordan in? B. Answer the following essay question in no less than 250-words. Write at least 6 sentences about your thoughts on cloning based on some of the themes presented in the movie.

Part A

1. All the people in white are programmed to believe that theyve been specially chosen to await the island after surviving the contamination. 2. The main character considers he isnt being told the truth about the outside world due to his many questions he ponders in the facility that go unanswered. His suspicion is reinforced when the supervisor proceeds to painfully test him without his consent. 3. The biotech firm is located in a secret underground laboratory in the Arizona desert. 4. All the tubes that workers spend their days putting colored fluids into are sent to the developing clone embryos. 5. The fluids consist of nutrients that aid in the stabilization of the clone embryos. 6. From what I know about cloning, the thing about the birth of these clones that might be a little too science fiction is that the clones are born as an adult, while in reality they should be a baby, regardless of their cloning. 7. The term or rule broken when Lincoln and Jordan get too close to each other and a supervisor separates them is proximity warning. 8. After the pregnant woman has the baby, she is killed. 9. The baby goes to a couple in the real world. 10. The maturity or intelligence level they are brought to is that of a 15 year old. 11. Lincoln realizes that going to the island really means the death of the lottery winner. 12. The trains can levitate high above the ground, in between the buildings. 14. The sponsors believe to be true that their clones mental state is vegetative, while in reality they are fully conscious. 16. Lincoln gets to drive his sponsors V-12-09 Cadillac. 18. The reason the company brought the clones to life and could not just keep them in a vegetative state is because they realized that without exposure to emotions such as joy, happiness, anger, and sadness, their organs were useless.

! ! Part B !

Based on the biotechs priority of keeping their conscious clones a secret, it is apparent that society is yet to accept human cloning as a societal norm. While the idea of prolonging ones death may pique peoples interest, the social implication, such as the abuse of an organism (human clone), may never be allowed in exchange for longer life. Human cloning has always carried a negative connotation, and this movie reaffirms the belief that cloning of a human is an inhumane process. This societal struggle is best expressed when the supervisor is asked why he feels the need to be at the same level of god, which he achieves through human cloning. In other words, humans werent meant to be able to recreate humans, for God is in charge of all creation, and one that desires this power shows signs of desiring divine right. After watching this movie, I have reflected deeply on the intricacies of human cloning. I feel that human cloning is wrong because it strays too far from natures path. I believe in medicine and doing everything we can with technology to improve the human lifespan; however, cloning is an act of playing God in

which people attempt to create a copy of a human without the need for nature or God. I find this to be very wrong, as it not only would be abusive towards the cloned organism, but would also disrupt societys ways. The future holds the answer to human cloning in society, yet that may never come into fruition if human cloning is in fact impossible.