Nosedive - Written Response

Nosedive

11. How are adults constructed in this text?

The adults were constructed as fakes. Faking their emotions to appear nice to someone. They are also constructed as people who stereotype others by their rating.

28. What kind of social reality does this text portray?

This text portrays the social reality of celebrities, how they have to act in front of a camera to persuade the audience to believe what their emotions are. They also have to fake their feelings for each other to make a scene more believable.

29. How does this text construct a version of reality?

This text portrays our lives with social media, how people would do anything to impress others and gain likes. Combined with how people would compare themselves to others, like their body, appearance and other features in their lives, changing their perspective on life by always being jealous of what others have.

34. What different interpretations of the text are possible?

Although people fake their feelings to be liked by others, this aspect in the text can be interpreted in real life even without social media. People fake their emotion in order for them to get what they want, they act nice to someone and once they aren't together they start talking behind other's backs.