Blog 14

In “Sleep Dealer” Memo explains how he wants to live the America dream, but what is the American dream? Memo’s fantasy of the American dream was ostensible said to be true, but perhaps not true. I think we can all relate to that because living in America is not all what it seems. For instance, we are suppose to have freedom of speech but we all know that is not the case.

Memo’s family was trying to tell him that what you see on TV in America is not the way you envision it to be. However Memo is a young man so he will have to experience some uncanny things before he understands his dream which is really a dystopia.

Now Memo is heading to America and he meets a young lady name Luz on the bus. Luz started out as a woman who wanted to sell his memory. She took Memo to a place where he got connected to nodes where he finally started working at cybermaquilas. Memo stayed focused so he would not digress from his mission, which was to live the American dream.

Luz on the other hand was working with a man name Rudy. Rudy's role in the America dream was a soldier who killed Memo's father. Later on Memo found out about Luz's unscrupulous role she played, which was selling memories of him. Memo become aloof and did not want to associate with her for some time. Then he also found out about the memories that Luz sold to Rudy who killed his father which I mentioned. Rudy felt horrible but it was to late because Memo's father was dead.

Finally "Luz, Memo, and Rudy worked together to have Rudy connect to his drone from Memo's Sleep Dealer so that Rudy can use it to blow up the dam near Memo's village and return the river to the villagers of Santa Ana del Rio". That was Memo's father dam and Memo's family was so excited.