PROSE PRESENTATION

GROUP 3

“TRUE LOVE BY Isaac Asimov”

- KANDIASALMA YUNITA SALSABILA (220222600231)

- KISWARANA SYAHIRA (220222611171)
 Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov is an American writer specializing in the science fiction
genre. Born on January 2, 1920, in Russia. He graduated from
Colombia University in 1939 and took a Ph.D. in chemistry from
Colombia in 1948. Night Fall, a short story Asimov wrote in 1941,
proved to be his ladder to literary success. His first book, Pebble in
the Sky," was published in 1950. And then his most famous set of
novels is a trilogy, namely Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and
The Second Foundation (1951–1953). Asimov died on April 6, 1992,
in New York due to kidney failure.

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 Story & Plot

True love is a story about the way artificial intelligence could

get out of control and take over human authority. In the story,
Milton creates a special computer program called Joe, which
has access to databases that cover the entire world's
population, to find his ideal partner. He hopes that Joe will
match him with the perfect partner using the provided
physical criteria. This leads to Joe finding his own true love
instead of Milton, and it ends with Joe betraying Milton and
getting him arrested so that he can meet his true love.

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 Characters
✣ Joe
Joe is the narrator of the short story, an intelligent computer program (AI, or artificial
intelligence). Joe is software that works with data, algorithms, and symbols and has been
programmed to learn a human language and help Milton find his right partner.

✣ Milton
He was the second main character in the short story, who is depicted from Joe’s
perspective. Milton is an unmarried computer programmer who has been single for forty
years and has been looking for the right partner for the rest of his life. Milton is quite a
perfectionist.

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 Setting
✣ Setting of Place
True love took place in the computer office where Milton works and where Joe is located.
It did not specify where it was.

✣ Setting of Time
The time setting in True Love is not specified.

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 Point of View

True Love uses a first-person narrative point of

view, in which Joe is the narrator of the story.

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 Theme

The theme of True Love is Milton's attempt to

find his perfect partner using technology (AI).

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 Symbol

✣ Multivac-complex refers to fictional computers that are referred

to by Isaac Asimov in several of his science fiction stories.

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 Style

The vocabulary used in the story is quite basic and

straightforward. The author uses words that are
connected to technology, data, and matchmaking
without using figurative language.

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 Moral Value

We should use technology wisely and not use it

for illegal actions because technology can be very
helpful but dangerous at the same time.

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 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!

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