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What does it mean to be a human? - Coggle Diagram
What does it mean to be a human?
Character depiction
Protagonist
Internal Dialogue
Has a family
Provides for them
Bread winner
Doesn't want to be fired
Somewhat sympathetic to Janet
Refused to bad mouth her to Greg Nordstrom, despite being offered a raise
Has his limits
Reported her for risking his job for arguing with the guest
Naively believes he's doing a good job
Working with his new coworker implies that he wasn't actually doing the job correctly
Open ended of what will happen to him at the end
Greg Nordstrom
Has to run a theme park
Naturally would get rid of those that bring it down
Janet
Older woman
not many job opportunities for her
Stays at a dead end job to make ends meet
Mother
Drug addict son
Uses her
Unconditionally loves him
Realistic depiction of how the characters will act
Dystopian conventions
Constant surveillance
Frequent guests expecting them to act like cave people
belittled for their condition
Have to fax a daily report everyday
Coworker watches them everyday
Supervisors make unexpected visits
Punished for mistakes
If they don't do their roles properly they're deprived of food
Immediate firing if they get reported
Only their coworker can get them fired
Anger will be shifted on the coworker than the company
Dehumanized
Have to live like actual cave people
separated from the outside world
fax machine is their only connection
Expected to be cave people 24/7
Are viewed as actual cave people
Disneyland
Emotional labor
Simulating a happy world
Walt Disney was upset with how dangerous and unhappy the outside world was
wanted a safe haven for his guest
Appalled by the workers lack of care
Strict guidelines were enforced to ensure a better guest experience
part of Walt Disney's vision of his park
Mimics how frustrated Nordstrom is with Janet's performance
Sometimes its required
People who work with people display some form of emotional labor
Aware of the expectations of how to behave when working with people
Rigid expectations can force it
Have to be cordial with rude or abusive guests or risk disciplinary action
Janet getting fired after lashing out at the guest
Customer is king
Their needs and enjoyment are the main priority
People are more likely to return if they believed the workers genuinely cared about them
The father was upset at Janet, and demanded she be removed
Has to be genuine
People can detect if someone is being insincere
Workers have a separate corporate identity
Which identity is real?
The guests notice how Janet is slightly off
Disneyland pt2
Simulating a perfect society
Influenced by the feel good era
Downtown Disney mimics the South in the 1800s
Erases any negative history such as slavery
Rewriting history to fit the company's morals
Workers have to look the part
Hiring people based on if they fit the company's image
strict dress code to fit the vision
Such as Janet and the protagonist having to dress the part
isolated from the world
Yet it still feels famililar
Nostalgia for the good old days
Makes people come back to feel happy again, after being upset with the outside world
Blurs the line between artificiality and reality
The son of a family implies that that what we're seeing in the story isn't how cave people actually lived
Focus on creating a utopia
If they show the negativity of the world then people don't want to come back
Then they'll lose revenue
In this case, the focus is more on perfecting the simulation of seeing actual cave people