Super Sad True Love Story Analysis

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A New Literacy Age in American Society Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart depicts a futuristic American society dominated by media. Technology is their most precious procession, everything revolves around their äppärät. Everyone is ranked based on their attractiveness and wealth. Most people want to stay young and live longer. Any written artifacts are almost non-existent, and literacy is not the same as before. People are speaking differently, using new words that older generations will not understand. The change this society has gone though has had its consequences. We need to put attention to these issues to better understand the message the book is conveying.
In the book a Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart makes it
Eunice clearly shows us that people do not have the intelligence, and the capacity to be able to understand to content of books. Eunice felt ignorant for not being able to comprehend the book and “she started to cry”. It seems that anyone would be as intimated and threaten by someone with that type of knowledge, that no longer exist. This society is living in a visual age, where written text simply does not exist. "By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent." This means that every agreement is read in an apparatus and then forgotten forever. Leaving no records, no proof, and no paper that can be kept for future references. No one cares about literacy, just like Eunice said, we are in a post-literate age; reading, and writing is no longer necessary.
In the super sad true love story acronyms are highly used, and Lenny being a novice to this new way is struggling to learn new vocabulary used by the latest generation. This shows how language has evolved, and a new literacy world emerging. It’s not necessarily the best thing for the United States.
I heard some funny retro expression like “JK,” which means one is “just kidding,” and “on the square,” which means one is not. I heard a familiar “JBF” and “TIMATOV!” but also “TPR!” and the “CFG!” “TMS!” (temporary motion sickness?), “KOT!,” and the more universal “Cute!” This is just how people talk, I thought to myself. Feel the wonder of the

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