6.1 Comprehension : "Technology Apocalypse"

DIRECTIONS:  Refer back to the story to answer the questions.

Technology Apocalypse

By Lucy Clarke, Adapted by KHSD Staff

         When I woke up things were different. The people I once knew had gotten older, fine lines had appeared onto their faces. They were almost unrecognizable. I woke up to find my wife pushing a rectangular device as if her life depended on it, as if the existence of the world depended on that one thing. I heard the sound of loud beats and weird music coming from the stereo. However, this was much different than the music I remembered. Fun, upbeat and happy songs are now loud, stupid noise. The world I once knew had been taken over.

         So, by now I'm guessing you are wondering who I am. My name is Layton, Layton Jameson. I also bet you are wondering what happened to me. Let's just say I fell asleep for a long time. However, when I say a long time I don't just mean days or months. I mean years, as in ten years. Can you imagine that? Falling into a deep sleep one day and waking up ten years later to see the world you once knew gone.

          I remember the day I came home. I walked through the front door expecting to see my small children and instead I was met by two teenagers. They also had one of these rectangular devices each and they seemed stuck to them, like it was a magnetic force or something. The sound the device (which I came to know as 'iPhones') made was awful. It sounded like a doorbell or bird that always went on. It didn't even stop; it went 'ding' for hours. These two toddlers I once knew had become unmoving teens. The world I once knew had disappeared and in its place was a technology apocalypse.