On pages 313 - 315, a group of students are discussing the purpose or justification for Maxfield Academy. What makes students like Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield? After finishing the book, explain the purpose of the school as you understand it.
To make a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is some one who is lost. All of the students at Maxfield have nobody else. To them Maxfield becomes a home and safety where they can belong. According to page 23 "Those had been questions on the scholarship application, though they referred it to a personality profile. How many close friends do you have? Who do you confine in? I must have answered it right none and no one."
ReplyDeleteTo me Maxfield is a escape for young adults from there life a chance to find happiness and friends. Maxfield academy becomes a home to those where no where to go and no one to talk to. Maxfield in my understanding in the end is experiment for children who feel like they don't belong anywhere, they want to see what there reactions are when they do something. Plus it is a place for where they can maybe test there weird androids in a environment with people who won't notice or can tell the difference if it is real or not.
Emily Richards
ReplyDeleteA good candidate for Maxfield Academy is someone that has no connection to anyone at all. Students like Benson Fisher have no one at home and most don't even have a home. They are all foster or homeless kids that move around a lot. On page 22 it states, "A whole school full of people like me-no friends, no family. No one who would notice that we were gone." They need kids that can stay for a while and don't have any connections. Benson was perfect because according to the text he had stayed with thirty-three foster families, the longest stay being four and a half months. This is exactly what the people running the school needed. From my understanding the school is a training facility for androids. The androids need to get used to the being around people and acting like them. The real kids are helping the androids get used to an environment with real people. I think that the people creating the androids are trying to train a superhuman race and Maxfield Academy is the training camp.
Katlynn Hanks
ReplyDeleteThere are some key factors to be a good candidate at Maxfield Academy. One of the requirements is not having any friends or family that will miss you. Benson was an orphan and never really made any friends, so no one would notice his disappearance. The school is a testing facility for the androids. The people who run the school needed humans to help test the androids for whatever reason. They needed to humans to help point out mistakes in the android's code. Like with Jane. She didn’t know a lot of media stuff as Benson had pointed out to her. Then once the head people got wind of it they fixed the problem.
Maria Whitaker
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher was a good candidate for Maxfield Academy because he had nothing to lose and wasn't emotionally tied to anything or anyone outside the school. The school knew that, if the students they chose to attend had families or friends outside the school, most, if not all of them, would want to escape to their loved ones once they realized they were trapped. Kids with no emotional ties outside the school would be less likely to want to escape, because their life at Maxfield Academy would be nicer than their life in the real world. They would have nowhere to go and no one to go to once they escaped. The Academy also knew that, if the students had no family, no one would notice their absence/abduction. On page 21, Becky asked Benson who he would call to help him escape: "I decided to lie. 'I have lots of friends.' 'Do you?' She said, raising an eyebrow.... I shook my head. 'Not really. But how do you know that?... Wait. You're the same, aren't you?'... 'Yes,' she said. 'All of us are like that.' I couldn't believe it. A whole school of people like me- no friends, no family. No one who would notice that we were gone."
As I understand it, the purpose of Maxfield Academy is to test the androids. At the end of the book, a group of students escape Maxfield only to be attacked by some of the students who turned out to be androids and then stopped by Mrs. Vaughn. On page 359, Curtis rebelliously shouts at Mrs. Vaughn that she can't test the students anymore. The book then says, "'How very egocentric,' [Mrs. Vaughn] said, her voice cold and cruel. 'We weren't testing you. We're testing them.' She gestured at the bodies of Joel and Mouse.'" By now we know that Joel and Mouse were androids. From this incident, we learn that the purpose of Maxfield is to experiment with the androids, rather than the humans.
What makes students like Benson Fisher good candidates for Maxfield is that they have no one out in the world. The reason not having someone out in the world is good for Maxfield is because Maxfield doesn’t have to worry about dealing with people who might be looking for them. So Maxfield can take people like Benson because no one is going to be looking for him. If someone had family or friends, Maxfield wouldn’t take that person because they know that their family or friends would be looking for that person. If I had a son and all of a sudden he disappeared, I would be looking for him! But Benson has no one who actually cares about him. Benson and the other students in Maxfield have no family, that’s why they are good candidates for Maxfield. To my understanding Maxfield’s purpose is to convince students like Benson to apply to Maxfield Academy. Maxfield’s purpose is not just to have the students attend to their school, but more. The school wants the students that have no family out in the world so that the students can help the school test the androids. At very end of the book Ms. Vaughn tells Benson that the school was never testing students like him, but the school was testing the androids. The people who control the school needed to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment. Maxfield is training camp where no one can escape.
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ReplyDeleteWhat makes people like Benson Fisher amazing candidates is that there is nobody to care about them. Benson is a foster kid that moves around all the time and doesn't actually have anybody to care for him. If my kid went to an academy and out of the blue went missing I would start look for him and would start to investigate Maxfield Academy. There is nobody that would be worried for the kids at the academy because they almost have the same stories like Benson. The school needs kids like this because it is a controlled testing ground for the robots. If I was in charge of Maxfield that is exactly what I would do is look for kids with no ties to family and nobody would come after them. Maxfield is a training camp where nobody can escape and nobody is going to find them.
A student like Benson Fisher a perfect candidate is the fact that he does not have any sort of real family and originally just moves through foster homes and that is what Maxfield is looking for kids with no home and the world has nothing to do with them. At the end of the book Mrs. Vaughn talked to Benson that the school took in children with no homes and wanted to experiment on the robots so they can feel what humans do to act, talk, and do everything humans do and interact with them. If she did accept kids with family's Maxfield would be shut down and she would be taken away like it says in the book Benson said " I will get out of here, call the police and Maxfield will shut down." That is exactly what will happen if the police found out. All-in-all, Maxfield was just a school to experiment on the androids.
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ReplyDeleteA kid like Benson fisher is a perfect candidate for a school like this because he has no real connections to any family of friends. Since he does not have any connections, he does not have anyone looking for him or interested in his whereabouts. This is the perfect student that Maxfield is looking for to test. After finishing the book I understand the school as to be a testing facility not for the human kids but for their androids. They want to see how their creations will act. They want to know what strategies they will use, if they will act like real human, or have a malfunction. With Maxfield being where nobody can escape, and nobody will find them, it is a great way to test their androids.
Maximus Swan
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would be someone who has no family or friends. For example, Benson Fisher was a good candidate for Maxfield Academy because he had no family, and he was a foster kid who moved around a lot. For instance, on page 3, Benson says, “I’d racked up thirty-three foster families all around the city since I’d entered the program as a five-year-old. The longest had been a family in Elliott where I’d stayed for four and a half months". Therefore, since Benson had moved around a lot and been to lots of different families and schools that made him a good candidate for Maxfield Academy. In my opinion, I think that the purpose of the school was to see how the androids would perform around humans. I feel like Benson is the only real human and the rest are androids.
Caden Johnson
ReplyDeleteTo be a good candidate at Maxfield Academy you must not have no one to turn to like family or friends. Benson fisher is in foster care which means his family is away and cannot hear from him. He also has no friends to talk to if he has moved around all of his life to the point that since he does it so often he doesn't have time to adapt to gain or earn them. As I understand it, the school is a place to test their androids. They do this in an environment where there are kids so that they can compare the two. In this environment it would be perfect to test the androids.
Robert Breault
ReplyDeleteTo be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy you have to be lost, have no family or contacts, be able to be easily manipulated, and have been moved alot never being able to make connections with anyone. On page three it says so page 3, Benson says, “I’d racked up thirty-three foster families all around the city since I’d entered the program as a five-year-old. The longest had been a family in Elliott where I’d stayed for four and a half months." This says that Benson had been moved alot and never had solid connections, therefore he'd be a perfect candidate for Maxfield Academy
Iliana Hockenberry-Grimes
ReplyDeleteIn order to be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy you need to be somebody that nobody cares about, knows,or remembers. Many times the ideal candidates are lost in the system or a runaway. They don't have close friends, they move around a lot, they don't have a family or their family doesn't care. If they have no ties or connections with the outside world it means that nobody will ask questions or call demanding visitation. It makes them expendable, it allows them disappear off the face of the world without anyone missing their existence. Moreover, if they escape they have no one to run to outside, no one to prevent them from finding the escapee. Another benefit to having no ties or connections is that it makes it easier for the student to assimilate into life in isolation at Maxfield Academy. I believe that Maxfield Academy serves two purposes, testing the androids and studying and analyzing how humans trust each other and go from a natural state and enter a social contract. On page 359 Mrs. Vaughn says to Curtis, "We weren't testing you. We're testing them." insinuating that the purpose of Maxfield was to study the androids. Putting human students through the tests might seem as though they are using them as a control. However, I prefer to look past the obvious, and what I see is that they are testing the humans with trials that affect trust, like exposing the androids and turning friend against friend.
The justification for Benson being a good candidate for Maxfield academy is hinted heavily throughout the book. In the first chapter Benson describes his backstory, in which he describes many things that probably wouldn't look good on a resume. Much to his surprise, the “prestigious private school” accepts him in. Keep in mind that he’s an orphan. Later in the novel, Benson discovers that everyone in the school has no outside connections, meaning that nobody would come looking for them if they went missing. As Mrs. Lane would say: HINT HINT *Wink Wink (some of you guys will get this reference, if you don't, its just an inside joke). In other words, if one of the students somehow DIED, nobody in the outside world would know. Perfect conditions to test DEMENTED EXPERIMENTS *cough cough. So now that we have figured out that the school is the perfect most inhumane test environment, the author probably was thinking of what exactly he wanted to test. He probably just finished watching “Bicentennial Man” or “I Robot” when the grand idea popped into his head. It probably went something like “Dude, I could totally wreck Benson's day and give him PTSD by killing off Jane and letting Benson figure out that she's actually an android”. His idea worked, and resulted in one of the craziest plot twists I have ever read. But the reason for the robots being tested in a controlled test environment with real people? Actually pretty easy to explain. My theory is, like with computers of this day and age, machines have to be tested and run through diagnostic tests and scenarios before they are RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. Same thing with this school. This theory is even backed up when Mrs. Vaughn says herself that they're not testing the humans, but testing the synths. It's kind-of like an advanced artificial intelligence. Except the non bipedal versions can simply be tested in a lab and be run through diagnostic routines and scenarios by simply pushing a couple of keys. But the ones that walk on two legs however, are a different story. Sense these androids are more advanced than a box full of circuits, they require different testing environments. To ensure that they can blend in with regular humans when they are released to the outside world, they needed to act and think like a regular one too. This is where the school comes in. A bunch of normal teenagers in a secluded environment, AKA: the perfect and most unpredictable test environment to test a robot that is designed to act like a normal human. And if a student discovers that another student is a robot, just kill him. Easy as pie. Long story short: the school is used to run tests and diagnostics on the robots before they are released to the public.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if I figure out that any of you are robots… there's going to be a WWIII
Ellie Williams
ReplyDeleteWhat makes students like Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is that they were all foster kids and didn’t have any friends or family that they would miss or that would miss them. This is shown on page twenty-two after Benson realizes that Becky knows the truth about him not having any friends. She says, “‘All of us are like that.’ I couldn’t believe it. A whole school full of people like me-- no friends, no family. No one who would notice that we were gone.” It was important for the school to find kids that didn’t have any emotional connections to anyone or anything so that they would have less of a desire to run away. They wouldn’t want to run away as much as someone who had a lot of family and friends back home because they wouldn’t have anyone or any place to go back to. The purpose of Maxfield Academy as I understand it was to assess the androids. I think this because on page three hundred fifty-nine, Curtis shouted to Ms. Vaughn, “You can’t test us anymore.” and then Ms. Vaughn said, “‘How very egocentric,’ she said, her voice cold and cruel. ‘We weren’t testing you. We’re testing them.’ She gestured at the bodies of Joel and Mouse. The androids? Jane? ‘We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment.,’ she said scornfully. ‘This was never about you.’”
Jordan Moon
ReplyDeleteOn pages 313- 315, a group of students are discussing the purpose or justification for Maxfield Academy. Personally, I believe that what makes students like Benson Fisher good candidates for Maxfield Academy is their lack of ties to the outside world, and having a miserable life outside the school. First of all, none of the people in the school from the school have much of ties to the world outside of Maxfield Academy. Many are foster kids or were homeless, and had no friends or family that would miss them, let alone try to come and find them. They would just be believed to be “lost in the system.” They also all had horrible lives outside of the school, living on the street or going from home to home. Why would these kids what to leave? They have a nice place to live, where you’re protected, have food, and are getting a good education. And where would they go if they would escape? They have no one to turn to, and they will have to go back to their old miserable lives. This is what I believe the creators train of thought is. After finishing the book, I have two things that I believe could be the school’s purpose. At first, I believed that it could be to test humans reactions to these different situation, and seeing how they will react to different scenarios. But, after taking a closer look, I do not believe that this is the case. I feel at the beginning of the book the author was giving aways subtle hints that this place may be testing the androids, not the humans. For example, on page 49, Mason says, “I think they’re testing us. We’re rats in a maze.” Now this is a statement that Mason says many times threw the book, often mumbling, “Rats in a maze,” whenever something weird happens. I believe that the androids are the rats in the maze, and they are just using the humans to see how they interact with them, and if they are convincing enough. In the end of the book, Mason turns out to be an android, showing that he probably had some knowledge of what was going on. Another reason that I believe that they are testing the androids is because at the beginning of the book, on page 2, Mrs. Vaughn says, “Maxfield is the pinnacle of educational research,” and uses words like pedagogy and epistemology which both mean the research of what way of teaching is the best. I believe that she is referring to the research of what the best way to teach the androids how to fit into society is what this is researching. I believe this because why would they be researching the best way of education the humans is they didn’t ever have plan to release them? How would they know if this form of education is the best? Overall, I think this could have a dual purpose, seeing how the android interact with the humans in a controlled environment, and seeing how to best teach androids to into a society.
Matt Swirczek
ReplyDeleteStudents like Benson Fisher are good candidates for this school because he is a foster kid who goes home to home and school to school. No one will know they are gone and they would have no friends to contact or anything because they are going school to school. Also they would of not had any real family to talk to. As I start to understand the purpose of the school is to see what happens if there are no teachers or adults around ever. Also so that they can see how well androids do with real people and real human situations. Another reason is to see how people will handle when they can never leave the school.
I believe that what makes students like Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is because of the student’s background. Students who have no family, no relatives, no friends, and who nobody who would be worried about would be accepted into Maxfield Academy. Those kind of students would be accepted into Maxfield Academy because the school would not have to worry about families coming and asking about the disappearance of the their children. To students who have nothing left in life, Maxfield Academy would sound like a real home. Maxfield Academy would be a place that no student would want to leave because their lives would be much better at the school than outside the school. After finishing the book, my understanding of the purpose of the school is that it is a training camp for robots/ androids. I mean why not? The school is practically out in the middle of the woods where nobody will suspect an experiment is been done. This experiment happens to be mixing humans with robots and see what the result will come out to be. Also the school will keep on having their experiment because based on the kids that are accepted into the school, no one will want to go back to their old life.
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher is a good candidate from Maxfield Academy because he doesn't have any family. On page 22, it states, "A whole school full of people like me--no friends, no family. Nobody that would notice we were gone." The perfect candidates for Maxfield have nothing and nobody left in life. After finishing the book, I believe the purpose of Maxfield Academy is be a training facility for the androids. The experiment mixed androids and humans to see how they would adapt to the situations they were placed in. On page 359, it states, "'We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment...'" So unlike Benson had originally thought, they (humans) were not being test, but the androids were.
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher is a good candidate from Maxfield Academy because he doesn't have any family. On page 22, it states, "A whole school full of people like me--no friends, no family. Nobody that would notice we were gone." The perfect candidates for Maxfield have nothing and nobody left in life. After finishing the book, I believe the purpose of Maxfield Academy is be a training facility for the androids. The experiment mixed androids and humans to see how they would adapt to the situations they were placed in. On page 359, it states, "'We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment...'" So unlike Benson had originally thought, they (humans) were not being test, but the androids were.
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher is a good candidate from Maxfield Academy because he doesn't have any family. On page 22, it states, "A whole school full of people like me--no friends, no family. Nobody that would notice we were gone." The perfect candidates for Maxfield have nothing and nobody left in life. After finishing the book, I believe the purpose of Maxfield Academy is be a training facility for the androids. The experiment mixed androids and humans to see how they would adapt to the situations they were placed in. On page 359, it states, "'We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment...'" So unlike Benson had originally thought, they (humans) were not being test, but the androids were.
ReplyDeleteWhat made Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is because he didn't have any friends or family. He had no one to stay in contact with and has been in years of foster homes with people that could care less about him. On page 22 Becky says, "A whole school full of people like me--no friends, no family. Nobody that would notice we were gone." Then Benson replies, "They take the ones that no one will miss." I think that the purpose of Maxfield Academy was to test the androids that they have created. I think that it was to see how the the students would adapt to the androids and maybe about the situation they were in. I'm saying this because Maxfield Academy was in the middle of no where, miles and miles from a real road. You could get into the Academy, but no one could get out. For instance, on page 359 it states, "We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment.." Showing you that the "Controlled Environment" was in the middle of no where with kids who didn't know that they were there to test the androids.
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ReplyDeleteStudents like Benson made great candidates for Maxfield Academy because they don’t have connections to other people outside the school. Benson didn’t have a family, friends, or even a long-term school before he came to Maxfield. This made him the perfect candidate because no loving parent would try to contact him or worry and try to find him. Benson explains this himself on page 22 when he says, “If the school was picking the kids who wouldn’t be missed, then were they ever going to let us go? No one was going to come looking for us. Nobody cared.” This disconnection from people outside the school would also make the candidates less likely to try to escape because they know they have nothing to go to if they did escape.
ReplyDeleteFrom my understanding, the purpose of the school is to train androids. I think that whoever is the mastermind behind everything is using the school as a sort of “scientific lab” where they can find the glitches in the androids that separated their characteristics from the characteristics of real humans. Maybe the plan was that once all the glitches were combed out, the robots would be used for another purpose outside the school. I don’t know what this purpose is, but with all the killing innocent people the school did, it can’t be good.
Students like Benson Fisher make a good candidate for Maxfield because he doesn’t know anyone outside of the school and no one will miss him or come looking for him. On page twenty-two, the author states, “I couldn’t believe it. A whole school full of people like me- no friends, no family. No one would notice that we were gone.” The purpose of Maxfield Academy was to have most of the students be human who had no connections to the outside world so no one would come looking for them. Then the school would add the androids to the school and get them used to being around humans. On page 359, Curtis shouts at Mrs. Vaughn, “You can’t text us anymore!” She was amused at what Curtis said and replied with, “How very egocentric. We weren’t testing you. We were testing them.” She later said that they had to test the androids in a controlled environment. The purpose of the school was to train and experiment with the androids, not the humans.
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ReplyDeleteMaxfield academy wants to get people who are alone. The school wants kids who don't have any real ties to the outside world. The school obviously does not want to be caught because of what they are doing. If they got kids who had a family, then when they disappeared, the kids family would find them, and the school would be closed. That's why people like Benjamin are a good candidate: because no one will miss them, or try to find them. Also, people like Benjamin are alone, and that makes them more likely to stay, and not escape because the school is actually better then their previous lives.
I think the purpose of the school is to see how the robots reacted, and adapted to be in a human environment. The kids weren't being tested like they thought, they were just pawns for the android experiment. Mabey their getting ready to put the androids in the real world...
I also thought it was interesting how the robots in the school were modeled after real people, like how Jane was a real person too. The school might be trying to see if the androids can blend in with humans, trying to create an essence of life?
Maxfield Academy on the whole doesn’t make a lot of sense, but there is a pattern when it come to picking their students. Ideal Maxfield student’s like Benson are usually passed over, invisible. They have no one to miss them, or care about where they went. On page 22 the author states,”A whole school of people like me-no friends, no family. No one who would notice that we were gone.” The school chooses detatched kids, so that their program will fly under the radar.
ReplyDeleteAll through the book it was assumed that Maxfield was a training facility for the kids, but at the very end of the book it was discovered to be the other way around. The children proved to be a background for the Androids. On page 359, Mrs. Vaughn tells Benson,”We weren't testing you. We're testing them.” A few lines down from that quote she said,” We have to test the programs somewhere in a controlled environment.” Then, on a more personal note, she adds, ”This was never about you.” The purpose of Maxfield was to test the Androids for a certain purpose. Given the way Maxfield dispenses with human lives, I assume that it cannot be for good.
I believe that what makes people like Benson a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is his lack of connections to society. There would be no one to miss or notice if he had gone. I believe the purpose of the school was not to train them to be soldiers or to see how those kids acted out, but to see if the people who run the school could make androids good enough to blend in with the rest of the world. Mrs. Vaughn needed somewhere to test them and they couldn't just throw them out in the world for fear that it would end up like what happened to Benson. The androids could not be discovered, so they need trials until it is perfect. The kids like Benson are used as "lab rats" and are learning things that are completely irrelevant to what they would ever do in life. The school was just an experiment to help develop the androids further, so they could become more modern and fit in with the rest of the world.
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ReplyDeleteA good candidate for Maxfield school would be children without families and friends. Maxfiled was looking for students that would not be missed or looked for if they went missing. Benson makes a good candidate for Maxfield because he was a foster child that had been moved from home to home. He had no family or friends so nobody would report him missing or come looking for him. Maxfield school was using the humans to test the androids programs in a controlled environment. On page 359-373 on my kindle Ms. Vaughn says" We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment," This was never about you". The whole time Benson and myself was trying to figure out what they were testing the kids for or what were they trying to prepare them for some kind of war. It was a twist to find out the school was set up for training programs.
Gracee Mesloh
ReplyDeleteMaxfield Academy are looking for kids that don't have any family or friends. It states that in page 22 "A whole school full of people like me--no friends, no family. Nobody that would notice we were gone." Maxfield was looking for students that would not have been looked for or missed by family and friends. On page 359-373 it stats Ms. Vaughn says, " We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment," This was never about you". With that being said its clear that they were just testing humans with robots.
Andrew kelsey
ReplyDeleteMaxfield academy is obviously a twisted place. Which makes it strange to think that students like Isaiah are as ludicrous as they are for being settled with staying at the school. Students are thinking they are at the school for a reason that involves them. Such as being trained or tested for something outside of the school. Benson is a good Candidate for Maxfield because he does not have this mindset that will hold the students back from escaping the school. He is also not afraid to stand out. In fact, he wants to stand out he wants people to know that this school is wrong and he is not okay with staying there and pretending that these insane things that are taking place never happened. He started to become more comfortable when he fell in love with Jane but once he found out the truth he knew he couldn't hold it back. The person he was in love with was an android. He had to show everyone and in doing so he thought they would all be convinced to listen to him but even then some still stayed in the school. Benson's determination was the reason they were able to get somewhere even if it was almost a fail it may pay off in the next book.
Lynn Robison
ReplyDeleteWhat makes students like Benson Fisher a good canidate for Maxfield Academy is someone who likes distance and doesn't trust anybody. A foster child for example may understand the withdrawls and could be a good applicant for Maxfield Academy. From what I understand the purpose of the School was to test the androids they had created. It would be like taking a Civilian and forcing them into Military life. It's a whole new life style. Although Maxfield Academy is no Military it's much more of a trust nobody and be anti social type school. You have kids who have to follow rules and then there's Gangs who either enforce or refuse to follw them. It's a risky School I couldn't find many people wanting to go to. Much like some real Schools you may feel like Benson and lose faith in Peoples trust. But in the end Bensons determintaion to not give up was the only true reason the school made it as far as they did.
Hamilton Sommer
ReplyDeleteI believe that a student like Benson Fisher is a great candidate for Maxfield is mainly because of he has no family that would notice when he would be gone. This is because when a student would come home, no one would wonder where or why someone didn’t show up. On page twenty-two, the author says, “A whole school full of people like me- no friends, no family. No one would notice that we were gone.” But this isn’t the only reason they chose people with no family. Also because the candidates would have nothing to go to if they did escape. This would make the students less likely to try to escape. After reading the book, Variant, I found that the purpose for Maxfield Academy was to test the androids that they have created. I also believe that the did this because they wanted to see how the students would adapt to the androids. On page 362 it states, "We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment." In his case, the controlled environment would be at Maxfield Academy.
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ReplyDeleteBenson was a good candidate for Maxfeild Academy because he was an orphan. He didn't have or need him when he disappeared. Maxfeild Academy is odd. It's a facility that tests androids. The school needed humans to test the android code. The school picked humans that didn't have friends or family. The humans soon grew relationships like they never have before. Benson connected with people, robot and not. He was surprised when he found out that Jane was a robot. But he later found that he still had relationships with them.
ReplyDeleteBenson was a good candidate for Maxfeild Academy because he was an orphan. He didn't have or need him when he disappeared. Maxfeild Academy is odd. It's a facility that tests androids. The school needed humans to test the android code. The school picked humans that didn't have friends or family. The humans soon grew relationships like they never have before. Benson connected with people, robot and not. He was surprised when he found out that Jane was a robot. But he later found that he still had relationships with them.
ReplyDeleteI believe Benson is a good candidate for Maxfield because he is truly variant. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of variant is “Not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.” In this way, Benson actually helps Maxfield Academy. He is new and rebellious and provides another variable in the school’s experiment. He brings to the table something none of the other students truly have, the will to break free and be independent. This makes sense considering he was pushed around from house to house in the adoption system his entire life. As Ms. Vaughn specifically stated near the end of the book, the school was designed to train the androids to become more human-like. I believe the school was trying to train them to have artificial intelligence, just like a human would naturally have. This theory would explain why the school was allowing the students to play paintball, since this would force the androids to figure out how to come up with strategies themselves. Meanwhile, the school taught courses such as aesthetics and the meaning of beauty in an effort to train the androids to intrinsically think and feel like humans. Performing a function, like a machine does, and being able to emotionally reason are separate abilities, and Maxfield may have been the android’s bridge between the two. Constant interaction with normal humans would easily build the androids’ ability to imitate them. As such, this is why Benson is a perfect candidate for Maxfield; none of the other student have a will to be independant. They all want to fully rely on the school for everything. Even the Society and Havoc kids, as different as they may seem, are the same in this respect. Benson however is truly variant and is adding another variable into the experiment to see how the androids handle someone different.
ReplyDeleteI believe they chose Benson because he was absolutely against the school. He wasn't agreeing to act like the school was good and normal because he new it wasn't. I think that the school new he wouldn't agree and that he would want to get out. They wanted to see whether the robots could even full someone what was trying to figure out every secret about the school.
ReplyDeleteThe school thought that Benson would be a good candidate because he was committed to escaping the school and getting to the police. The school wanted to see if even somebody who didn't trust people at the school would trust the robots.
I think that what makes Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is that everyone there has similar problems. The people who they pick are people who won’t be missed. I think it also has to do with the fact that these people don’t trust easily. I think that it’s what Benson did to make things different, he trusted people. I understood the purpose of the school was to be something to where they could test there androids on human people to see how well they blended in. I think that another reason of why Benson was a good candidate for the school is that he stood out differently from the other kids. He wanted to make a difference.
ReplyDeleteMaxfield may look like an ideal place for students that need a home, students like Benson Fisher. Benson has been in foster homes for years and does not have any real ties to anyone, but as he soon realizes there is a reason Maxfield accepted him. The school doesn’t want any family or friends nosing around as they may find out what really happens there. Maxfield Academy is really a place for research scientists to test how androids respond to real life situations. The school is not a school; it is a laboratory. The school betrayed the trust of their students.
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher was a great candidate for Maxwell Academy because he was a foster child. He had no relatives, no place to call home and was desperate to belong and fit in somewhere. Any child like Benson would jump at the chance to go to a classy private so called school where they could possibly find many new friends and have the chance at a good education. Maxwell Academy in my opinion is a testing facility for the androids. The androids needed to be tested in a real-world scenario without the chance of law enforcement stepping in, resulting in the creation of the academy. Maxwell Academy lets the creators of the androids work out the kinks and problems before using them for whatever master plan they have created.
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher was a great candidate for Maxwell Academy because he was a foster child. He had no relatives, no place to call home and was desperate to belong and fit in somewhere. Any child like Benson would jump at the chance to go to a classy private so called school where they could possibly find many new friends and have the chance at a good education. Maxwell Academy in my opinion is a testing facility for the androids. The androids needed to be tested in a real-world scenario without the chance of law enforcement stepping in, resulting in the creation of the academy. Maxwell Academy lets the creators of the androids work out the kinks and problems before using them for whatever master plan they have created.
ReplyDeleteI think that Benson makes a good candidate for Maxfield academy because he has nobody. And he wasn't really around other people that much. So when they tested out the androids he wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And since he had nobody that means he wouldn't have anyone to come looking for him. That was good for the school though because that meant the wouldn't get caught. Also since Benson doesn't have any family he wouldn't be in a hurry to go home because he doesn't have anyone to go back to.
ReplyDeleteA good candidate for Maxfield Academy is someone that doesn’t have connections to the world. So, Benson Fisher was a near perfect candidate. Most of the students were homeless or foster kids before coming to the school. Benson himself was a foster child. On page 3, Benson says, “I’d racked up thirty-three foster families all around the city since I’d entered the program as a five-year-old. The longest had been a family in Elliott where I’d stayed for four and a half months." The last family that Benson had stayed with were the Coles. Mr. Cole owned a gas station and would make Benson work for free. Though Benson didn’t have friends to begin with, by working for Mr. Cole, he did not have an opportunity to meet anyone new. On page 21 Becky asks if Benson had any real friends and Benson thought to himself, “Well, I didn’t have any [friends] at my last school- I’d never met anyone there because I was always at the gas station. And I definitely did not consider Mr. Cole a friend. There was my caseworker, but she couldn’t ever remember my name.” Apparently, nobody remembered Benson or any of the captive students. Another thing that makes or breaks a candidate is how bad things were back in the world. There are two reactions that people could have: the first can be easily shown by Becky, who saw the school as a safe haven because she had nothing to go back to. This fact made her a “willing captive.” Benson had a bad life before going to Maxfield Academy, but he didn’t want to spend the rest of forever locked in a school. Benson’s refusal to be a willing captive made him a near perfect candidate as it added a variable to the school’s purpose of experiment. My understanding of the school’s purpose is to test and make the androids more human-like. On page 324 the book states, “Our goal is to have them [the androids] develop strategies on their own, not to see how well they can learn existing strategies.” Unlike the other students who submitted to the school and did not give any problem to the androids, Benson was a variant, variety, or a variable to the experiment of the androids. The riot Benson caused allowed the androids to develop strategies to keep everyone at the school in order to complete the purpose of the school. Ms. Vaughn said coldly and cruelly, on page 359, “ We weren’t testing you [the humans]. We’re testing them [the androids].” Ms. Vaughn also said, “We have to test the programs somewhere in a controlled environment.” In conclusion, the school's purpose was to be a controlled environment to test the androids.
ReplyDeleteI think why Benson Fisher was a great student for Maxfield Academy was because he had a hard time putting trust into people. Like it said he wasn't treating his group the V's as friends. He's was there and there just side friends, in the beginning. So to my understanding, Maxfield Academy is run by some crazy lunatic lady who has waaaaaaaay to much free time on her hands. So she decided to use that to make kids without families lives even worse. Especially when she decided to put androids in. I mean "Come On Lady" how many lives does see have to ruin to make herself feel complete. "I Mean Seriously." Poor Benson having to deal with all of this.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Benson is a great candidate for Maxfield because he doesn't have a family and that would be notice when he would be gone from that school. It will be that he is gone notes and this is because they choose people that do not have family and they will notes that he is gone. He is intelligent to be a candidate so I think that he can be a candidate and for kids like him too they can be candidate.On page 362 it states, "We have to test the programs somewhere, in a controlled environment." In this case it is saying that they should test the adriaens and they are testing how is a robot or how is not like Becky, Benson thought that Becky was a robot, but he was wrong about that because in the book Variant it says that he almost cried because Becky was a real human and he could see her bone.
ReplyDeleteBenson makes for a great candidate at Maxfield because he has no ties to the outside world. No one would come looking for him if he were to vanish. I also felt that his action also made him a great candidate because it allowed the androids to be tested when faced with someone like him. It probably even gave the androids new skills. Which would help with the experiment making him an ideal candidate for Maxflied and its crazy experiments. Although I felt that the real purpose of the school was to teach the student new skills for some sort of event that was going to effect the world. But as the book states their purpose was to test the androids.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield is that he is a foster kid. He doesn't have a family, and no one will really miss him. He also will be so easily forgotten. After finishing the book my understanding of the purpose of the school is that it will give be a good home for kids like Benson who have no stable home. The kids have shelter, food, and a good education. Another purpose of the school is that the people who run Maxfield are trying to see how well androids and humans get along. They also want to see if the humans can notice the androids and also coexist with them. This is what I think the purpose of Maxfield is.
ReplyDeleteIn order to be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy you need to be someone who nobody will care about or look for if they have gone missing. The reason for this is because Maxfield Academy doesn't want people coming to look into their business at the school and for people to realize what really happens there. I think that the whole purpose of Maxfield Academy is to see how the androids interact with the humans and how they trust each other. They did various experiments such as locking everyone outside for the night and seeing what they would do and killing someone just to see how everyone else will react. As I understand it, Maxfield Academy is the perfect place to test such a thing like this because it is in the middle of nowhere and there are no adults around. I also think that when they would make them play paintball it was not to train them as Benson had thought but to see how they would be affected by shooting at each other.
ReplyDeleteThe kids like Benson are good for Maxfield Academy because all of the students have no one caring about them or even missing them. The Academy wants this kids because they don't want people looking for there kids and finding out how the kids are being treaded. The Academy has these kids with androids so they can see how they will react humans and also see if the kids can trust these androids. The Academy had all these test so they could see how the androids would react with the humans. For example when the Academy locked all of the students outside, so they could see how the androids would react. As I was reading the book I understood why they did the paintball, so the Academy could see how the androids would do harming humans. I also understood the eason why the Academy put the school in the woods where no one can find them.
ReplyDeleteTo be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is to have no one who will care or look for you when going missing. Benson is an orphan, and doesn't make any friends, and is easily forgotten. No one will come looking for him and find out what's really going on at Maxfield Academy. We later find out the school is a testing location for robots/androids. To test the androids they needed human test subjects. The humans would point out mistakes in the android's code. Benson pointed out some issues with Jane at one point. Then the head of the people were told, fixed.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that to be a good candidate for Maxfield the student needs to be alone, friendless, and forgotten. According to page 23 "Those had been questions on the scholarship application, though they referred it to a personality profile. How many close friends do you have? Who do you confine in? I must have answered it right none and no one." This means that the students say that they could go missing and no one will ever ask about what happened to the kid. The only people who can slightly care for the kids would be foster parents or orphanages. Benson was a prime candidate because he jumped from school to school, he is a orphan, he jumped from foster home to foster home, and he has no friends. When Benson disappeared, not one person would look for him.
Meagan Trinidad
ReplyDeleteI think in order to be a good candidate for Maxfield you shouldn't have family or friend ties. That makes Benson a great Candidate because he is a foster student and he didn't connect with anybody he met at his other schools. No one looked for him or even missed him and even after he escaped he has no one to go to. The purpose of the school was to test the androids on how they would respond to being around people but they needed people who they could just take from the world. They couldn't just get anybody to throw into the school because they would get busted and it would ruin their experiment. Benson is a good candidate because he wanted to get out, so that would test the androids seeing if they would do the "right thing" by not letting him escape. Benson is a good candidate, but over all he probably was the worse because he is the one who convinced almost everybody to escape.
Brenden Leary
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher was a good candidate for Maxfield Academy because he had no known friends or family before arriving at the academy. From the age of five, Benson was a part of thirty-three foster families. He was looking for a better future. Benson wanted to be somewhere different. He wanted to be somewhere he could be apart of a school team or have been in the same place long enough to have a girl friend. He applied to Maxfield on his own and filled out a scholarship application answering questions like, How many close friends do you have? Who do you confide in? Maxfield would seek out students that had no homes and no ties. Again, Benson was a perfect candidate.
Maxfield was a school that recruited young people to come to a secluded place where androids and humans could interact with each other on a daily bases. The purpose of the school was so that they could perform experiments. One example of an experiment was the paintball wars. They wanted to see if they could figure out strategies on their own while playing on the sports field. These different experiments with androids and humans could give information needed for how life might be in the future if the two ever had to co-exist.
Trent Nuckolls
ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher is a good candidate for Maxfield because of his curiosity for everything that goes on. He is also creative which helps him escape. The purpose of the school is not for the actual people but for the androids. The school that created the androids used the academy to test the behavior of the androids and how to improve them. That is why Jane had no recollection of pop culture because the programmers never programmed that into her. Benson figured that out when he showed the school where Jane was and after they did research on her computer they found that her update was pop culture.
Its seems that Maxfield Academy mainly consists of foster kids or kids who have no one to care and watch out for them. This makes kids like Benson great candidates because no one will be expecting calls, emails, or social media updates. Also, nobody will ask questions if one of the students just disappears in the night. I believe that the main purpose of Maxfield is to make adjustments to the androids so that they blended in with humans. This would explain the Pop Culture patch that was on the computer connected to Jane's ear. The school could also test the androids to see their reactions to different situations, like the paintball games. Another thing is that the school could be using the students as maps for the androids and when that map is complete, they send you to the Basement to be replaced(possibly) by an exact replica android. As more and more students come to the schools, the android population would grow, giving way to the possibility of world domination.
ReplyDeleteOn pages 313-315 the students are good candidates because they didn't really know anybody, have friends, anything in that nature. Ben Fisher made a good candidate because he was a foster child, and he didn't have a true family. The purpose of the school was to test the robots. They trained the robots (paintball, random classes). This school was to make the perfect android that can fit in with society, all for reasons of power/dominance.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of the school was to test the androids. The androids job was to learn, which could be programmed and be improved. Benson Fisher was a good candidate because he had no family, friends, or anyone to go to. He's a foster kid, it was perfect. If he was gone from school no one would notice or care. If they took any kid, from any family would notice and the school will be caught and held responsible. Benson Fisher ia a perfect candidate for this school.
ReplyDeleteMaxfield School is a place that takes foster kids in and tests them with androids. The person who owns the school learns from the kids and programms the androids. The school also wants to see if the kids can notice the androids.
Damien Billips
ReplyDeleteBenson was a great candidate for Maxfield Academy because ever since he was a little kid he moved from foster home to foster home. If anything was to happen to Benson no one would know or care because he had no friends or family. The purpose of the school was to test robots before they send them out to the real world. They wanted them to learn from the humans. They even fixed Jane so that she would understand the pop culture and movies that Benson would always talk to her about. The school was basically a training facility for androids.
I believe Benson was a great student at Maxfield Academy because he had nothing to do with the outside world. He had no family, therefore no one would search for him. On page 22, it states "A whole school full of people like me-- no friends, no family. No one would notice that we are gone." Most of the kids had been foster kids, or homeless, until they came to schools. When they tested the androids he wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
ReplyDeleteStudents like Benson would be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy. I think it’s because Benson was rebellious to the school. He suspected something wasn’t right. The school needed students like him to know how to improve their robots. The school was a place where they took different types of people and tested their robots out to see what could be changed or fixed. For example on pages 319 and 320 it talks about how Jane wasn’t caught up on pop culture. It then explains how a programmer typed about how Jane’s pop culture problem needed fixed. I feel that students helped the programmers realize that Jane needed to be fixed. This is a reason students like Benson help the school function well. I’m not sure what the point of the robots are but the school itself was to mix robots and real people and see how the robots reacted.
ReplyDeleteStudents like Benson would be a good candidate for Maxfield Academy. I think it’s because Benson was rebellious to the school. He suspected something wasn’t right. The school needed students like him to know how to improve their robots. The school was a place where they took different types of people and tested their robots out to see what could be changed or fixed. For example on pages 319 and 320 it talks about how Jane wasn’t caught up on pop culture. It then explains how a programmer typed about how Jane’s pop culture problem needed fixed. I feel that students helped the programmers realize that Jane needed to be fixed. This is a reason students like Benson help the school function well. I’m not sure what the point of the robots are but the school itself was to mix robots and real people and see how the robots reacted.
ReplyDeleteI believe Benson was a good candidate because he was the first person to really rally everyone together with escape plans. This is what destroyed the schools idea to have to have androids made that were impossible to tell from real people. He like everyone else was a foster kid with no strings attached so, nobody would look for him.
ReplyDeleteI believe Benson was a good candidate because he was the first person to really rally everyone together with escape plans. This is what destroyed the schools idea to have to have androids made that were impossible to tell from real people. He like everyone else was a foster kid with no strings attached so, nobody would look for him.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else at Maxfield Benson is the prefect candidate he had not friends, family, and no ties to the out side world. If he vanished no one would care or go looking for him. His actions and the way he felt must have gave the androids some insight on how to deal with people like him. (leader). The way he could make friends and foes and make them all come to gather like that. He also doesn't take crap from any one his age big or small. I think the schools purpose was to teach the students things that other normal schools don't teach, like how to protect your self, how to mange money, work, and to teach all of them that life sucks and you should get over that and take your life's in our own hands.
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ReplyDeleteBenson Fisher was the perfect candidate for Maxfield Academy because he had no ties or relations to anyone outside of the school. He was on his own with no friends, family, or people who would notice if he was suddenly missing. Benson is also an excellent candidate for Maxfield Academy because he wouldn't conform to the rules that were set. He wasn't scared to break the rules and try to escape. From the very beginning of his stay at Maxfield Academy, Benson knew that he wanted to leave. This makes him a perfect variable to be tossed into the experiment. It is obvious that the purpose of Maxfield Academy was to train androids to be like humans in every aspect. The one thing that was missing was the one thing that Benson could teach. Benson was completely independent and only relied on himself, so he was able to teach the droids this quality.
Kandon Weishaupt
ReplyDeleteI think to be a good student candidate for Maxwell Academy requires a youth is easily taken off the grid. This student must be able to easily disappear from society without being missed. The student can't really have any friend, family, or other people that care about them. Because Benson Fisher was a foster child with nobody that really cared about him, made him the perfect candidate. However, since Benson had no one, he was very independent and that was not a good trait for Maxwell Academy to control. Benson was able to escape and made a good friend who he trusted, Becky. I think the purpose of the school was to have control over youth, to teach them how to conform. I think it was somewhat like a prison. I think each gang had a purpose and duty to fulfill to ensure that things ran smoothly at the Academy.
Tanner Stritenberger
ReplyDeleteA good candidate for Maxfield is someone that has no connection to anyone. People like Benson have no one at home witch means no connection to anyone. In the book it says Benson has stayed with 33 different foster families. The longest he stayed with one was four and a half months. Someone like this was exactly what the school wanted. I think the purpose of the school is to train androids. They are training them to get used to people.
A good candidate for Maxfield Academy is someone with the personality of Benson Fisher's. Mostly distant and not very trusting is the way to figure out and get out of that crazy school. As I understand, the school was meant to track the personalities of students that didn't have a good place to call home . . . foster kids. As they tested them, they would see the behaviors of the students like: Trust, Companionship, and Teamwork (Mostly Trust.) So as they test these foster kids, they keep a close eye on Benson because he's able to keep his distance from most of the people (and androids) in the book. Benson is probably the best person for the test because he is different than the others. He didn't give up in the first couple of weeks to escape. He kept fighting and trying to figure out what was going on. So now, Maxfield is after Benson because of the traits he has for their android population.
ReplyDeleteA great candidate for Maxfield academy is someone like Benson Fisher, the only reason for that is because he doesn't have any sort of connection with the gangs therefore there is no favorites. After reading the book, I understood it as if they where alone trying to make something of themselves alone with other spectators. I also think that the androids were there to speed up the process by interacting with one another and with the humans to show progress and data from the kids.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is he has no family no friends and no connection to society no one will even know he's gone. Is also a good candidate because he doesn't favor other gangs, he doesn't choose sides.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the book I believe Maxfield Academy is a place where young adults can get a fresh start and become who they want to be, and not have any expectations of what they should become
What makes Benson Fisher a good candidate for Maxfield Academy is he has no family no friends and no connection to society no one will even know he's gone. Is also a good candidate because he doesn't favor other gangs, he doesn't choose sides.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the book I believe Maxfield Academy is a place where young adults can get a fresh start and become who they want to be, and not have any expectations of what they should become