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The Twenty Days Of Turin Foreshadowing

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Social media is a highly debated topic in today’s media, and opinions on it are all over the internet. In the novel, The Twenty Days of Turin, social media is hinted at as a negative piece of communication and technology. The Library is a place that foreshadow the communication change, the way people will be treated, and the human race in a fight with itself due to media. The novel's foreshadowing has become fairly evident in our time period. This is impressive as the novel 1975. The Library in The Twenty Days of Turin foreshadows and predicts the rise of (social) media, and the negative stigma surrounding it. The novel foreshadows and gives evidence on how social media has made social interactions turn negative online. The novel implies …show more content…

Online, people are focussed on likes, comments, and popularity status. Some people and companies will manipulate the user, giving them more views, likes, and favor in the algorithm. “Every single feature on every social media platform is designed to manipulate you into spending more time on the app or site. As the saying goes, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product” (Nambiar sec. 3). Nambiar goes on to explain the sole purpose of social media: to exploit and to deceit. Companies and influencers use their viewers as pawns to get more money at the expense of their viewer’s health (Nambiar sec. 6), that is simply what social media is. The novel also expands on this idea of social media turning people toxic toward one another. “I never believed anyone who put the insomnia epidemic down to the heat or the drought, or those toxic, vinegary fumes that were supposedly drifting through the air. If anything, we are the ones going rancid…” (De Maria, 52). In the book, the insomnia epidemic is a metaphor for the future of social media taking over people’s time and turning people against each other. This epidemic is highlighted by the Library, as the stories written by these “sick” individuals with the insomnia explain that their life is miserable. De Maria wanted to foreshadow the negative effects of social media through the use of metaphorical events, which has

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