Freytag's Triangle, Summary

The book that I just finished reading, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was really entertaing and interesting because it explored things that I am curious about. It really went into how technological advancement could destroy us in the long-run, and how much we will focus on space exploration in the future. One character in the story, Hal, who is an artificially intelligent human-like computer, is a symbol of technological advancement. With Hal, humans have created a powerful technology that they cannot fully control. When Hal begins to deviate from the ways it has been instructed then it begins to destroy human. Thats what the author believes about technological advancement, that we are creating things that we cannot control and it will destroy humanity.
Like in Freytag's Triangle the beginning of the book explains how humans are evolving and how they begin to use tools. This is how technology begins and this is how the complication is in a way introduced. The author hints that these technological advances will be used against them in the beginning and the action begins to rise thereafter. When we begin to see major conflict between the human characters and technology is moving towards the end of the story. David Bowman and his fellow astronauts, including Hal, are on a mission and Hal begins to malfunction. He then kills an astronauts to save his "life". That's the climax enters the story and Bowman turns him off and takes control of the ship again. Then he just decides to discipline himself and finish the mission. According to Fretag's Triangle this is the falling action. He then transforms himself to immortal and saves the world from nuclear holocaust.