i,Robot (pg. 68 to pg to 135)

Summary:

The robots have breaken rule number two, as Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan now find themselves in the officer's room being guarded by two robots. Cutie 'pensions' and humiliates Greg and Donovan by claiming that Human's had no longer purpose on Earth. He tells them that they are held dear to the boss for being such servile humans and that the little time that they do have left to live, because they have no purpose, they will be cater for well. They argue back and forth for awhile about the whether or not Earth a purpose to it exist. Powell questions Cutie about the objects in the solar system such as the stars in space. Apparantly the robots' Boss is aiming beams at the Earth as well as other solar objects. Meanwhile, while on their way to Earth, they are also pondering about Dave, the robot miner. Something was going wrong with Dave, he had not produced any ore. They couldn't explain why, and they had no way of telling whether the robot was lying or not, for robots couldn't knowingly lie.
Quote:

"He rocked back and forth in an agony of impotence. Who the heck wants to argue with a robot? It's ... it's—" (Asimov 71).

Reaction:

I chose this quote because Greg and Donovan are trying excessively hard to bypass these robots, and this quote seems to contribute to the hope that they should have. When in fact, all of their contemplations are far-fetched. For instance, Donovan suggests at one point that they should get close to Cutie in order to short-circuit him. The only problem is that this would require the disposition of acid, which Greg points out that Cutie is not crazy enough to let them get close to him with. I also like this quote because, although the word 'mortyfing' is suggested by Donovan after cutting Greg off, Asimov sort of allows the author to choose the word that they think fits into the situation. For instance, I was thinking that the word 'absurd' would fit into the sentence.