Figuratively, imagine a banana positioned into a bowl of apples; the banana will most commonly appear out of place. Now consider a slightly bruised apple is arranged into a bowl of flawless apples; with the fault hidden the damaged apple will plausibly sit unnoticed. The banana being markedly dissimilar from an apple makes it simple for even the most amateur eye to characterize it as different while an apple only having a single defect has the potential to deceive the eye into thinking that it is just like the surrounding apples. In the clever novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Phillip K. Dick depicts a futuristic version of Earth where android robots are manufactured to possess all but one dominant classifications of a human being. Much like the bruised apple is able be pivoted to hide its imperfection, the androids utilize their human-like qualities, both physical and intellectual, to camouflage themselves amongst the human race. Although the deception of ignorant bystanders comes effortlessly to the machines, when their inability to express empathic emotion is revealed an android can no longer pass off as human. Dick illustrates how androids are perceived by examining the contradicting lives of Rick Deckard, an expert in detecting androids, and J.R. Isidore, a special who is oblivious to the existence of androids.
Rick Deckard represents a confident man who has unintentionally developed an empathetic connection to the android personas, which inadequately effects his job as an android bounty hunter. After Deckard's partner is shot he anxiously accepts the task of capturing and retiring a group of escaped Nexus-6s. Rick is eager about this job due to him knowing that if he retires the correct amount of androids, he will be able to fulfill his dream of once again owning an authentic farm animal. Throughout Rick's mission of terminating the androids he constantly hovers over the idea that the escaped androids don't deserve to be put down....