Kuno likes riding aboard the air-ships and gets inspiration from them, while Vashti views them as horrible and boring. The differences between Vashti and Kuno’s characters are also revealed in their different attitudes toward the air-ships and the stars. Moreover, the fact that Vashti and Kuno live a two days’ trip apart means that although they both live in the Machine, they probably live on opposite sides of the world-which speaks to how vast the Machine is. This exchange reveals more details about the world of the story: the description of the “horrible brown earth” suggests that some kind of environmental disaster has stripped Earth of all or most vegetation, and the details about air-ships suggests that this futuristic society has a sophisticated transportation system.
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