Chapters 16 through 22

ok, so a very quick recap of the last part of the book. i'd like to have done them one by one, but i read them all together, so i cant really ask a lot of questions, as most of them were answered later in the book. still, there are some lingering things i would like to ponder...

so...rick meets with rachel at the hotel. she tells him about the androids. they have human-android sex, and then she wants rick to kill her. he can't. pris mutilates a spider, which makes Iz cry. buster friendly says mercer is a fake, which makes Iz cry more. rick and Iz meet. Rick and Iz seperate soon after. rick talks to mercer, and he tells him where pris is. he kills pris. rick pretends to be Iz, and roy falls for it. he kills irm. he kills roy. he talks to Iz again. Iz wants to move to the city. Rick offers for him to move into his building. Iz declines, out of fear. rachel kills the goat, and iran and rick are sad. rick leaves and goes to the california-seattle border, thinks he's mercer, and finds a toad. he brings the toad home, but it's fake. rick says he's mercer, and then takes a nap. iran buys fake stuff for the amphibion thing, and drinks some coffe. THE END.

so, first of all, i'd like to think about some unused things that were brought up earlier, but never came true. forst of all, the penfield hack that roy made that causes humans to be stressed out. why was that brought up, but not used? the same goes for the clam shaped android freezing for 6 seconds thing that rachael gave rick. either its just there to prove a point or something, or its just poor writing, which i dont want to accuse the dick-man of, but it might be it.

second, the anti-climactic ending. i thought it would end with him coming home, and going to sleep, ending symetrically, back where it started. then, i thought it would end like being john malkovich. with rick having to go up and down a hill forever and ever just like mercer, because he became mercer. then, he finds a toad, so i thought it would end with him using the toad to somehow bring mercerism back, or sell it to pay for a real sheep, or something. then, it ends with iran making coffe as rick takes a nap, and i was like "...huh?" i have no idea why dick chose to end it this way.

then to the title. do androids dream of electric sheep? my answer? yes and no. androids, in many ways are just like people. there are some who are empathetic, and some that are apathetic. so, some humans don't even dream of real sheep. basically, the point, as far as i can understand is that androids have their own sub-class, but can also join the same class as humans, just as humans can join the sub-class of androids. so, what im trying to get at is, do androids dream of real sheep?

last, but certainly not least, when, why, and how did rick fuse with mercer? and did he even really fuse with him? im not really sure. if anyone does know, or has an idea about it, please, tell me, but im completely clueless.