Don's Utopia In Candor, By Pam Bachorz

Utopia; a perfect world, where nothing is out place and everything is quintessential. There's no crime, no murder, no rebellious kids, nothing to complain about. Its the definition of a nice boring place. It’s the perfect location that takes place in the book Candor, by Pam Bachorz. The book focuses on this idea of life that could happen in the near future, where nothing can go wrong and a child is the definition of perfect, always studying, never eating anything with artificial anywhere in the label, never forgetting to wash behind their ears. The perfect obedience that any parent could ever ask for. The only problem is if they find out there being controlled, that changes the game. The children would try to fight with everything they got
Though he would probably tell you not to let it’s beauty trap you, it’s not at all what it seems. How he sees this place is quite funny though sense his father is the one running it. The town controls people through mind control you could say but Oscars dad came up with a method to hide hidden messages in music that is always softly playing throughout the town, no matter where you go. The message control every aspect of your life what you eat for dinner, where you go, and how much you study. Oscar describe how the adults that move here can’t wait for the messages to take them away but how the children/teens never see it coming. They don’t even know when there not themselves anymore. Unless Oscar gets to you first, you see he makes a living off of these teens. He tells them what's happening and says he can get them out of the town but for a price. His life is as perfect as it can get hiding behind an image of yourself so his Dad doesn’t know he knows. Throughout the book it describes how careful Oscar is at hiding this secret from his father. Oscar can fight the music by
They use music to enforce the messages behind the music to influence your brain into doing or believing what the messages says. This makes the book Science Fiction because it uses futuristic technology that isn’t possible yet but could be in the future. Plus the book focuses on the “What if?”. What if people could be controlled to be “perfect”? That's what the book mainly focuses on. You can see a glimpse of this when Pam writes, "Most kids go to the movies. I guess that's like other places. But here, we share a cardboard boat of carrot sticks. Popcorn could kill you: greasy, salty, and let's not think about the choking risk.” (chapter 13) This shows how this place isn’t like others, how everything is planned through to the littlest detail to make teens “perfect” or anyone for that matter. This technology of mind control influences the book largely, it shows how sometimes, Oscar doesn’t even realize what he is doing until it’s over or how how he demonstrates on how he has to build a wall in his brain but some messages he still can’t keep from breaking through his wall. It shows how much he struggles to stay the same and not change who he is just to make adults