On Dystopian Societies A Report on our future world By Jeffrey Clemmons The girl scrambled for food through the thick wall of trash‚ the smell of mildew crossing her nose. She wore a tattered leather jacket and a pair of old jeans with shoes that people once called Chuck Taylors. She cursed when she didn’t find anything and turned back to her brother who was in the shopping cart looking hopefully at her. She sighed‚ “Nothing.” Her little brother sighs as well and she begins to push him in
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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House on Inez Street Edward Sanders Dedictaed to the person I used to be. 1.) Tug Of War • 4 2.) Starry Eyed • 6 3.) Home • 8 4.) Quiet • 10 5.) Obsessions • 12 6.) Your Biggest Mistake • 14 7.) Lights • 16 8.) The Writer • 18 9.) Forgot to Laugh • 20 10.) State of Dreaming • 22 11.) Atlantis • 24 12.) Heavy Rope •26 Tug Of War Before we moved to the house on Inez st. we lived in a house in Garnet st. I have never been good at rememebring
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Self-Select Essay For my self-select book‚ I chose Catching Fire‚ by Suzanne Collins. It is about an oppressive government that forces citizens to fight to the death in an arena every year. I selected this book for a number of reasons. First‚ I read the prequel to this book‚ The Hunger Games‚ a couple of years ago and loved it. Also‚ while researching this book‚ I found that it would probably match the theme of honor/loyalty that we have been talking about this year. Overall I am very
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Harper Lee believes that younger kids‚ especially those not yet through primary school‚ have very different instinct compared to adults. They do not have the maturity to come up with multiple ways of handling situations‚ and often will not take the time to think about their actions before they go through with them. Children outgrow this as they mature‚ but it is something that takes many years‚ and depends thoroughly on the child. While this should be quite obvious‚ many times adults‚ younger and
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castle setting affected the main characters. Symbolism is one thing that can be easy or hard to find‚ depending on the book. But symbolism isn’t limited to books‚ it is prominent in songs‚ like the song ‘Wings’ by Macklemore‚ and movies‚ like the mockingjay pin in the Hunger Games. But once you figure the symbol out‚ it opens a whole new world and perspective on all of them‚ which is why I am going to tell you about the one in this book‚ ‘Across the Star Swept Sea’ by Diana Peterfreund. The hidden
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It is a human nature to wonder about unknown and try to explain unexplainable. Throughout the times‚ many cultures created myths that explained creation of the world and humans and enlightened people about natural phenomena. As Morford mentioned‚ “the word myth comes from the Greek word mythos‚ which means "word”‚ "speech”‚ "tale”‚ or "story”‚ and that is essentially what a myth is: a story” (Classical Mythology‚ 3) Heroes play a big part of the myth in any culture. They are all different‚ yet each
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“Exploitation and Intimidation are Often the Result of Unbridled Power” Uncontrolled power often leads to corruption and this is made evident in the texts; Animal Farm and The Hunger Games. Animal Farm and The Hunger Games both have similar perspectives about ‘power’. Power is what gives people control over others; so when power is exploited‚ people are intimidated by the dictator’s actions. George Orwell’s Animal Farm expresses and discusses this statement throughout the story with many sub-plots
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achievements. Women do an equal amount of work as men but still get paid less. It is easy to notice that the top 5 movies always have a male casted as the lead. In the year 2014‚ the only movie where the lead was a woman was in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 but even then it was recently discovered that the leading actress‚ Jennifer Lawrence ‚ got paid significantly less for the same amount of work as her male co-stars. In this society‚ men are worshipped and this society is
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Living through a dystopian world In a dystopian story‚ society itself is typically the antagonist; it is society that is actively working against the protagonist’s aims and desires. This oppression frequently is enacted by a totalitarian or authoritarian government‚ resulting in the loss of civil liberties and untenable living conditions‚ caused by any number of circumstances‚ such as world overpopulation‚ laws controlling a person’s sexual or reproductive freedom‚ and living under constant surveillance
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