Common Characteristics of Dystopian Stories (from Librarything.com)

Common Characteristics of Dystopian Stories are:



(from Librarything.com)



1. Dystopians are cautionary tales that explore how moral dilemmas today might play out in the future.



2. Dystopians offer social criticism. You can often tease out the author's political sympathies in the course of the novel.



3. Dystopians explore collective human stupidity. Couldn't you say that underpinning most dystopian novels is some notion of Original Sin, or at least, Original Stupidity of the Collective Mind?



4. Dystopians are predicated on the notion that the "haves" maintain power by "somatizing" (to borrow from Huxley) the "have nots" in some way, either with lies, sloganism, drugs, sex, or consumer goods.



5. Most dystopians go from dark to darker in tone, though a few like Fahrenheit 451 ends with a flicker of hope.



Find other examples of dystopia books on the Carnegie Library website.

War and Violence

A quote from poet Wilfred Owen...

"Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War.

The Poetry is in the pity.

Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They must be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful."



Teens

Mahatma Ghandi once said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."

He also said, "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."

His non-violent approach to change is celebrated each year on his birthday, Oct 2.


Here are some teens making a difference in the world today...

Katniss Everdeen, photo from FanPop.com

Katniss Everdeen, photo from FanPop.com
Click to read more about Katniss

Gale Hawthorne, photo from thehungergames.wikia.com

Gale Hawthorne, photo from thehungergames.wikia.com
Click to read more about Gale...

Peeta Mellark, photo from thehungergames.wikia.com

Peeta Mellark, photo from thehungergames.wikia.com
Click to read more about Peeta

Monday, September 12, 2011

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