a retrospective on teen dystopian books

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• JA

  @JamesTullos · 3 years ago

  The best part of this trend was the increasingly desperate and stupid ways the authors tried to justify teenagers being key to the success or failure of entire countries.

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• UP

  @upsetstudios1819 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m still, after all these years, mad that The Hunger Games were marketed as a &quot;silly love triangle for teenage girls&quot; when it was <b>sooo</b> much darker and meaningful

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• TO

  @Tomkatos · 3 years ago (edited)

  Sometimes a teenager just needs to read a book about a dystopia in which teenagers are the most oppressed group in society lmao. Im sure that it helps process some feelings.

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• AN

  @annejia5382 · 3 years ago

  Another great factor is that the first twilight movie and the first hunger games book were released at a time when the younger audience of Harry Potter were just entering teenhood and the Harry Potter film series were coming to an end. those younger HP &nbsp;audience entering teenhood in 2008 became the force and the perfect age for the Young Adult market that peaked/rose in 2011.

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• GI

  @giulia8509 · 3 years ago

  “There is something that all these books lack, that The Hunger Games has, that Twilight has” <br>I confidently said a love triangle. I was wrong

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• BO

  @bokorjudit8 · 3 years ago

  the &quot;rich girl meets lower class boy who shows her the real world&quot; is actually the full-on opposite of &quot;manic pixie dream girl&quot; characters haha

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• JE

  @jesstiara4351 · 3 years ago

  I think the reason why these “older” YA books are randomly getting hyped again is because the kids who were too young to read them discovered them and found them relevant

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• CA

  @CarolinaGothic35 · 3 years ago

  The uglies series literally shaped my life. It had me researching GMOs, monoculture, propaganda, fascism, attention economies, magnetic lift systems, green alternative energy, all when I was middle schooler in like 2007-2009. I re-read it over and over. Still enjoy the audiobooks too this day.

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• SO

  @sophiep7184 · 3 years ago

  Whilst you spoke about tropes and the girl having their eyes opened by the boy who can show them what the world is really like, I looked at the maze runner cover and realised that Thomas is the clueless young girl being shown the real world by his knight in shining armour Teresa Agnes.

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• ME

  @meghand8682 · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2AFc8QONio&amp;t=980">16:20</a> Suzanne Collins was not a debut author when she published The Hunger Games! I was a huge fan of her series Gregor the Overlander as a kid — the first book of which came out in 2003.

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• JA

  @jasmin3589 · 3 years ago

  ~2008 was when the global financial crisis hit, so maybe that context of teens being confronted with the fear of social decline and poverty may have had an influence in the reception of dystopian novels 🤔🤗

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• OL

  @olliveen · 3 years ago (edited)

  the comparison of the divergent factions to tiktok aesthetic niches is so real actually you&apos;re so right. divergent really excapsulates the teenage &quot;all or nothing&quot; need to fit in. life truly does imitate art *chefs kiss*. excellent video!

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