ranking teen dystopians on how ridiculous their futuristic societies are

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  @TheBookLeo · 2 years ago · pinned

  Want more? A few months ago I made a comprehensive retrospective on the YA dystopian book era! Watch here:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2AFc8QONio">https://youtu.be/B2AFc8QONio</a>

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  @valta2760 · 2 years ago (edited)

  When i was 13 i wrote a story literally titled &quot;utopia&quot; (because it was a dystopia and i thought i was sooo smart) where people weren&apos;t allowed to talk to eachother because the people would start to think and learn and reach the conclusion that the government was bad???? Anyways my protagonist was only allowed to talk to her virtual assistant but then one day she says fuck it and doesn&apos;t go to work and finds a guy near a lake and (oh my god!) they talk to eachother and the government kills them instantly. The end.

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  @chloedelgorge · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think the real magic of The Giver is <b>how</b> it reveals the world’s lack of color. The protagonist of the book has a difficult time explaining <b>why</b> he’s seeing things differently, why an apple suddenly “changes” in ways he can’t describe, before eventually being told: “this is <b>red.</b> this is a <b>color.”</b> It’s something we as readers don’t even consider at first; books being an inherently non-visual medium means our imagination fills in the gaps, and the images we create in our minds are close approximations of our perception of the world and how we sense it, which naturally includes color. Lowry specifically preys on this intuition by revealing that a visual element intrinsically linked to the world around us has been missing the whole time. It’s an honestly brilliant twist, something that can only be properly conveyed through a text-only medium.

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  @SoGluuBestie · 2 years ago

  In YA dystopias exclusively set in the US, I like to believe that the rest of the world is just completely fine and is observing us like “bro… chill the fuck out”

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  @psychedbypat · 2 years ago

  being a scientist has ruined so many dystopian stories for me like where is your pretest? did you not have this preregistered and peer-reviewed? HOW DID THIS PASS THE ETHICS COMMISSION???

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  @BadgerOfTheSea · 2 years ago

  She doesn&apos;t like reading books, she likes reading one specific book simply titled &quot;BOOK&quot; while everyone else puts on make up like the slaves they are!

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  @Andronikos144 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSLL3hcTSc&amp;t=35"><b>0:35</b></a><b></b> &apos;&apos;In a future world, and with the world we mean the United States, everyone is FORCED to wear MAKEUP! But our main character doesn&apos;t like MAKEUP, she likes reading books! And she starts a rebellion by building an army of young men who are all so enamoured by her cause she&apos;s <i>not like other girls&apos;&apos;</i> One of the best slanderous parody descriptions of ANYTHING I have ever heard, it&apos;s so funny. Barely being able to hold laughter back really shows the sheer hilarious absurdity of it.

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  @Bellassidequests · 2 years ago

  I know that the black parade story was ridiculous, but the line “there were four mattresses, three girls, and one corpse,” is metal as hell. English student approved.

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  @camila-qj9ch · 2 years ago

  I love that writing your own dystopian book after reading The Hunger Games was an integral part of girlhood for so many teenage girls

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  @stellarstarrs3219 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m kind of upset that cinder didn&apos;t get put in &quot;perks of being a cyborg&quot;, purely for the fact that she is quite literally a cyborg

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  @susannewhitney3735 · 2 years ago

  &apos;four mattresses, three girls, and one corpse&apos; as an opening line is actually great.

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  @texasred8424 · 2 years ago (edited)

  i find it kind of funny how in divergent actually the reason why people have a singular personality trait is because they were the results of a failed genetic experiment and the divergents are normal people but in execution the twist manages to make the story make less sense

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