Dingo
July 15, 2008 at 7:37 am
And did you tell him that you are raising great kids? Kids with compassion and empathy? Because that, my dear, is key to stamping out prejudice and you are doing a wonderful job.
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Clix
June 29, 2008 at 7:10 am
I soooo love Brave New World ! Um. Actually, one of my favoritest books EVAR (Epic ) is semi-dystopic and gives some background about how and why the group in power became powerful and was able to maintain it. Bit of a stretch, though.
Another adult dystopia is Anthem . There’s also some awesome YA lit in the… genre? subgenre? I dunno.
Uglies (and then Pretties, Specials, and Extras if you like the writer’s style)
The Giver (Gathering Blue and Messenger)
The City of Ember (The People of Sparks)
Stolen Voices
and possibly the series that begins with Among the Hidden.
I really like comparing BNW with 1984, because they’re both dystopian novels and have some strong similarities. As a result, the differences are in theme and vision, and you kinda have to hunt for ‘em. Yum! WRT moving towards totalitarianism, the former implies that the shift was more subtle, but in neither case was it completely abrupt, which implies that there was a point in the history of both books during which citizens lost rights because they allowed it to happen.
Ok, hushing now.
Chili, would you be willing to discuss Holocaust planning?
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mrschili
June 3, 2008 at 10:57 am
No, Dingo, NEVER! Actually, I’m getting pretty good at calling students out on that shit. They’re really starting to hate me because I’m trying to get them to, you know, think for THEMSELVES….
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