Dystopian literature describes a dystopia: an imaginary place where the conditions of life are extremely bad.
Common characteristic of dystopian literature include:
- the setting is a futuristic, imagined society
- freedom has been taken away
- the past is kept a secret from the general public
- an important ceremony takes place
- the protagonist is viewed as a rebel
- the story contains violence
-the public is under constant survaillance
- people's emotions are controlled
- people suffer from oppresion
- individualism is not valued - the good of the whole society is put above the good of individuals
Some books that are of dystopian literature are:
The Giver
Divergent Trilogy
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The Roar (also a BOB book)
Dystopian literature is very popular today.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
BOB list for NC chatham county 2014-2015
BOB LIST
Home of the brave by Katherine Applegate
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda
The Roar by Emma Clayton
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
90 miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee Tucker Frazier
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
Road to Tater Hill by Edith Morris Hemingway
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Titanic: Voices From The Disaster by Deborah Hopkins
Hero by Mike Lupica
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
The Alchemyst:The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Outcast united: The story of a refugee soccer team that changed a town
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L Swanson
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
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