The book I'm reading for the dystopian project, is The Road. The story revolves around a duo, a father and a son. We don't know their names or ages. I believe the son is about seven to eight years old. This book takes place in the United States of America, it doesn't say exactly where because the states don't exist anymore. I can only make a guess it's near the east coast. What makes this story dystopian is that there is an apocalypse happening and the father and son are doing everything to survive. The plot (so far) is the duo are trying to reach the south before winter. They hit multiple dilemmas and heartache. The duo keep discussing these people in high power but they don't use names, they call them "They". I'm not sure if "they" caused the apocalypse or they rised to power during the apocalypse but it seems that the father is scared of 'they'. I don't want to give away major spoilers to those reading or planning to read the book but it gets depressing, really depressing. I have read some dystopian books before but those that were written more recently, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins or Divergent by Veronica Roth. Similarities I see is that I wouldn't like to live in any of their worlds, most are terrifying. (Divergant isn't scary but a bit insane) But I feel the dystopian books that were written in 1900's and early 2000's have no mercy compared to the books now. Take example, in The Hunger Games, Katniss is stuck in a love triangle oh nooooo who will she choose?? But in The Road or 1984, the books are just pure madness and chaos, it's hard to find that silver lining within these books. The similarities of this world and our book that I can only really think of it's that it takes place on earth. I hope that we won't enter an an apocalyptic war soon. I am commenting on Jeremy Ong's and Colin Vail's and Rickie Sparks Book Blogs
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Jeremy
6/7/2018 11:36:16 am
I agree with the fact that it takes place near the east coast. However I also do believe it could take place near the coast of Oregon as well. To my knowledge there happens to be lots of trees and clouds in Oregon so it could take place there. But the book so far has not revealed its specific location.
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Colin Vail
6/8/2018 11:23:17 am
I agree the book does start to get depressing, although I feel like instead of "They" being a powerful being or group of people ruling over the waste land. It could quite possibly be something rather neutral, and they kill certain people and recruit certain people. You never know. My question for you is what did you feel about this book was it interesting or too depressing?
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Maxin Marinez
6/8/2018 02:18:01 pm
I definitely agree with you when you said that The Boy and The Man are afraid of them. But they aren't afraid of them because they caused the apocalypse, but rather they are afraid of "Them" because they are the unknown, and some of the people they have come across have been apart of cannibal groups.
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rickie
6/11/2018 01:48:42 pm
I also think that the book is depressing and you cant really find a silver lining but for the hunger games i think it was more about the fighting and stuff then the love triangle. Also in the road I think that the they group rose to power after the apocalypses not caused it.
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