Among The Hidden Analysis

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Among the Hidden is the first series book out of seven books published by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Among the hidden is a fictional novel that was published in 1998, the book introduced Luke Garner as an illegal third child in a society that forbids third child per family. Luke role in the first series is to revolt against the government over the two children per family policy in the country. Luke is the perfect character to be chosen to represent a third child because Luke mother Edna Garner doubted the possibility of third child law to thrive. Luke was the protagonist in this novel, he was the third child or a shadow child as the government refers to them. Luke is a child that hopes one day he will be able to go outside without consequences.
The principal conflict in my novel started to surface as far as early in page one of the book. In chapter one, Luke notice trees getting cut down and heard his mom ordering him in a loud voice to get away as far as possible from the window. Most of Luke's life, he has always obeyed to his mom without hesitation, but during this incident, Luke could not help but to take an extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and coming from far away pine smoke (Haddix 1). This brought fear upon Luke
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This issue raised a lot of panic among the people and finally the notion of limiting how many children a family can have to two was widely accepted as the right answer and most effective upon the ongoing economic crisis. This makes it comprehensible that the principal conflict of my book in literary terms is external. In my book, “Among the Hidden,” the principal conflict in literary terms are person vs society and person vs technology. To elucidate doubts, person vs technology was one of the two principal conflicts in my book because the website and another application were the tools used earlier to charge the

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