Why do teens like dystopian literature or films? Because it comes from the teens perspective on how it should be. Dystopian story or movies such as Anthem and The Maze Runner. These two stories are common but are also different in many ways. In Anthem by Ayn Rand there is a dystopian theme as well as in the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball..
Anthem by Ayn Rand Equality says in chapter 11, (I guard my treasures my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.Ayn page.97) Anthem shows how a perfect world is like an many other stories in the dystopian genre. Teens like the suspense because it's usually a teen breaking the laws in the perfect world. Another reason is also because teens wanted …show more content…
Thomas in the movie The Maze Runner says (Guys I'm one of them. The people who put us here, I worked with them. I-I watched you guys for years. The entire time you've been here, I… I was on the other side of it.Ball) These kids are held in dome controlled by someone higher Maze Runner is a story about how teens are captured and placed somewhere where they have to figure how to get out. But the only way for them to get out would be through the maze, it's dangerous at night so there's no way to last a night until Thomas arrived. The conflict is how teens think they are free, but in reality they're not.
How are Maze Runner and Anthem similar? Anthem and Maze Runner are different in many ways because of what happens and what the actors or character do in the book or film. They both are controlled by something higher like in Anthem it's the counsel and in The Maze Runner it's a group of scientists. Both of them live by similar rules where they can only do certain things. The Maze Runner and Anthem both have a person who changes everything and breaks rules. Anthem has certain jobs as does Maze Runner, but they have many important jobs one would have to be running in the