All these things I’ve done is an extraordinary narrative about living in New York during the time of 2083 where coffee and chocolate are illegal, water and paper are scarce, and there is a large ration of crime and poverty. Anyashka Balanchine, only 16 years old, happens to be the daughter of a legendary crime holder, who is also dead. Not only does she have to live with the history of family crime, but she also juggles school and taking care of her siblings and deteriorating grandmother. This novel also consists of romance, including her rotten ex-boyfriend and the new assistant D.A’s son, and when her ex was poisoned by chocolate distributed by Anya’s family company, all hell breaks loose. American culture twines its way into the novel;
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In America during 2082, according to the novel, all of these things are opposite. “I took a sip of my beer and in my head, I toasted Daddy. Nana (born in 1995) said that kids used to get in trouble for drinking when she was young, and teen drinking had been illegal. Now you could get alcohol at any age as long as the person supplying it had the right permits--it was no harder to come by than ice cream and significantly less hard than getting, say, a ream of paper” (70). This proves just how much the culture has changed in America. The only reason Anya receives so much chocolate and has the accessibility to it is because her family runs a chocolate business and has been before chocolate was illegal to begin with. America hadn’t changed culturally but also historically as well; Many of the special attractions and museums have emptied, along with swimming pools considering water was so scarce. In one section of the book, Anya had to go to a, lack of better word, jail, although the lady who ran the institution simply noted it as a “place for children in trouble”. “Atop the pedestal was an enormous greenish pair of women’s feet in sandals and the bottom of her skirt, both math of what i’d guess was aging copper. I think my father had once told me some story about what had happened to the rest of the statue (maybe it had been scrapped for parts?) but at that moment, I couldn’t remember it, and the torsoless woman seemed ominous to me. There was something inscribed on the base of the pedestal but the only words I could make out were tired and free” (117). The actual part of the statue today has the quote “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” The Statue of Liberty is a big symbol in America,
In America during 2082, according to the novel, all of these things are opposite. “I took a sip of my beer and in my head, I toasted Daddy. Nana (born in 1995) said that kids used to get in trouble for drinking when she was young, and teen drinking had been illegal. Now you could get alcohol at any age as long as the person supplying it had the right permits--it was no harder to come by than ice cream and significantly less hard than getting, say, a ream of paper” (70). This proves just how much the culture has changed in America. The only reason Anya receives so much chocolate and has the accessibility to it is because her family runs a chocolate business and has been before chocolate was illegal to begin with. America hadn’t changed culturally but also historically as well; Many of the special attractions and museums have emptied, along with swimming pools considering water was so scarce. In one section of the book, Anya had to go to a, lack of better word, jail, although the lady who ran the institution simply noted it as a “place for children in trouble”. “Atop the pedestal was an enormous greenish pair of women’s feet in sandals and the bottom of her skirt, both math of what i’d guess was aging copper. I think my father had once told me some story about what had happened to the rest of the statue (maybe it had been scrapped for parts?) but at that moment, I couldn’t remember it, and the torsoless woman seemed ominous to me. There was something inscribed on the base of the pedestal but the only words I could make out were tired and free” (117). The actual part of the statue today has the quote “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” The Statue of Liberty is a big symbol in America,