Cinder: A Literary Analysis

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In the book Cinder, the social classes do not rely on money, fame, or your job. The societal structure simply has androids as the lowest class, cyborgs in the middle, and humans at the top. Similar to the segregation of races that occurred not too long ago, many businesses refuse to serve cyborgs and androids because they are "not human beings", While this external conflict seems unfair, in the To Kill A Mockingbird anticipation guide and debate our class discussed equality and human rights. Most of us came to a consensus that while equality among everyone is a right we deserve, obtaining it almost seems like a Utopian fantasy. I do not think that the conflict that is the social hierarchy will be solved in this book. Because of this, it

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