Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing that portrays the world in a worst case scenario using three elements. These three elements are dystopian society, dystopian controls and the dystopian protagonist. Paolo Bacigalupi uses these three elements to create a very realistic dystopian novel that is not to far away from becoming a reality. With all of this said, It is obvious that Ship Breaker is a completely dystopian novel. Not only is it a dystopian novel but it also gives us a view into what our world might look like in the near future. In Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker the world has developed a fine line between the rich and the poor in which the rich people live the life that everyone would love to live while the poor live in
