Essay On Incarceron

The book Incarceron is an interesting book with a mixed message of freedom naming the good and the bad. Catherine Fisher's book talks of a future where society is sent back in their ideal styles of life to live like people did a long time ago, having woman where dresses and no technology. Many years before the story takes place a prison was built where no one could enter or escape. It really showcases the feeling of lack of freedom through its choice of diction to the visuals described. Incarceron has a message of freedom on the first page where it says “Who can chart the vastness of Incarceron? Its halls and viaducts, its chasms? Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison”(1). The Prison described in the book is vast with millions of people in it so much that it would be impossible to ever release them. The main character Finn believes he is from outside of the prison, which should be impossible due to the fact that incarceron (the name of the prison itself) is so inescapable and impossible to enter for reasons that become seen later. Throughout the novel, Finn speaks to a girl named Claudia, who is in the outside, we get to see Claudia perspective in the prison due to the fact her “father” is the warden and in charge of the prison and keeping it safe. Claudia and everyone not in the …show more content…
In an article, it lists the 10 ways we have lost our freedom, saying “If you have a job, the Freedom Train stops at the workplace door.” it is hard to believe how much freedom we have lost in the short time since our founding Fathers founded