The Importance Of Learning About The Future
Learning about power, environment, as well as education, helps teenagers develop an opinion about ideas that are presented to this technological society with many issues. In fact, people have the opportunity to experience this in their everyday lives when listening to the radio, watching the news, or even when sharing ideas with someone. Janet McNaughton’s dystopian novel The Secret Under My Skin is an excellent exposure of how teenagers can have a significant impact on the future. The story, set 300 year into the future shows how the narrator Blake Raintree, survives in her unstable society. Blake, as the main character of the novel in the beginning is blinded by the lies that people in great …show more content…
Blake reflects on their environmental position and also reflects on the conditions of the past. Blake expresses her feelings about their degraded environment when she says, “It seems hard to believe there was ever such a world, before the degradation of the environment filled with water and the soil and the air with toxins. My thoughts drift away.”(13).It becomes clear that their environment has become more unstable over time. This information strikes teenagers with the purpose of making them realize that our society is changing at a fast pace and if they do not make efforts to change the environment there will be many problems in the future. This information also purposely impacts teenagers because they have the power of numbers and ideas to demand change.When making sure to promote a better future. Later in the novel, Blake discovers more about the past and refers to the 21st century as the dark times when, “clouds of poison blew over from industrial zones” (39). Blake knows that it was a time of despair and directly speaks to people when referring to the, “dark times” so teenagers can feel overwhelmed by this information continuing to open their minds to greater
Learning about power, environment, as well as education, helps teenagers develop an opinion about ideas that are presented to this technological society with many issues. In fact, people have the opportunity to experience this in their everyday lives when listening to the radio, watching the news, or even when sharing ideas with someone. Janet McNaughton’s dystopian novel The Secret Under My Skin is an excellent exposure of how teenagers can have a significant impact on the future. The story, set 300 year into the future shows how the narrator Blake Raintree, survives in her unstable society. Blake, as the main character of the novel in the beginning is blinded by the lies that people in great …show more content…
Blake reflects on their environmental position and also reflects on the conditions of the past. Blake expresses her feelings about their degraded environment when she says, “It seems hard to believe there was ever such a world, before the degradation of the environment filled with water and the soil and the air with toxins. My thoughts drift away.”(13).It becomes clear that their environment has become more unstable over time. This information strikes teenagers with the purpose of making them realize that our society is changing at a fast pace and if they do not make efforts to change the environment there will be many problems in the future. This information also purposely impacts teenagers because they have the power of numbers and ideas to demand change.When making sure to promote a better future. Later in the novel, Blake discovers more about the past and refers to the 21st century as the dark times when, “clouds of poison blew over from industrial zones” (39). Blake knows that it was a time of despair and directly speaks to people when referring to the, “dark times” so teenagers can feel overwhelmed by this information continuing to open their minds to greater