Summary Of Ayn Rand's Among The Hidden

In society we experience a lot of problems that could have devastating effect on our planet and our society. These problems can range anywhere from pollution, to dictatorships, to even over population; if these problems are not controlled they could end up to the destruction of the world or possibly even a dystopian society. We as a society take these real world possibilities into consideration and look for the outcome in the form of literature. We imagine all the possibilities of an extraordinary event or catastrophe happening that if or when the time comes the people of our planet will be prepared. Although we try to be prepared by imagining all situations that could possible happen literature cannot explain how to fix the problem but it can give us ideas on how to fix it. Thus, leading us to the topic of how is overpopulation controlled and how does it correlate with the creation of a dystopian society? …show more content…
They people of a dystopian society are basically living in a dehumanized state which means that they are force to live under certain codes of law and have no freedom to be themselves in any way, shape, or form. This type of Bureaucratic society is quite prevalent in the book series Among the Hidden. In this story there is a child named Luke who is born into a dystopian society and has to live in hiding because he is a third child. The government he lives under has a fear of overpopulation so they set a limit as of how many children you are allowed to have. The limit was set at two so all other children born after that are known as shadow children and must be given to the government to they can be killed and taken care of or live a life of hiding. Although this is a fictional story, this could very well end up happening in our own society which will ultimately lead us to a