Summary Of The Novel 'The 100' By Kass Morgan

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The 100 is a novel written by Kass Morgan. Kass Morgan studied at Brown University to achieve her Bachelor’s degree for literature and then later got her Master’s degree at Oxford. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. The 100 is her most successful novel written and she has been awarded many things for this novel.

This novel takes place around 300 years after the Earth was exposed by radiation, which made the Earth not safe to be on. In the novel, humans are known as the “Colony”. This exposure of radiation to the Earth was called the Cataclysm, which killed millions of people and left many infected. The survivors were then shipped out to space and put into space cities (ships). The government knew that they had to do something, and it had

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