Suzann In Divergent, Maze Runner, And The 5th Wave

Today’s society is a remarkable example of the future. Looking back, society has become a science fiction world. Children are no longer playing outside, but are playing on video games. People are no longer making telephone calls, they are texting and emailing all their communication. When these works about a dystopian world are examined, mostly society has fallen due to the fact of our technology, waring, and experimentation. Therefore, it is not hard to imagine that we are very far away from living in a dystopia. The subgenre has grown in popularity over the last decade related to books like, The Hunger Games, Divergent, Angelfall, Maze Runner, and The 5th Wave. The word dystopia is described as an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totaltarian or environmentally degraded one. (Oxford Dictionaries-Luanguage matters, ) Older works stand the test of time since the genre is a type of science fiction. The stories are never truly outdated since they occur in a parallel reality. Current news events also reinforce the fact that the society is trending towards a dystopia as well. School shootings, theatre shootings, and press coverage of ISIS along with their atrocities are more similar to the dystopia universe than they are to today’s culture. …show more content…
Her specific society is also based in the United States, that place being Chicago. There are factions instead of districts. These five factions function as the Capital and run the dystopian environment. These factions are not enslaved like the people of Panem, but they are also not free. Before half of the book is over, Tris has suffered from emotional and physical abuse, bullying, and attempted murder. Divergent ends with an uprising and a genocide all started by Erudite leaders, whose strengths are based on intelligence. Tris in the end is a heroine that gives her life in order to save