“Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.” This quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky talks about how living in an imperfect world will impact us as people, though the quote doesn’t talk about dystopias directly, the genre is an example of how the world around us affects our minds. Though written in 2 extremely different dystopias, Flawed by Cecilia Ahern and Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse demonstrate an originally accepted hero, who later fights an overbearing government that takes control of the citizens lives. One similarity Alenna Shawcross and Celestine both share is that they are originally accepted in society however later realizes how wrong the rules really are. In Flawed, Celestine is dating
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In Flawed if a citizen makes a mistake they get flawed for life with a burning, also they must live by the rules saying, “You can’t go out past 10 pm, have to eat a certain diet, and can’t be in a place with 2 other flawed.” (140) Obviously people want to live out their normal free lives and live in fear of making a mistake. In addition, the Guild is controlled by one man Judge Krevan, everyone fears him making sure to never get on his bad side or else they will be flawed. This is similar to Forsaken where once again society is controlled by one man; Minister Harka. Evidently he decides who gets sent to the island for troubled teens also known as the Wheel, which is a place where many teens are sent if they have ‘bad blood’. A world isolated from all technology and civilization. However before the wheel, teens lived in a world where they are always watched, listened to with earpieces, and identification. Showing that if society lets one man control the lives of the citizens chaos will strike. Readers learns that though there are certain things the government should control (such as economy and trade) there comes a point when citizens should have freedom to make choices that will impact their own …show more content…
He was probably thinking that since we have to live by all the government rules. We should all come to an agreement with the rules and not have single people take advantage of it. Controlling governments run by one person are easily seen in Flawed and Forsaken, both characters also notice something wrong in society and set out to fix it. Though the likelihood of something like to this extreme happening in our lives, it teaches teens to notice when something isn’t right in their lives and have them fight for what's right, for themselves and everyone. We should remember the stories of these amazing fictional characters and attempt to be more like them in our own
In Flawed if a citizen makes a mistake they get flawed for life with a burning, also they must live by the rules saying, “You can’t go out past 10 pm, have to eat a certain diet, and can’t be in a place with 2 other flawed.” (140) Obviously people want to live out their normal free lives and live in fear of making a mistake. In addition, the Guild is controlled by one man Judge Krevan, everyone fears him making sure to never get on his bad side or else they will be flawed. This is similar to Forsaken where once again society is controlled by one man; Minister Harka. Evidently he decides who gets sent to the island for troubled teens also known as the Wheel, which is a place where many teens are sent if they have ‘bad blood’. A world isolated from all technology and civilization. However before the wheel, teens lived in a world where they are always watched, listened to with earpieces, and identification. Showing that if society lets one man control the lives of the citizens chaos will strike. Readers learns that though there are certain things the government should control (such as economy and trade) there comes a point when citizens should have freedom to make choices that will impact their own …show more content…
He was probably thinking that since we have to live by all the government rules. We should all come to an agreement with the rules and not have single people take advantage of it. Controlling governments run by one person are easily seen in Flawed and Forsaken, both characters also notice something wrong in society and set out to fix it. Though the likelihood of something like to this extreme happening in our lives, it teaches teens to notice when something isn’t right in their lives and have them fight for what's right, for themselves and everyone. We should remember the stories of these amazing fictional characters and attempt to be more like them in our own