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Dystopian is opposite word of utopian. It
describes the society which is developed
negatively. The dystopian society has
dictatorial government and people are
under the control. Thus, people can not
express their own opinions or thoughts
freely. In addition this dystopian society is
often very violence or warfare.
Moreover, sometimes there is huge
poverty in this society.
Tae Guk GI :
brotherhood of war
This movie is about Korean war which
is occurred in 1950. In this movie
brother s appear and they go to war
because the government force the
young men to go to war. They try
hard to survive from the war. But big
brother misunderstand that his
young brother is killed because of
south Korean soldiers and try to take
revenge to South Korea. Thus, he
goes to North Korea and becomes
North Korea Soldiers but he found
out that his little brother isn’t killed
and he fight against North Korea
again . However, at the end of this
movie he died
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This book describes utopian society through war.
Seven kids who live in a countryside town went
to camp to Hell that is other side of Tailor’s
which is an arete. After they came back from
the camp they found out that their country is
invaded and they went back to their camp
place to hide.
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I got big impression when I read the part where
these 7 kids found out that their country is
invaded. This is because the description of this
invasion is very detail so I can easily imagine
how the dystopian society looks like. (continue
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For example in the first part of the description, it
describes how their dogs were dead. And it says
‘… Their eyes were red and desperate…now their
chains were stretched and still and there was
blood around their necks,…’
The second thing that I got impression is that even
though there is no huge violence it makes me
scared about war. In this book 7 kids appear and
when they came back from their camp, there was
no one in their town and there wasn’t even
electricity so they can not contact with anyone
which means there is no one can help them.
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Because there was no one can help them
they had to protect themselves. It makes
me scared because I felt that when there is
war, there is actually no one can help me. I
should survive by myself. In addition through
this empty town I felt that war can take
everything from me.
 In the book it says ‘ She picked up the
phone handed it to me… realised that I’d
heard no dial tone.’ and ‘But all was silent.’
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Even though this book is about war, blood and
violence don’t appear often. But it shows
emptiness. When 7 kids came back there was
nothing. They can not find any sign of life. In the
book it says ‘There was no sign of life at all…At that
time of day there should have been food spread
out on the kitchen table…” Through this emptiness,
the novel is saying that war gives us not only blood
and violence but it takes everything from us. In
addition, it is saying that there is no one can help
us when there is war so, we have to survive
ourselves. And this book is saying it through how
these 7 kids survive from this war and what they
feel about this war
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In this book, sometimes 7 kids remembered
their memories when they are young. They
miss the time when they are young and
when there isn’t war. Through this, I think the
novel is saying that war takes all our
happiness, love and their peace. However,
in this book, even though these 7 kids are in
danger they overcome it and I think the
novel gives a message to the countries in
the war that they still have hope to
overcome this war.
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This book is saying that war give us more
than violence and if the war is started it is
very hard to stop it. In addition it says us
that although we start the war for our
benefits, at the end of the war we realize
that there is nothing that we gain except
blood and violence. Thus, I think this novel is
written to warn us that war takes everything
from us so the world will be empty. In
addition it is written to tell us that we should
give up our war.
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This novel is telling us the story of 7 kids who
try hard to overcome this war and it doesn’t
contain much description of how people
died and how people get physical harm.
Thus, we can read this book without any
antipathy and we understand easily about
war and what the writer is saying. In
addition because kids appear and protect
them against the country which invade
their town, it makes us think of adventurous
story so we can enjoy our reading more
and it prevent us to feel deep sorrow or fear
after we read this book. Therefore, I think
this book is quite successful.
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I think this novel is very closely related to our
society because there is always probability
that the war is occurred. So, we can be in
same situation as these 7 kids. In addition
these days North Korea threat South Korea
that they will attack South Korea so,
especially to me this novel is very closely
related. This novel is related to dystopian as
well. In dystopian society we are under the
control so we can not express our opinions
freely and this society is warfare. Therefore,
this novel reflects how the dystopian world
looks like.
Thank you for listening!!!