Outline Part 1: The Nature of Your Topic in Literature
I.
Guiding Question: What social critiques are commonly made about the topic in literature and
film?
In the future, the government will be playing useful role in the future. The government is more clairvoyant
than its citizens; in addition the government will be lead to bright future. Through my independent reading,
you wont perceive only how the government will help us make right choices, but also guide us to the right
path. The government itself critiques that citizens need to step up for what’s fair and take the responsibility
for there doings no matter hard it is to archive .No matter what it take to archive whatsoever you deserve .
a. Among The Hidden by Margaret Haddix
i. [Social critiques 1: Individuals have to fight for there rights and not give up
without fighting for what they deserve and should be equal.]
1. [Example 1: Luke is one of certain character who is scared to go as the
government famine law would punish the third child. Luke in this
passage is thinking about all the things that he was able to do before
when there was woods because there he could play by hidden by the
tall grass in which the government population police wouldn't be able
to see through anyone playing.
a. [Quote: “He had never disobeyed the order to hide. Even as a
toddler, barely able to walk in the backyard's tall grass, he had
somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on
this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he
hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented
with clover and honeysuckle and-coming from far away-pine
smoke. He laid his hoe down gently, and savored one last
moment of feeling warm soil beneath his bare feet. He
reminded himself, "I will never be allowed outside again.
Maybe never again as long as I live." Chapter 1]
2. [Example 2: Mother is inferring from both sides that it’s not them it’s
the law which they have to follow even though his parents made a
grave mistake by not listening to its government. Now they are
stopping their son to do the same as to hide so even though if they find
out this they will get in trouble .His parents now don’t want to face any
trouble so Luke better not come to the kitchen and have lunch with his
family.]
a. [Quote: “Luke, honey? Can you eat sitting on the bottom step
there? Dad thinks-I mean, it’s not safe anymore to have you in
the kitchen. You can still eat with us, and talk to us and all, but
you’ll be…over here…” His chair wasn’t even in the kitchen
anymore. For awhile, Luke watched Dad, Mother, Matthew,
and Mark eating in silence his throat, ready to protest again.
You can’t do this-it’s not fair—Then He choked back the
words, unspoken. They were only trying to protect him. What
could he do? Resolutely, Luke stuck his fork in the pile of
scrambled eggs… He ate the whole plateful of food without
tasting any of it.” Chapter 4]
b. Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
i. [Social critique 1: What our society could be like if we become desensitized to
trauma and to each other’s pain. As a what would happen when people have to
compete to live .If we don’t change the way we have to live based on the
situation where children will be competing to live. On the other hand the
government is being brutal and there stupidity]
1. [Example 1: Because of too many rebellions in the city. The people had
to provide one girl and one boy from each district who participate and
they are taking into a” vast out door arena “a place where anything is
c.
possible from a “burning desert to a frozen waste land. The main
Purpose of this is to remind the Districts how weak they are and that
their deaths are basically televised entertainment.]
a. [Quote: The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In
punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must
provide one girl and one boy, called tributes to participate.
The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor
arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a
frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the
competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing
wins. (1.75)]
2. [Example 2: At the press of “Chicken and chunks of organs cooked in a
creamy sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green pears
etc.Kattiness started to compare with the food she had back home.
Chickens are “too expensive .She wonders what it must be like to live
in a world where food appears at the press of a “button?” She had to
spend hours of to just get a meal .The Capital is a place of seemingly
infinite wealth, especially compared with District 12 .One meal of
theirs as Katniss notes, would take her days to assemble.]
a. [Quote: He presses a button on the side of the table. The top
splits and from below rises a second tablecloth that holds our
lunch. Chicken and chunks of orange cooked in a creamy
sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain…I try to imagine
assembling this meal myself back home. Chickens are too
expensive, but I could make do with a wild turkey. I’d need to
shoot a second turkey to trade for an orange... What must it be
like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the
press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now
commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy
to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the
Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for
a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their
entertainment?” (Chapter 5)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
i. [social critique 1: Perfect society includes where everyone is treated equally no
matter which state they are in and everyone deserve to live happily. Individual
take the responsibility for every action they take.]
1. [Example 1: Everything is under control there are rules and order
which are written by the Giver. The community has to follow with the
rule
a. [Quote: Lily giggled. "Well," she said, "I thought maybe just
this once."
Next, Mother, who held a prominent position at the
Department of
Justice, talked about her feelings. Today a repeat offender had
been brought before her, someone who had broken the rules
before. Someone who she hoped had been adequately and
fairly
punished, and who had been restored to his place: to his job,
his
home, his family unit. To see him brought before her a second
time
caused her overwhelming feelings of frustration and anger.
And
even guilt, that she hadn't made a difference in his life.
"I feel frightened, too, for him," she confessed. "You know
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II.
that
there's no third chance. The rules say that if there's a third
transgression, he simply has to be released." Jonas shivered.
He
knew it happened. There was even a boy in his group of
Elevens
whose father had been released years before. No one ever
mentioned it; the disgrace was unspeakable. It was hard to
imagine.]
[Example 2: The Committee of Elders wanted to increase the rate of
births. so that the population would increase and there would be more
Laborers available. However according to The Giver related to the
strongest memory that came was “hunger”. ]
a. [Quote: Some years ago," The Giver told him, "before your
birth, a lot of
citizens petitioned the Committee of Elders. They wanted to
increase the rate of births. They wanted each Birthmother to
be
assigned four births instead of three, so that the population
would
increase and there would be more Laborers available."
Jonas nodded, listening. "That makes sense."
"The idea was that certain family units could accommodate an
additional child."…””Excruciating hunger and starvation. It
was followed by warfare."
Warfare? It was a concept Jonas did not know. But hunger
was
familiar to him now. Unconsciously he rubbed”]
Guiding Question: What changes in behavior and/or ideology are suggested through the text?
a. Among The Hidden by Margaret Haddix
i. [Never think only for yourself think about others and think over your
decisions.]
1. [example 1:] Even though the parents weren't allowed to have third
child because it was against the law. Because of there parents the third
child to hide that mean there was no point in living the whole life
hiding. They all wanted to have there best child hood as there other
brothers and sisters having.
a. [Quote: 'I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!' (Haddex .]
2. [example : The government was controlling its people by making them
realize that it could be harmful for those who really had third child. As
first in the late century the government used the propaganda to
manipulate people. We can explore through the knowledge Jen had
about those poster government had up by the titles of women who were
pregnant]
a. [Quote: who’s worst criminal? under a picture of a pregnant
lady” it had a picture of a huge pregnant belly with the label,
ladies do you want to look like this.” ]
b. Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
i. [To not always treat others like joke instead understand what they are going
through.In the book, people more carried about there bodies and entertainment
not much of there feelings.]
1. [example 1: The people in district were not human compared to the
people in capital moreever they were entertainment for them.]
a.
c.
The Giver by Lois Lowry
i. [Stop thinking that the government is the only resource to guide you at ever
point in life instead learns to make right choice by your self. Think over it before
making mistake. ]
1. [Example 1: The giver suggesting that the people often seem to make
careless mistakes in hurry or he could actually use his previous
knowledge to relate to the given problems.]
a. [Quote: The Giver said yes. "And the strongest memory that
came was
hunger. It came from many generations back. Centuries back.
The
population had gotten so big that hunger was everywhere.
Excruciating hunger and starvation. It was followed by
warfare."
Warfare? It was a concept Jonas did not know. But hunger
was
familiar to him now. Unconsciously he rubbed
his own abdomen, recalling the pain of its unfulfilled needs.
"So you
described that to them?"
"They don't want to hear about pain. They just seek the advice.
I
simply advised them against increasing the population."(112)
[Example 1: It’s not the people who actually decide what’s right for
them it’s us the Giver who decide it for them. At last he meant its “not
safe” The Giver suggested. The Giver made assured Jonas that there are
really people who are we have to protect from making “wrong
choices”. Which everyone thinks that it’s fair enough to say that
everyone needs guidance as in reality we need teacher to teach us right
lesson.]
a. [Quote: He grabs toys when we hold them in front of him—
my father says he's learning small-muscle control.(99)]
Guiding Question: What overlap or commonality do you see among the texts?
a. [Commonality #1:All three of the text I read, the common idea that people never think
over what they have done or will do instead they make huge mistake. ]
i. In Among The Hidden by Margaret Haddix,the father and mother make grave
mistake by breaking the law which was the famine law passed by there
government .They didn’t seem to understand what it could lead to such as they
wont actually be risking there own life but the third child also who actually
wasn’t at any fault.
ii. In Hunger Game Trilogy by Suzanne Collins .Kittness and people weren’t at any
fult but the peole living in the Captial were.Those people in advanced world
where as they didn’t had any feelings toward the Districist 1 thorugh 12 and that
made them different from the Kittness world.But in reality the capital was trying
to limit the people so they could have food for the other half.
iii. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas and the Giver were given the tasks to take
the burden to them and have the other compputy live happily care free.In
addition they would make there people to follow what they wanted without any
question to stable the problem and limit fear, pain etc.
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III.
[Quote: “What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol,
besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new
shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?”
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