LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Even though the Capitol on its own forms a utopia, the dystopian aspects all over the rest of Panem outweigh the utopian aspects. Because of that you can say that the novel “The Hunger Games“ by Suzanne Collins is a typical dystopian novel.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hunger Games is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia called Panem. A dystopia is an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Those elements are: inequality, oppression, the abuse of advanced technology (especially throughout the reality show), the pessimistic outlook on life, the control of information, the loss of free will and identity, scapegoating, distraction, etc.
Detailed explanation-5: -The dystopian genre imagines worlds or societies where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror, and human society is characterized by human misery, such as squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war.