Dystopia vs Utopia

1. Dystopia vs Utopia

2. What is the key difference? • The key differences between dystopian and utopian fiction can be found in how the story is constructed and told.

3. Dystopian Society Government Controlled Strong Military Gov’t Lead Dystopia Segregated Balance Oppressed Warning Message Despair

4. Utopian Society Council Guided Voice of People Work for Greater Good Utopia Integrated Balance Equal Community Focused Message Hope

5. Literature Examples of Societies Utopian Dystopian The Giver by Lois Lowry 1984 by George Orwell Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Divergent by Veronica Roth

6. What about theHunger Games? Background • The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. • Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story

7. Themes • In an interview with Collins, it was noted that the novel "tackles issues like severe poverty, starvation, oppression, and the effects of war among others." • The novel deals with the struggle for self-preservation that the people of Panem face in their districts and the Hunger Games in which they must participate. • The citizens' starvation and their need for resources, both in and outside of the arena, create an atmosphere of helplessness that the main characters try to overcome in their fight for survival.

8. Complexity • The choices the characters make and the strategies they use are often morally complex.

9. Agenda for Today --------- • Design your own Hunger Games Folder • Create your Brace Map • Create your Double Bubble Map

10. Coming ---------------------------- • Author Study- Q/A • Gladiators – Expository Writing Piece • Theseus & the Minotaur – Summarization of Events