Descending over the San Gabriel mountains into LAX, Los Angeles, the gray rolling neighborhoods unfurling into the distant pillars of downtown leaping out of its famous smog, one can easily see the fortress narrative that Mike Davis argues for in City of Quartz. A city that has been thoroughly converted into a factory that dumps … Read more
“The Circle,” by Dave Eggers is a novel that centers around a girl named Mae Holland, who works at an internet technology company called The Circle that pursues to control flow of information in turn they can takeover the whole world. Mae unknowingly take part of the operation to complete the Circle and eventually be … Read more
Since the beginning, fire has been only known as destruction and despair. This seems to be true until Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 45, which has a perspective on fire being not just destruction but also warmth in a of world censorship that has gone out of touch with its human counterparts through its use of … Read more
Similar feminist shifts happens in Kunstler’s trilogy, although the shifts in his novels are not so pronounced or dramatic. His book is the most subtle of these three nextopian novels. In World Made by Hand, the main character describes a town meeting and notes that “all the trustees were men, no women and no plain … Read more
Perfectly Ripped Apart Our world is far from perfect and because our world is far from perfect, We have seen what perfection could actually be. In these examples, it’s clear that living in a perfect society does not lead to happiness. The Giver, a book by Lois Lowry is about a young boy’s travels through … Read more
Look around. I’m sure if you look around your house, you will find a book or two. Now imagine living in a society where books were not allowed. How would you learn things? How would information be passed down? Books provide so much to life, and think what life would be like if there was … Read more
Winston Churchill once said, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”. Whether they’re your enemies or your friends, it always right to stand up against an issue and challenge them, or else there will never be a change in society. Ray … Read more
Anthem by Ayn Rand is set in the heart in a dystopian world of the future, and in stark contrast to other dystopian novels, the world of Anthem is technologically undeveloped instead of advanced, is quite primitive, and devolved from modern-day technology, but with the conditions for technological processes, it is no wonder that society … Read more
Within Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’, each modern novel’s societies present their central women characters as being enslaved. Whilst each society is entirely different as ‘The Year of the Flood’ is post-apocalyptic and on the other hand ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ follows the ever changing political situation in … Read more
The Triangle Waist Factory was a three story building on top of the Asch Building, occupied with around 500, mostly female, workers from 16 to 23 years of age, this was recorded by the New York Times newspaper. [1] Even though in the building, the workers were spaced very poorly, barely a few feet away … Read more
