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  My perfect community would be called the Safe Zone. It would be run under a democracy still and would look like a perfectly clean and beautiful city with no litter, crime or any type of negative correlation that would put the city in a bad light. The main problems we would eliminate from society would be "cancel culture", people not being able to have freedom of their own opinion and just overall rudeness. The way we would do this is whenever someone ever has a bone to pick with someone else, they would have to go to a type of court where the person at question's actions would be judged on whether or not they actually did something wrong or not. If they did, they would have to publicly apologize to the person they wronged and to the whole city. If they didn't do anything wrong, the accuser would have to be the one to apologize to them and the whole city. Our community would grow by constantly eliminating crime, anger and overall evil from the world through the makin...

 "Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and after, a line drawn through his life." (Page 20) - I chose this quote because it does such a good job explaining how Jeevan knew at that exact moment, his life was going to change. Everything becomes so real to him so quickly and he starts realizing that everything is going to change around him. I relate to this quote a small bit because I just remember the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown and how I was just so worried about everything that could've happened. I really kept think about the "before and after" of the pandemic.  "AN INCOMPLETE LIST:"(Page 30) - I chose this quote because it just shows what the world has no more of, and it's kind of depressing when you realize that it's an incomplete list! I couldn't imagine living in a world without swimming pools, ball games, or just fun and life i...

1. Reading that epigraph immediately makes me think of other dystopian novels because this book is obviously going to be pretty dark. There's going to be a lot of darkness overshadowing the characters and the places surrounding them.  2. I think this novel opens up with the scene of the actor dying on stage because the author wants a tone set immediately. She wants you to know what exactly the tone of this novel is going to be. It's still pretty early but I'm intrigued by the characters. Obviously after reading the plot of the story, I know that Kristen is the protagonist, and the first two chapters introduce her as a scared eight-year-old who will most likely change a lot in the next twenty years of the story. I feel Javeen might have a bigger role later on in the story as he was one of the few people who had an actual name in the first chapter. Is he going to get sick since he was right next to Arthur? It's also kind of scary how everyone in that bar died in the span ...

 1. I feel that dystopian novels have such an appeal to readers because a lot of people are drawn to darker genres. They want to see how life could go wrong in a very specific way compared to how life is now. Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, they are both examples of very popular dystopian stories that have completely different types of dystopias.  2. According to the article, teenagers find dystopian articles appealing because they almost feel like they themselves live in a dystopia. The rules don't always make sense, school doesn't make sense, their parents don't always make sense and yet, they're expected to abide in any commandment their given. They see the dystopian novels as a realistic view to what they experience every day. (Albeit on a much more extreme level) 3. After watching the trailer, I can tell that something horrible happened in this world. ("We've never seen a flu like this..." or whatever they said in the trailer) That's what'...

 1. I've never been the biggest fan of homeschooling. I understand while a lot of parents do it, but it's just not for me. I feel like one of the biggest reasons to go to school isn't the education itself, but the social aspect of it all. I think it's so much easier to make friends at an actual school rather than it would be if you were homeschooled. I also feel like you won't be able to solve problems as well if you're not exposed to the real world at least a small bit. (This sounds very harsh, but I feel like if you're not bullied once in your life, you won't know how to deal with conflict properly when you're eventually by yourself. Again, I am not saying I want kids to be bullied! I've just seen some kids overly coddled by their parents when they're in homeschool) 2. Meghan's mom believed that her daughter learned a lot about the health care system when she spent four days in the hospital getting her appendix taken out. She also think...