The Comfort of Darkness

Lisa Fraustino makes a very good point of that we readers ” want to read about the child of dystopia who makes us feel hope for mankind”. Protagonists characters like Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen both hungry for the dystopian fantasy that we find so prominent in both series. Lisa thinks that the source of the hunger is ran by the dead in which the story takes place, is dominated by war, fear, climate change, economic hardship, class divides and an uncertain future. As readers we root for these characters to overcome the obstacles that their world faces. we as readers want to hold, but Lisa says ” the more we understand how small and powerless we really are against the immense forces that control our existence, the more we yearn to feel meaningful”. So that is why we readers read over and over about how the savior chid in the futuristic world saves society that was beyond compare. I absolutely agree with Lisa Fraustino, I am one of those readers who waited for the next Hunger Games book to come out because I wanted to see what Katniss would do next to save everyone she loves.  This can most certainly be related the The Giver, I think that no matter how crazy your future is in these types of novels, readers still want an answer to have hope the the world will be saved. Readers are inspired by Jonas and the courage to defy all he knows. I know as a child reading this book for the first time I thought of how I would have acted, and what I would have done. This is exactly what the readers should feel, Jonas’s attempt to save the dystopian future of his work inspire readers to save their world.

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