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In this assessment, I argued that strict information control and censorship is crucial to totalitarian regime survival, existing both in Marie Lu’s Legend and the Great Firewall of China in the modern PRC. I selected the Op-ed choice because I felt that it was effective in making my writing more persuasive and gives it a more urgent tone to prove dystopian fiction amplifies real-world threats. My greatest challenge during this project was finding a current issue that best aligns with the novel’s plot. Through this process, I learned how to connect novels to critical modern-day issues in the world.

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Yeseo & Stellar's Podcast [Matched by Ally Condie]

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Yeseo & Stellar's Podcast [Matched by Ally Condie]

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ELA Dystopian Unit Final (Podcast) - HD 1080p

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The Case Against the Society-Matched by Allie Condie.

Our team worked on this assessment in a podcast format to explore the theme of extreme control. We really enjoyed while completing this assignment and learned to make a connection between the context and real-world instances.

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Completing this assessment was a creative exciting experience because I designed a board game inspired by the novel Feed. My central idea was to show how technology and endless consumerism reveals how it influences can affect people's choices and thinking, which was one of the main themes of the book. Creating a board game helped me express this idea because players would make their own decisions choosing between comfort and personal freedom, while experiencing consequences and challenges faced by some characters in the novel. The most significant challenge I faced making this board game was finding ideas and ways to turn the novel's important themes and plots into an enjoyable. During the process of making the game, I gained a deeper understanding of the book of how Feed influences its society to depend on the system, also exposes the truth of consumer culture and the negative of relying too much on technology. I also learned to think creatively by turning ideas from a novel into interactive gameplay. Overall, this project helped me develop my thinking and problem-solving skills in a meaningful way.

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This summative was very special for me because it was truly one of a kind. I've never done a group project like this and it was nice to come together with my friend Nathan to create something like this. Though it is sloppy and a not perfect, it reflects what makes us human; not being perfect. This summative will always hold a place in my heart and I won't be forgetting it in a while. Creds to Nathan for doing the editing.

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My central idea is that Feed’s dystopian warning about constant, personalized advertising is already interrupting independent thinking and genuine care, a trend connected to today’s social media algorithms. The format of a technology news article, paired with structured argument sections (Hook, Claim, Novel Evidence, Real-World Evidence, Counterargument, Call to Action), helped me express this clearly by making a straightforward, side‑by‑side comparison between fiction and current world events, causing the abstract concept to feel urgent and extreme. The most significant challenge was balancing the novel’s use of irony with a serious tone for the real‑world evidence, especially when integrating the Surgeon General’s advisory without sounding like an alarmist. I learned that Feed is not just a strange future but a sharp mirror. Creating this piece taught me how to trace a single but big warning across time periods and social media. As a learner, I discovered that dystopian novels aren’t just interesting plots that intrigue readers, but also signs of warnings to help us thrive in the real world.

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Reflection: My central idea is that what the characters are expeirencing in the book is happening to us the same way but in a different form. And we don’t recognize them. And one of the mose significant challenges i faced is just thinking of the real world issue that connects and i think overall i just learn alot about the book and how i make this thing

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Reflection: While writing this op-ed on Divergent, I learned how the author used multiple symbols that assimilate to and amplify a tragic historical event to warn the readers about the cruelty of prejudice towards others. By writing and researching instead of just thinking about the topic, I realized there were numerous factors that both the book and the Nazi’s traits have. However, it was challenging for me to write and explain the connection between the Nazi and the novel, while using the evidence to link with the author’s message. Nevertheless, the effort of explaining them helped me learn about how severe prejudice can be extremely dangerous and cruel.

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I had a great experience creating my Op-Ed - I do debate, which helps me develop a persuasive Op-Ed, but certain parts remained challenging, such as finding real-world examples. Scythe’s plot remains very far away from us - a world where people conquer everything and cannot die. While the examples seem distant, I was surprised to find that in around 17 nations, people still cannot choose to die through suicide, resembling the plot in Scythe - and on a broader scale, bodily autonomy is a major concern in Scythe, portrayed through the Auschwitz death camp where people were used as experimental subjects. That was when I learnt that Scythe may not be so distant - and in many countries, bodily autonomy is stripped but under the reason of religion - similar to what happens in Scythe, but the reason is “we conquered the world and we believe you mustn’t want to die.” Through my research, I decided that my final theme would be the loss of autonomy that occurs both historically and in the present world.

An Op-Ed allowed me to express my understanding of Scythe by forming my thoughts into a convincing, compelling essay that alarms readers of what could happen when we lose bodily autonomy - and it was an especially useful, successful expression because I prefer to express my opinions through speech and words.

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Week 40 May 18 - June 1 Final Dystopian Assignment (8) Option 3: Visual Essay

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Reflection: My central idea was that hidden truth/the Republic’s false story is one of the most important motifs in Legend. I chose a visual essay because the timeline format helped show how the motif develops from small private secrets into larger government lies. The most challenging part was choosing evidence that showed change instead of just summarizing the plot. I learned that in Legend, the Republic’s power depends not only on violence, but also on controlling what people are allowed to believe.

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Throughout this assignment, my central idea was to show how real-life corruption, specifically the political corruption of Ferdinand Marcos in the late 20th century, related to unchecked power and corruption in my book, Scythe. I think my chosen format helped me express this by allowing me to put visuals along with argument that really allowed for my claim to be expressed. The most significant challenge I faced throughout this assignment was structuring the OP-ED and coming up with the counterargument. However, after further exploring my topic and claim, I found a compelling counterargument that I could respond to and overcame my aesthetics issues by using Canva, an easier website to navigate compare to Word. This allowed me to finish my OP-ED and structure it neatly and comfortable to read.

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My central idea was that love and identity resist control more powerfully than any faction label ever could. I chose to draw the graphic novel to help me express this because panel sizes, placement, and color does the work words cannot. It visually reveals the emotional anchor. For example, controlling the panel size to show the most important conflict, and using pictures as words. Tears flying away as ravens reveal sorrow becomes strength, and no longer strapped int the past. The biggest challenge was choosing the arrangement for the panels. Should healing be as large as violence? Does panel 3 (Tobias’s eyes brightening) need more space, or does its power come from focused details. This craft taught me that visual storytelling allows us to focus on making choices to deepen the understanding of the theme in ways writing alone never could. About my novel, I learned Divergent isn’t choosing one identity, it doesn’t have a definition. You can break the box and be who you think you are.

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Lesley's graphic novel thematic analysis

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This scene is significant by connecting to the dystopian story "Legend" by Marie Lu, showing the most important turning point in the plot. It is the time where main character June found out that her beloved country is hiding the horrifying fact that they are using kids who failed the trial for biological experiments and killing the ones that have no use for the republic. She realized she was getting fooled for 15 years of her life and felt betrayal from her country. She decides to help the other main character, Day, with his plan of destroying the republic's secret conspiracy. I used no color for all of the panels because it looks more desperate (the scenes) visually. The story at this part was also told from June's perspective, meaning it's the character's thought from start to finish of my graphic novel. I also made some panels bigger than the others to make some of the scenes look more stunning. I added a lot of details in those big panels to express the emotions June have. Some close-ups at the eye where added multiple times, because the eyes are a major way for people to express emotions, and by drawing those eyes, expressions are shown directly just by seeing them in different shapes. "I'm going to help Day escape," says the book in page 251, is what June had gone through in her inner thoughts and finally decides to claim that as her decision. It is also what the whole scene was aiming, so by adding facial expressions with the background for decorations helped a lot to modify the scenes.

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Reflection: My central idea is that economic and power differences can lead to social issues. This chosen format helps me express the idea by providing a visual plus lot of evidence to prove this central idea. My understanding with analysis is well expressed using this format and added lots of information within this template. The most significant challenge I face is to gather information about real-world problems. I learned that the novel and real world are closely connected, with lots of similarities. The novel talks about the story that social inequality won’t lead to success, and it would cause more problems.

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Language Arts OP-Ed + Visual Final Project

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Thematic Analysis:

This scene is significant to Legend’s theme, because it plays a crucial part in revealing and further emphasizing the corruption of the Republic, as they choose to directly eliminate even the peaceful protestors, without warning and without mercy. Not only that, but it also connects to the real-life scenario of the Hong Kong protests, as according to BBC, “The politicians’ stalls at the fair are gone, protests have been silenced and pro-democracy campaigners jailed.” In this real-world scenario, protestors fighting for freedom were also silenced and shut down by the government, but just in less brutal ways like tear gas, whereas the dial is turned way up in Legend, with the Republic (government) directly executing whoever exposes them. This dial screams the loudest in the quote, “’Bullets rain down on the square. People in the crowd collapse like levees in a flood.” (Lu, 214) The author’s choice of describing the crowd as, “levees in a flood” just goes to show how powerless the protestors are against absolute authority, because the “flood,” (Republic) is ruthless, and won’t care to spare the levees, causing them to collapse suddenly, collectively, and helplessly. Through this, the author further reinforces the idea of the corruption and injustice of the Republic. This scene is also a key part of June’s crack/awakening toward distrusting the Republic, as her view of the Republic being a perfect society gets challenged. Along with that, she also starts to despise Thomas, as what she once viewed as her brother’s loving and caring friend has become a cold-blooded murderer and grown distant, obeying the Republic’s kill orders without question. This cruel truth is also revealed in the quote, “...he feels guilty only for throwing me to the ground. Not for the massacre he’s leaving behind.” (Lu, 214) The visual choices I chose also reflect this reality, as Thomas’ face slowly becomes distorted and darker, eventually becoming the "monster,” that June now sees him as. The scene’s significance is also shown through June’s reaction and utter shock to the events unfolding, shifting her worldview. The use of unified black for the soldiers also reveals the conformity everyone working for the Republic (including Thomas) shows, even if something they’re during is morally wrong. In the end, June is the only one who isn’t, “conformed,” in the scene (shown through her constant colour), showing not only her defiance, but her willingness to seek true justice and righteousness, even if that isn’t the definition that others give.

Final Reflection:

My central idea for this experience completing this assessment was corruption and injustice, as it is not only present throughout the book, but it screams out and is hard to ignore in this scene specifically. The chosen format helped me express these ideas, because I incorporated what I felt and deep meanings/truths within the novel like Thomas showing the true monster he is and the shock I felt when this happened inside my comic strip elements. The most significant challenge I faced was making and thinking of meaningful design choices when planning my comic, but I managed to get ideas from the instructions, like panel size variation, colour choice, etc. I then incorporated these ideas into my comic, like using colour choice to represent the themes of corruption (as mentioned in my thematic analysis). This made me learn that when crafting a graphic novel, the process isn’t just about how visually appealing it is, but also about the symbolic and deeper meaning behind all the drawings, which is incorporated in the visuals.

Bibliography:

“A shadowy commander standing before pillars similar to a government building.” prompt. DALL·E, OpenAI, 26 May 2026, chat.openai.com/.

“A commander’s hand aggressively pushing a young teenage soldier girl to the ground in front of a pillared governmental building” prompt. DALL·E, OpenAI, 26 May 2026, chat.openai.com/.

“Shocked, distressed military woman shouting” prompt. DALL·E, OpenAI, 26 May 2026, chat.openai.com/.

Wong, Tessa, et al. "Silenced and Erased, Hong Kong's Decade of Protest Is Now a Defiant Memory." BBC, 1 Dec. 2024, www.bbc.com/news/articles/c888jnvq4x4o. Accessed 28 May 2026.

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Reflection : My central idea was that the most serious threat during extreme situation is the unequal power that decides who is allowed to survive. I explored this idea through The Maze Runner and connected it to real-world where wealth and authority influence who is able to gain safety and resources. The essay format helped me express this idea clearly because it allowed me to build a structured argument step by step, moving from the novel to real-world evidence and build the central claims that this novel try to tell readers about in reality. One of the biggest challenges I faced was organizing my ideas clearly because I struggled to identify the most important central ideas among trivial thoughts and how they connected to my argument. Through the process of thinking repeatedly, I learned how to think critically about the novel, especially the dystopian novel, and select evidence that best supported my central idea. This helped me understand the novel on a deeper level, not a shallow level. As a learner, I realized that analytical writing starts with clear thinking, and that strong ideas come from connection rather than simply writing more.

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Summer's thematic analysis, reflection and evidence sheet

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Reflection

Completing this assessment allowed me to dive deeper into the world of Scythe and explore how the motif “Scythe” evolves across the novel. My central idea was that the motif shifts its meaning depending on the user. In the book Scythe, scythe not only is an identity, but a fine weapon itself. The meaning of the symbol depends completely on its owner. Choosing a digital visual essay was helpful because it allows me to visually contrast these shifts and make the development of the symbol crystal clear. The most significant challenge I faced may be finding visuals that fit my scenes on canva. Through this process, I learned a strong theme of the book that absolute power tests human conscience.

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For this Visual Essay on Feed by M.T. Anderson my central idea show how the symbol of the Feed changes throughout the novel. At first, zfeed appears as conveninent tool that gives people quick access to information and makes life more efficient. However, as the story develops, the Feed becomes a symbol of consumerism and dehumanization, stripping individual of independence. Choosing the visual essay format was the exact prompt to express my understanding of the symbol’s meaning and how the meaning develops as the story unfold through image and analysis of the quote. During the process of creating this project, the significant challenges I faced was selecting the right moment $on the book to show a clear shift of the symbol, while analysising the moment with clarity and concise match. One thing I want to point out what I learned in the process of completing this project is how to track a symbol across a novel and show how its meaning changes.

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Reflection: My central idea is about the change of symbol(Bread) throughout the book. This format help me express my idea by providing specific quotes, visuals and evidence to prove my idea. A challenge I face is to find a way to express the symbols changes better. I learned that the symbols changes through events and emotions.

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Language Art Visual Essay by Kenneth Chang-5

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Reflection: My central idea was that the Mockingjay pin symbolizes hope, survival, and rebellion in The Hunger Games. The symbol and motif format helped me show how the Mockingjay's meaning develops as the story progresses. The most significant challenge I faced was finding strong quotes and explaining their deeper meaning. Through this project, I learned that symbols can reveal important themes in this novel such as courage and resistance against injustice

What was your central idea, and how did your chosen format help you express it? What was the most significant challenge you faced, and what did you learn — about your novel, about your craft, or about yourself as a learner?

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Tylers Podcast -The Last Book In The Universe

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Tylers Podcast -The Last Book In The Universe

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My central idea was that both The Last Book in the Universe and Feed show how technology can control your mind, but they have different messages about whether you can fight back. The podcast format helped me express this because I could compare the two books side by side and use two voices to highlight the differences, like how Spaz survives while Violet dies. The biggest challenge was adding real-world research without making it sound boring or like a textbook. I learned that Feed is more depressing than I thought because Violet resists but still loses, while The Last Book has hope since Spaz makes it to Eden.

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Throughout this assessment about The Last Book in the Universe, my central idea was that physical books can be destroyed, but stories and memories live inside people and will never get destroyed or forgotten. I chose visual essay for this assignment because breaking the symbol into separate scenes where it's the beginning, middle, end parts made it easy to show how the book shift from simple pieces of paper to influencing a huge amount of people in the Urb.

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Dystopian Book Club Annoated Symbol Tracking

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My intention for choosing to write an op-ed is to connect my novel to reality, thereby warning readers of the dangers of social media. After reading Feed, a novel that was written several decades ago, I was incredibly alarmed by how similar our world is to the illustrated dystopian world. Currently, we are gradually moving away from face-to-face connections, and spending more time on social media with algorithms that keep us attracted to videos and the content it provides. Instead of reasonably using social media as a tool, we are starting to be consumed by social media due to our over-reliance on it. One stunning fact that I learned while researching is 18% of American teenagers realize how social media is already causing damage to their mental health. However, more than half of them is unwilling to give up these platforms. During the process of writing the op-ed, the most significant challenge I faced was to move away from traditional literary analysis essays to a more stylish, argumentative piece. Writing these two types of essays are entirely different experiences, because as an author, creating an op-ed has so much less restrictions on what I should be writing about. My opinion matters more than the facts themselves.

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ELA Distopian Collage Warning Piece - Daniel Wang

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ELA Dystopian Unit Final Assessment - Daniel Wang

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Reflection:My major goal of this visual essay is to show how the symbolism of mindprobes play a important role throughout the book. In the last book of the universe, mindprobes was just an enterntainment tool at first but it later changed to the symbolism of escapism and violence. I want to use this symbol to show how desire and demands affect people and also the society.

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Visual Essay The Last Book in the Universe

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Bianca's Graphic Novel on the Hunger Games

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Bianca's Graphic Novel on the Hunger Games

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Bianca's Thematic Statement, Reflection and Evidence Sheet

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Bright's Op-Ed

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Normalization of Segregation How Divergent Connects to Our World

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David Kwon Block- C dystopian collage (6)

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Emily's uh Visual Essayy :D

ELA Visual Essay Summative Reflection

The central idea I had when creating my visual essay was to show the significance of the motif of the Akron AWOL, and how it reveals a lot more about the dystopian world than simply acting as a title for the protagonist. My chosen format, Visual Essay, was an efficient way for me to express how the motif evolves throughout the chapters. It was a good blend of analysis/ explanations, and graphic documentation. The most significant challenge I faced during the creative process was likely putting everything together- the annotations, graphics, quotes, intro, and everything, while making it look cohesive. I had all the sperate parts ready, but none of them followed a color scheme which really annoyed me because I thought it didn’t look good together. Thankfully, I figured it out by weaving in other elements that took attention away from the brightly colored visuals and made the whole thing look harmonic. From this challenge I learned that I do enjoy this method of completing creative projects- first preparing everything separately and then adding them all together. The process was very soothing and kinda therapeutic, even if there were a few obstacles, because I enjoyed this assignment a lot.

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For this assignment, I choose to do an op-ed because I wanted to reflection a issue I see in my own

life, which is the abusement of technology, and I knew that my abilites as a writer would help me

convey this idea most meaningfully through an op-ed.

One challenge I faced was trying to get all my ideas down onto paper and then find the sources to

support my thinking, but throught this process, I was able to connect small things I noticed in the

book to some real life scenarios I’ve seen, and now, I could find shocking or interesting facts to

support this connection. It’s made me appreciate how feed buries these little interesting problems

and subplots evenly throughout the storyline to have them come together at the ending, to really

drive in the lesson and creating this awareness for the reader.

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My central idea was to show Katniss and Peeta’s rebellion against the Capitol, I chose the graphic novel choice because I think it can best represent the story and the theme I want to express. By representing the story visually, I gained more experience creating digital art, and learned more about how to reflect a written theme into a visual representation. I believe the graphic novel choice can express the central idea the best because it is more visual so the readers can understand it clearly. The most significant challenge I faced was my drawing skills, because I haven’t acquired the skills draw out what I want the comic to be in my head, so I am not really satisfied with the final product, however, through this experience I have gained more drawing skills, and I believe I have improved a lot.

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My central idea for this summative was the flint striker and the journey of how it transforms across the novel from a gift of love into a monument of grief, showing how even small objects can carry the weight of identity, rebellion and loss. This small object changed as Haymitch worked through his character arc, making it an important symbol worth deeply analyzing. This format of a visual essay helped me express this since each image paired with its annotation could illustrate a different stage of the striker’s meaning without me writing each connection directly and blandly in words. This is because the images I drew all held insights and a tie to the theme, making them tools to create my analysis. The most significant challenge I faced was brainstorming ideas for the visuals since it was hard to think of a scene I could draw that is at a moderate difficulty and conveys deep symbolic arguments and not only being literal drawings. For instance, for stage 4, I wanted to draw an explosion at first, but I kept on telling myself that it wasn’t enough, so I spent a lot of time and thought of many new ideas and I finally decided on drawing a cracked open arena with symbols of the capitol covered in black ash. Through this process, I leant how small things that the author may hide in a novel are not just decorations, but the fact that they can quietly but effectively teach us about power, choice and consequences. In addition, I got to realize that I am a learner who requires visuals and creative assignments to truly strive for depth in one specific area of a novel, since the design process for this visual piece pushed me to question my assumptions and to improve for better ideas.

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The central idea of this board game is to show the importance of choice in the book Unwind. Designing a board game and testing it to make it work helps me understand more and find a new way to show the theme of the book Unwind and show everyone that every choice in your life is important. The rules I designed, and the negative effect of every choice, brings out how people need to think before they are due or else there will be more harm. The most significant challenge I faced was the first few steps because I needed ideas to create a game based on Unwind, and I had to make the game make sense. After I started to have an idea of what kind of game I wanted to design, the whole process of creating the visual of the board and writing down the rules was much easier.

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The central idea of this game is surviving through crisis when facing an extreme condition, which for this game is tap-out. The format of a world building design doc helps me express the central idea by connecting what is in the book or the game to the real world. From how people choose to take action, to how people work together. Every decision influences it, no matter if it’s good or bad. One of the most significant challenges I faced was choosing the event card, I changed my event card more than four times due to the connection error. Every card I used in the first 3 tries could not connect with the theme, so I kept on making changes to fit the theme. I learned about my book that the choices Alyssa and the rest of the group made all had a purpose, even though it was bad but there is always a purpose or reason why they made the decision. From doing this game design, I learned that making a large project needs to have multiple steps that repeat. Every change makes it better; first draft should always be improved and not just submitted.

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My central idea was that the tiger shark tattoo transforms from a symbol of predatory violence on Roland to one of redemption and gentleness on Connor. The visual essay format helped me express this by placing each stage of the symbol journey with an analytical annotation, making the physical transfer of the tattoo impossible to ignore. The most significant challenge was finding a strong quote for the unwinding scene that implied the arm's harvest without stating it directly. I learned that Unwind conveys meaning through context and absence, and that tracking a single object across a novel forces deeper attention to patterns.

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By making the Graphic Novel choice, it allowed me to become more expressive. With words being used to story tell, it has limitations even with vivid imagery, but by doing a visual piece, it allowed me to tell the readers to understand the story to the fullest by using some elements like, the angle of the illustration, the colors used, the background of the illustrations, and what I decide to show the readers and what to not. While the Graphic Novel was beneficial for these things, it also brought me challenges. It was difficult for me to exactly show the facial expression, or the character’s body gesture, since my drawing skills aren’t good. Overall, throughout the process, I was able to learn more deeply about the visual elements that can help storytelling be more expressive.

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For my first poem, I used pages 2 and 3 from the novel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. I chose these pages because they are from the very beginning of the novel, where the world is first explained. This means that those pages are rich in description words for what kind of world Haymitch Abernathy lives in. The theme for this first poem is description of opression, and the grim world of Sunrise on the Reaping. My second poem uses pages 252 and 253, on the page where Haymitch sucessfully blows up the brain of the arena. These pages are full of Haymitch celebrating, and him stating his new hope. The theme is hope and determination, fighting back against the opressive powers. Finally for my third poem, I used pages 380 and 381. These pages are at the very end of the book, and desribe Haymitch reflecting back on his life, through all his heartbreak and sorrow. The theme is final resolution and reflection. My 3 poems work together because they go through all the main stages of Haymitch’s life in Sunrise on the Reaping, from his gloomy beginnings, making a change in the middle and changing his lack of hope, then in the end where he seems primarily defeated and depressed.

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Emma Li and Christina's Podcast

Reflection:

Our central idea is society collapsing due to people choosing survival over morality rather than external factors. Our chosen format is an interactive podcast. The podcast helped us express our central idea by interviewing characters from our book, our audience can better understand what is going on like its actually happening. The most significant challenge we faced is making different voices for the characters we had to interview. We learned about making new voices and creating a podcast.

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Yuxi: game design-designer's note and reflection

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My central idea was that the most important events in Matched — like Cassia's Sorting Ceremony, her second look at Ky's file, and the forbidden acts of affection/rebellion on the Hill — are turning points where Cassia (or the player) could either follow the Society's rules or rebel. I chose an RPG card format because each card could highlight one event's stakes and show how a decision leads to different consequences, almost like a "story encounter" in a game. The cards give a setting or part of the story and let the player react to each event. There are moments of pressure that might reveal character traits. The biggest challenge was finishing on time, but also finding the important events and writing them clearly (which I think I did not do well). I learned that I tend to focus on big plot moments, but creating these cards taught me to ask: what makes choices matter? The answer, to me, is the consequences and risks that could follow.

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The central idea of this podcast is to show that the society collapses because people choose survival over morality during extreme situations, not because of external factors like wars and laws. What I learned is that the truth for Dry and Unwind is simple: the real collapse happens when ordinary people like parents, teachers, neighbors start choosing themselves over what's right, again and again. Presenting this podcast as if we are really in the Dry and Unwind world was a new and interseting experience for me. Interviewing Risa(one of the main characters in Unwind) and Alyssa(one of the main characters in Dry) made the argument feel real. Like the audience was hearing it happen in real time. The biggest challenge for us was changing into different voices for the guests, but we eventually figured out.

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My central idea for this summative task was about the changes and evolution of the motif (The Lab) throughout the book. The Visual Essay format really helps me fully express the idea of The Lab because it allows me to write down the specific quotes alongside visuals and evidence to explain and prove my points more clearly. One of the biggest challenges I faced was creating and choosing the images that best fit the motif. This was difficult because each image had to fit not only one specific quote, but it also had to make the reader understand the whole stage and atmosphere of the story at that moment. Through this process, one important thing I learned is that in a novel, there can be multiple motifs existing at the same time, and a single motif can represent different stages of meaning simultaneously.

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My central idea was the different themes and emotions that the main character in my book embodied throughout her progression throughout her character arc. Blackout poetry allowed me to express this idea through a combination of words and visuals. It helped me turn my ideas into poems and use drawings to strengthen my message. The most challenging part of this assessment was selecting pages from my book to use for the poem. With most pages in the book, it was difficult for me to find words scattered across the page that could be stringed together to express the themes and feelings that I was aiming for.  Throughout this process, I learned that blackout poetry can provoke deeper thinking about themes and word choice. I also learned that examining text from different perspectives can help me understand the themes and messages of a book better.

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LUCAS HILL: Feedcast (podcast about the book FEED) and reflection

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LUCAS HILL: Feedcast (podcast about the book FEED) and reflection

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When looking back at the book I now see how the corrosive nature of the Feed is sadly also a part of our day-to-day life and how when you are too engaged with technology you become numb and rely on it just to outlast others. With the podcast I was able to show, with sounds, attitudes and different voices, how the Feed is bad and how gross the habits you get from it are, which helped me express my central idea in a way that felt vivid and realistic. And while the project was fun it was not a yellow brick road, it was more of a bumpy hike with no trail, so kind of like there was a destination but no path to it, and getting real-life evidence was what I would say was the hardest part since as time goes on people become less conscientious of what we are doing with our online life. Through this experience I learned to look more closely at how technology affects people, to think more carefully about the choices I make online, and to see that using creative formats like a podcast can make my ideas more powerful as a learner and as a writer.

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JUNGGEUN RYOO: Feedcast (podcast about the book FEED) and reflection

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JUNGGEUN RYOO: Feedcast (podcast about the book FEED) and reflection

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When I think about the project Lucas and I made together, I could now see that our central idea was that the Feed's novel had a very dangerous system and we connected that to our world. The format helped us explain this more clearly because Lucas and I are both great speakers but not in the aspects of the other project choices. One of the most significant challenges we faced while recording this was writing the script. Writing a dialogue script for nine minutes and eighteen seconds. Personally, I have learned that being online for too long is bad because that was our main claim.

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My central idea for this graphic novel is that knowing the truth about a corrupt system forces you to choose between blind loyalty and active rebellion, even if that means becoming someone you no longer recognize. This graphic novel expands a short moment in Legend where June shifts from blind loyalty to knowing the truth. m A graphic novel expresses this change by amplifying the invisible. A novel can only describe June's changing mind with words, but a graphic novel controls time, space, and visibility through visuals and panel sizes. I can show her loyal posture in one panel, the truth entering her eyes in the next, and her unrecognizable reflection in the third, all on the same page. Color shifts, panel shapes, and sizes make an internal psychological burst into something visual and clear. The most significant challenge was translating a purely internal moment into visual storytelling with small design details and very little text. What I learned about the novel: That one short scene is actually five smaller details crammed into a few pages. Expanding it meant finding each crack separately. June doesn't flip like a switch. First she's confused. Then surprised. And then angry. Then she moves (action). Small details matter because they are the shift. Without them, the reader only sees before and after. With them, they feel the messy in between. What I learned about craft: Panel sizes matter a lot. A tiny, cramped panel makes readers pause and look closer. A big, stretched panel forces them to stop and feel the weight of the moment. What I learned about myself as a learner: I tend to overexplain. I want the reader to get it, but graphic novels don't work that way. Images are the most important part, so I had a hard time designing each panel and trusting the art to speak for itself.

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My central idea for this summative was how the meaning of the Plague shifted throughout the novel and what it can reveal. The Visual Essay allowed me to express my thoughts on the matter in the form of annotations and make connections within the events and what they reveal. The images can enhance the meaning of the text, creating a deeper, and fuller response. The most significant challenge I faced was deciding what to generate for the images. Each image not only has to represent what's happening in that moment, but also represent the situation on a deeper level, what it reveals. I learned that the most important motifs often never start out as important. Instead, they're usually small details that in some cases might serve other purposes such as world building. It's only later on in the novel that you start to realize it's a novel and what it's trying to convey. Motifs aren't there just to represent something, but also help develop the entire story.

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My central idea of this project is the warning of the feed that the author is trying to show, which is how people are losing there ability to think for themselves. I choose the collage because it can show this warning by putting something that happened in the story or what the feed does to the real world, where the feed is very similar to social media. I choose to put a CPU in one side representing the feed and a phone on the other side symbolizing that the feed is doing just like what the internet and other technologies are doing to human. Certain text are crossing the barrier to show the real word are more and more like what is happening in the book. The biggest challenge when doing the project is choosing what to put and where, I want the pictures to better show the theme, and I know the events happening in the book, but It took some time to real the real life example. Throughout the process, I learned the author changes parts of the society to show its consequence for the future, and how near we are with real life and the book. I did not know that there was a trend about people actually harming there children.

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People are currently losing their ability to think for themselves. Although people depending where to go, what to buy, and there speech on the internet are all signs showing this problem, the most severe part is that people is following trends without considering if it is right or wrong. In the story Feed written by M. T. Anderson, a warning had already been shown about this problem. In a party that Titus, the main character went to, Quendy got artificial lesions and the book wrote on page 192, “They got bigger and redder when she moved. “Do you like them?” She said, laughing. “I got it yesterday.” Moreover, the only reasons she got these is because stars in a TV show that they like have it because of environmental problems. As we know in our world, we know that these lesions are uncomfortable and is a problem that we will try to get rid of. However, the people in the world are doing something that is harming themselves so they could be like other people that they like. This problem is also happening in the real world. There was a trend on social media for cracking an egg on their child’s head, where sometimes their children will cry. According to The Washington Post, it states that, “By children, that’s experienced as humiliation. It’s experienced as a lack of trust.” As a parent, you should be protecting your own children, you would know regardless of the unobvious mental problems, that making you child cry is not the right thing to do if you think. Same as the novel, your own body and your child are both something that you should care for, however, because of what other people do, you are following them without considering if it is right or wrong, good or bad and harming what you should protect. The lesions are caused by environmental problem, and when the problem is spread, we should try to solve or protest. However, people are just following and being ignorant of the problem and taking it as a new trend. If that causes people to be ignorant and not trying to solve existing problem, then the original problem or worsen or new problem will emerge, this will also be same in our world. We have already seen part of the novel in our world, do not continue to make the novel come true.

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Reflection: My central idea for this assignment was bringing light to the fact that many ongoing issues, scandals, and horrifying things are being put away by our main media broadcasters. Technology has overtaken the world, and consequently, our source of knowledge now has the ability to be monitored and controlled by the ‘higher-ups’, which in turn brings speculation to the truthfulness and the omissions of some information from news reports. I decided on a detective-style collage, because I thought the visual part of it (connecting the dots with images and a main symbol) resembled the insights and ‘finding-outs’ of people online, when they finally realize there’s more to this world than what’s reported online. The most significant challenged I faced during this project was finding novel-related symbols, because my central idea wasn’t very symbol-based, more as a textual warning, hence why I wrote so much for the warning piece. From this project, and frankly from this whole unit, I learned, using the elements of dystopia, that there’s always an iceberg to controlled/controversial topics. What the media reports, what’s being advertised to you, and what you see online in general has levels, and media/news outlets, especially ones that are government-funded, have a little more reporting to do.

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Reflection: The purpose of my visual essay is to show how the lesions in my book gradually change in meaning. From a symbol of identity to the standard of conformity. It is shown in my one pager if you look at it anti clockwise starting from the intro. I incorporated a lesion into each symbol drawn and my description talked about the meaning of my quotes. Through this project I saw the small details in my book that hint at the slowly showing dystopian elements and how conformity was caused through the title of a new trend.

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Reflection: My central idea was that Feed hides its most devastating critique not in big speeches, but in fragmented, overlooked moments. Like the spaces between guilt, consumer choice, and memory. The blackout poetry format helped me express this because its forcing me to find poems inside Anderson's existing words, without rearranging them, revealed how his sentences already contain their own warnings. The most significant challenge I faced was pacing. I initially wanted to keep too many words, which made my poems feel cluttered and robbed them of their power. I had to learn to trust that one perfect phrase could carry more weight than three mediocre lines. About the novel, I learned that Anderson's dystopia is not loud. Actually, its totally the other way, it's quiet, numb, and therefore more terrifying. About my craft, I learned that constraint breeds creativity, not limitation. And about myself as a learner, I discovered that I work best when I read a text multiple times slowly before making any marks. Patience, not speed, produced my best poems. This assessment taught me that sometimes the most powerful statement is what you choose to leave visible after blacking everything else out.

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Reflection: My main central idea is to show the development of the motif gun by illustrating how social change, humanity and character experience can change its meaning. Thus, the visual essay format is really helpful because I can present the key moments visually to the readers so they can better feel it. Also, I can arrange the sequence of the key moments so they can represent a deeper connection. I really once faced a significant challenge that I managed to find as much as 8 moments in my novel; however, I is really hard to connect the development in those images together as some of them are random and does not really have a large change in meaning. This reminds me as a learner to do precise and high-quality works and strong connection, but not to do as much work as I can and make weak arguments and connections.

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Our central idea was how the system of the Hunger Games and The Last Book in The Universe is dangerous, as well as exploring the themes of inequality, information control, and narrative control. The format i chose was the Podcast Episode, done in a crossover with Brandon Chou. My speaking skills are a bit stronger than my writing skills, and i thought a podcast would be fun because it allows me to add elements of humor, which would be harder to do in a essay or text. The most significant challenge was the actual recording part-we constantly had to edit the recording, even with minor mistakes, because we wanted to make it the best we could. Also, other students would distract us while we were recording so keeping our laughs down was also something difficult. It made me realize how even though the novels seem like pure sci fi, it is actually an amplification of issues that goes on in the real world, and could potentially be a foreshadow to what happens to us in the future.

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Authors Note

Throughout the book Feed, author M.T. Anderson implemented an internet slang writing style, which, though providing a unique way of storytelling, often makes descriptions shallower. However, using the format of blackout poetry, I aimed to reveal deeper and more beautiful language hidden among these seemingly plain words.

The first artwork of the moon reveals the abandonment of nature in the Feed world. The desaturated celestial bodies and a long “asteroid belt” of waste around the moon reflect the Feed world’s indifference towards pollution. I chose this specific page because it’s among the first pages and introduces readers to the world.

The second artwork, We Enter Calamity, captures the nature of everyone in the Feed world. “Broadcasting helplessly in a chorus” describes how people are conditioned since birth to follow the Feed’s recommendations and develop a strong dependency on it. The power this phrase holds is beyond what I expected from the original paragraphs. The two ellipses represent the individuals broadcasting through their Feed but failing to truly express themselves as waves get decreasingly apparent. An attached black & white (AI-generated) photograph visualizes the chaotic nature of the Feed world.

Lastly, Silent Stars creates an abstract visualization of Titus & Violet’s romance scene. The “gray and dead” plant branches are represented by the vertical lines, which also open up to symbolize lesions—a significant motif for conformity—in which eyes stare directly at the main characters, reminding viewers of the critical privacy situation that feeds networks put people in.

Together, these three artworks provide an overview of the natural environment and societal situation and present a significant scene of the novel.

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This is the script made by Brandon and I. The actual recording along with the reflection is already submitted.

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Throughout my experience from completing this assessment, my central idea was using

different colors and elements to cover the rest of the text. As an example, I used red to

cover the words for my survival poem, because red symbolizes how the water is secretly

becoming further from the citizens, just like fire devouring the water resources. Therefore, these different colors helped me better express my interpretation towards the book and the

themes. The most significant challenge that I faced would probably be choosing the most

accurate words for my poem, because I really wanted to express what I interpret from the

book and what the author might possibly be trying to reveal. As I faced multiple challenges,

I also learned more about the hidden words in my novel and how my word choices really

show my own interpretation even if it isn’t what the author is really trying to show.

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The central idea I had was that natural crises expose the worst in human nature when compassion and cooperation aren't valued. The real drought in Dry is not of water but of humanity. The graphic novel format helps me express this because visual elements — like Alyssa's thought bubbles and facial expressions — allowed me to show her inner transformation rather than straight-forwardly telling it. The biggest challenge I faced was connecting the quote smoothly into my paragraph without making it seem unrelated or forced. I solved this by rereading the scene to find the moment where the quote best matches the expression shift. In the end, I learned that kindness often exists only when there is enough to go around. Like Alyssa, I learned that people are often not who they seem during a crisis.

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My central idea was that the motif of human behaviour under pressure in Dry develops as the “Tap-Out” worsens, showing how people change when the social structures they rely on begin to collapse. I chose a visual essay because it allowed me to show this progression through both images and analysis, making the development of the motif easier to see. The most significant challenge was finding evidence that represented major shifts throughout the entire novel rather than several similar examples from one section. Through this process, I learned that strong literary analysis is not just about collecting quotes, but more about tracing patterns and changes throughout time. I also realized that Dry presents a more complex view of human nature than I initially percieved. Rather than simply stating that pressure reveals character, the novel suggests that pressure can both transform and expose people's true qualities, bringing out actions and thoughts they may not have known they possessed. This project helped me become a more thoughtful reader by encouraging me to look beyond individual events and focus on how ideas develop across an entire text.

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Daniel xu Block E G8 ELA Final Dystopian Assignment

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Reflection: This assessment helped me understand Citra's character and the message of Scythe better. My central idea was that Citra becomes a symbol of hope and transformation at the end of the story, and the graphic novel format helped me show that through visuals and emotion instead of just words. The hardest part was choosing what to include in only a few panels while still keeping the scene powerful. I learned that a good adaptation does not need every detail - it just needs the most important ones. I also learned that Citra's ending is crucial because it shows how someone can use their change of power to mend a corrupted system.

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Reflection: This assessment helped me understand Citra's character and the message of Scythe better. My central idea was that Citra becomes a symbol of hope and transformation at the end of the story, and the graphic novel format helped me show that through visuals and emotion instead of just words. The hardest part was choosing what to include in only a few panels while still keeping the scene powerful. I learned that a good adaptation does not need every detail - it just needs the most important ones. I also learned that Citra's ending is crucial because it shows how someone can use their change of power to mend a corrupted system.

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Reflection: Completing this assessment challenged me to merge global evidence, literary analysis, and personal conviction into a unified argument about the urgent need for climate action. My central idea was that world leaders’ ongoing neglect of the climate crisis—despite mounting evidence and repeated warnings—poses catastrophic risks not only to the environment but to society as a whole. Writing an Op-Ed allowed me to express this idea forcefully and directly, blending facts, real-world disasters, and the haunting parallels found in dystopian fiction like Dry. The format pushed me to balance emotional appeal with clear reasoning, showing how policy failures and apathy have real, devastating consequences for ordinary people. The greatest challenge I faced was synthesizing complex, global issues with the themes of the novel while maintaining a persuasive, accessible voice. I learned that literature can be a powerful lens for understanding and communicating real-world problems, making abstract threats tangible and urgent. As a writer and learner, I discovered the importance of using narrative and evidence together to make my argument resonate. This process deepened my appreciation for the responsibility we have—not just as individuals, but as members of a global community—to demand meaningful action before today’s warnings become tomorrow’s tragedies.

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After rereading my article, I realize how strongly I connect government responsibility with environmental crises. I wanted to show that inaction can be as damaging as direct harm, and using the novel Dry helped ground my claims in a realistic scenario, making the drought issue feel immediate.

I’m proud of how I linked government delays to the loss of humanity, like when I mentioned people turning into “water zombies.” The Stephen King quote about monsters inside us also ties the external crisis to internal struggles.

However, I notice areas to improve. The second page has typos and run-on sentences that distract from my message. I need to proofread more carefully and break down complex ideas. The political example about desalination plants is relevant, but the quote is messy and needs clearer citation and smoother integration.

Overall, I’m satisfied with the passion and structure of this piece. I successfully connected fiction and reality to argue that government inaction worsens drought crises. With cleaner editing, this could be a stronger persuasive essay. Writing this reminded me that small citizen actions, like monitoring government programs and saving water, truly matter.

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My central idea of this is that bodily control can be easily taken away by higher power. I used this assignment, in my collage I used juxtaposition by placing the Matched images on the right while the real world images on the left, aligned with each image that I wanted to juxtapose in order for the warning to be shown without needing explanation. The most significant challenge I faced was choosing which moments and sources to use, because there were many great examples, both in the book and the real world. I learned even more about my novel as researching real world examples showed me what the author was trying to convey.

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The central idea is when a huge shift (the crack) in Cassia's character as she goes from

previously just accepting the Society’s rules to realizing her own voice and individuality.

She also represents the ingenuity and perseverance of the oppressed According to Ky he is

a mythical figure amongst the According to Ky he is a mythical figure amongst the people of

the outer provinces who once outsmarted people of the outer provinces who once

outsmarted an official by turning their weapons against them. And mean, while Cassia

becomes closer to Ky and continues to break society’s rules. She

will probably choose Ky over Xander and face serious

consequences from society. Being able to write represents forbidden self-expression,

especially because the Society burned almost all words except the Hundred Poems. Also

appealing small acts of rebellion through the story plots. I learned from this

novel that expresses Society's control of hope and freedom that small moments can have

a powerful impact on a story. And I learned from my craft, which is a graphic novel to

communicate my ideas, was more interesting than simply writing a paragraph because it

allowed me to visualize things. I was able to express the Society's control of the first panel

with the burning paper, the hope and freedom with Cassia's name glowing in the dark

starry sky, and finally, Cassia's internal power.

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Reflection: The hardest part was making all the cards by hand. My game shows the novel's theme because helping people makes you get less advantage, just like in the book. If I had more time, I would add random Gamemaker events like fire or floods. Playtesting help me fix the Ally rules and make the game shorter. I am kind ofproud of this project because I spent a lot of time planning it, and craft it, and I'm really into it.