https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y You know it's dystopian if the people are hurting en-us 2021-03-02 22:43:18 UTC 2026-03-21 20:53:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f480.png levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261076211 "When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts."]]> 2021-03-02 22:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261076211 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261076791 "I remembered things from growin' up, where I lived, that sort of stuff. And if God himself came down right now and told me I could go back home...If it was real, Greenie, I swear I'd go shack up with the Grievers before goin' back."]]> 2021-03-02 22:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261076791 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261077033 Not to kill us, though killing us - or most of us - is necessary. They're like a landlord who kicks out a deadbeat renter so he can get the house cleaned up for the new tenant; I think this has always been about getting the place ready.]]> 2021-03-02 22:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261077033 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261086685 "I can't win. Prim must know that in her heart. The competition will be far beyond my abilities. Kids from wealthier districts, where winning is a huge honor, who've been trained their whole lives for this. Boys who are two to three times my size. Girls who know twenty different ways to kill you with a knife. Oh, there'll be people like me, too. People to weed out before the real fun begins."]]> 2021-03-02 22:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261086685 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261090281 "Confusion, Curiosity. Panic. Fear. But laced through it all was the dark feeling of utter hopelessness, like the world had ended for him, had been wiped from his memory and replaced with something awful."]]> 2021-03-02 22:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261090281 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261104157 "I turned to my father and said, "We should nuke 'em."]]> 2021-03-02 22:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261104157 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261104764 "Listen up. You’re in trouble. Word is the Capitol’s furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can’t stand is being laughed at and they’re the joke of Panem."]]> 2021-03-02 22:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261104764 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261161356 "Could it be that the very name they'd used for their organization had been one of the Variables from the beginning? A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good?"]]> 2021-03-02 23:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261161356 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261167692 "The old Cassie would have never done that. Already the Others were changing me into someone different, but I wanted to pretend that nothing had changed, especially me."]]> 2021-03-02 23:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261167692 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261176754 "It wasn't the aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans."]]> 2021-03-02 23:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261176754 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261178823 "It was slow-going at first, but I was determined to feed us. I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and you’re dead. I checked and double-checked the plants I harvested with my father’s pictures. I kept us alive."]]> 2021-03-02 23:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261178823 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261179489 "Do you think we enjoy all this? You think we enjoy watching you suffer?"]]> 2021-03-02 23:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261179489 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261182297 These dystopian novels are usually set in a certain time period where teenagers are the ones portrayed as the main character. When you think about it, no one would want to read a book about a kid when it comes to really mature literature. Older adults can read them because they see a reflection of who they could have been or sees themselves.]]> 2021-03-02 23:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261182297 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261184895 The promise of escape from this reality to a different one is actually easy to do when the house environment isn't exactly the best. It doesn't even have to involve socioeconomic variables, only the creativity of the brain and what it seeks.]]> 2021-03-02 23:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261184895 levensonpolicarpio https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261186616 When one person likes it and shares it to others who are like minded, it's easy to get caught up with the trend of reading a dystopian novel. Never having experienced what the characters experienced makes it alluring for readers to want to be in that world too. They don't know what it is like so there is naturally a fascination with the unknown.]]> 2021-03-02 23:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/levensonpolicarpio/49qhnmakdwqyho9y/wish/1261186616