https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm Sam Middlebrooks and Dante Fernandes en-us 2023-10-12 20:43:43 UTC 2023-10-14 00:37:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f600.png dfernandes100_ https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744224083 "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal"

This sentence perfectly sets the tone for the rest of the story because it immediately introduces us to this dystopian world in which the story takes place. ", and everybody was finally equal" is a wonderful way to instantly hook the reader and make them ponder what our world would be like if everybody was truly equal, all before the story is set into motion. ]]> 2023-10-12 20:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744224083 skmiddlebrooks100_ https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744226150 "Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand."

Harrison breaks into the stage on which the ballerinas were putting on a performance for the film studio and everyone can see him in all of his glory as he announces his presence. He tells them of his dream of dominating their world, and is faced with little opposition.]]> 2023-10-12 20:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744226150 skmiddlebrooks100_ https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744228410 " 'I forget,' she said, 'Something real sad on television.' . . . 'It's all kind of mixed up in my mind' . . ."

After Harrison is shot, the television is shut off by the government. George returns to see Hazel crying, but because she forgot what had happened and how her son had been shot, she doesn't know why.]]> 2023-10-12 21:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744228410 dfernandes100_ https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744229538 "It was then that Diana Moon Clampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor."

This quote does a fantastic job of putting us inside this story and truly feeling the tension felt inside that theater. The Handicapper General shooting both Harrison and the ballerina shows how far this government based on equality is willing to go to stay equal.]]> 2023-10-12 21:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/skmiddlebrooks100_/siyww4mhzqxs20vm/wish/2744229538