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GROUP SETTING In all of these books there is always something or someone in complete control. There are those that are accepting of how things are and how they are enforced, but then there are many others who want to rise against and defy the rulers that have been using their power unjustly. People's lives aren't taken for consideration and they are often taken for granted; creating a mood of "survival", as we follow the main characters in a race against death. Though each character is in a different situstion they all have to make some desperate decisions to survive. One may only want to escape and another may need to kill in order to live. The thing is that each character's government has put them in a situation where nobody can be trusted and they basically stand alone. The choice of who to trust and who to use is important too. When it comes to survival, each main character has to have some form of strategy. (LD)

1 The book U//nwind// takes place in the future, about three generations in the future. There are no hover cars, but they did find a way to make electricity move without wires and iPods are considered antiques. They have had two civil wars over abortion. One side fights over the right of choice and the other side for life.To resolve this conflict they came up with Unwinding which is where children from the ages of 13-17 can have all their body parts donated to society. The Three main characters are all to be unwound and travel all over the US to escape. Each of the three characters focus on the one thing that matters when being hunted: survival. (Lisa Davies)

2 //The Maze Runner// doesnt say exactly the time it takes place but im guessing somewhere in the future. Most of the book takes place in the glades, which is around 10 football fields long and 10 football fields wide. Its serounded by huge walls that are hunreds of feet tall and in the middle of each wall is a door that stays open during the day and closes at night. outside the 4 doors is a maze. they havent found really anything in the maze besides monsters that are half robot half animal, and mostly come out during the night. in the glade there is a farm a house and other small buildings they use. in the center there is a elevotor that brings things up to them they cant figure out where it leads all they know is somtimes itll bring supplies and somtimes itll just bring a new person. (Briggs Fulton) ( Briggs- Who lives there? Just teen boys, right? How do they manage themselves and keep order? Who's in charge? ~Mrs. P )

Lauren Lee- //The Hunger Games// The book //Hunger Games// takes place somewhere in the future, after modern day society has fallen and a new society has risen in North America. This society is a collection of 12 (once 13) districts, scattered across North America, that are controlled by The Capitol. The Capitol is very unfair towards the districts, and the one time when they tried to rise up against The Capitol, they were almost immediately defeated, and as a warning to the rest of the districts, district 13 was completely demolished. As a yearly reminder of how much power The Capitol has over the districts, the remaining 12 are forced to each randomly pick 2 kids inbetween the ages of 12 to 18 and send them to participate in The Hunger Games, which is where all 24 contestants are to fight to the death in some randomly chosen arena that is controlled by The Gamers, who are essentially controlled by The Capitol. The book mainly revolves around two 16 year olds from district 12: Katniss, who volunteered because her 12 year old sister was chosen, and Peeta, who just had a stroke of bad luck. Survival is what each character is focused on, but here's the catch: there can only be one winner of the games.

4. Benson Porter - The Alliance The book first takes place in a small village, eighteen years after Termination, which is when most of society was destroyed by a nuclear war. Not long after the book starts, the citizens of this small village are located by a group of people that had started a much larger society. After a small fight, the villagers are forced to live in this new society. This new society is called The Alliance. The Alliance has four main cities and much more smaller cities. This book takes place in the main city, which is called Shalev. In The Alliance, everyone is implanted with a microchip in their brain. The microchip is a controlling device that gives the citizens a shock when they do something that isn’t considered appropriate, such as hurt someone, or get to angry. There is an outer wall around the city, and if any of the citizens try to escape, they are given the maximum punishment by the microchip in their head, which is usually death. This whole new society is run by a man who is called the Major, who put it all together with hopes of removing all war and crime.

5 __McKenna Peterson- The city of Ember__ In this book which is the first in the seirse. It's in this town where the sky is dark and it's never get light. the city has light bubles everywhere. You don't know what time peirod it is but i get the feeling that it takes place in the future. all they know is the city of Ember. the whole city is surrounded by dark and they don't have light that they could take with them. they don't know if there are other cities out there. They have a Mayor. they start working when they are 12 years old and they pick form a hat and that's their job for the next 3 years and then if they don't like it the can change. Most of it is in the city and then in the pipeworks which is where the sewged and water pipes are. And now in the city it is basicly die.