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__**The Fantastic 5**__ __**POSTS**__ __**Julia#1**__ In the giver by Lois Lowry, it starts off as more of a utopian society. There are houses, school and other things similar to our community. In this community there is no war, pain or hunger. As the book continues on you see that it is more dystopian. Everything is controlled; they don’t get to decide anything for themselves. When the kids turn twelve they are observed and a job is chosen for them. This happens every year in December. You also don’t get to choose your spouse, they pick one for you. You are only allowed two children, one boy and one girl. Their life is with out love, but because they have never experienced it, they don’t know what they are missing out on. When people don’t follow the rules they are “released” from the community. __**Mckay#2**__ __** Stacey#3 **__

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I am reading //City of Ember// by Jeanne Duprau. It is based in a small run down city in the future that is falling apart. The city is the only light surrounded by darkness. It seem that this city is the only one left on the universe. The society is run by the Mayor it has been since the Builders built the city. The Mayor makes all the choices for the city as a whole, but he gets all his knowledge from a book called //The book of the City of Ember.// One of the things that the Mayor is in charge of is the distributing of the supplies. Because of the limited supplies that the city has there is a great fear of the lights going out and never coming back on. Fear is the greatest emotion in the small city because of the low supplies of the things that they need. There is still a small bit of hope instilled in the hearts of all the people. They are hoping that they will be able to find another city and they will be able to survive and not be lost in darkness forever. ====== __ Aubrey#4 __ I am reading The Giver by, Lois Lowry. Its written from an eleven year old boy's point of view, and living in a futuristic society. The main place where this book takes place is in their community. The government has taken away all hatred, pain, fear, and war. The atmosphere is very sad, they dont have much choice and cant even think of their own things, and say what they think. Also, there is hardly any competition, everybody looks mostly the same, and they cant just do something better than they usually do. There is no comfortable way to mention or discuss someones success of some thing, without breaking the rule about bragging. I am reading caching fire. It does not say a certain county or state but it takes place way in the future. The main places in this story are the capitol, the arena and the districts the society is where they all live in separate districts there are 12 of them there use to be 13, each one is different. They enter there names in the drawing for the games, the games are where they take a boy and girl from each district and they have to fight to the death. If you win you will be rewarded. The mood in the story is sad and frightened.
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Group setting The five books all have similarities and differences, but sometimes only one or two of the books are similar. //Hungar games// and //The City of Ember// are both based on survival, where as in //Catching Fire// it is more based on the political details of the government. //The Giver// is also different because it is focusing finding yourself, and who you should be. The five books are also similar because they all have some form of government, that controls the decisions and laws of the city, community, or district. These are a few things that are similar and different between these five books.

The setting and your surroundings effect how people act and live. In the five books the setting effects the characters because it changes how they live or act. In //Catching fire// they bring in pacemakers to in force the laws and it changes how people act if they weren’t around. Or how in //Hunger games// they are fighting for there lives and it makes them depend on each other more and fight more. Also in the //City of Ember// they live under ground and do not know it. So the two main charters go looking for new stuff to save there town. Or //the Giver// where they are trying to find self worth and who they are. Your surroundings affect how you are going to react to a situation and what you are going to do when faced with a problem.

The advances in technology are all pretty much the same in all five books. They all live in seperate houses and live with their own families. The only thing that is different about their living environments is what their "town" is called. In //The Giver// they live in communities, where in //Catching Fire// and //Hungar Games// they live in districts, //City of Ember// is placed in a city. Besides from that their advances are all pretty much the same.