Literary Quote of the Day: A Word from Oingo Boingo

Nothing screams summer fun like a dystopian novel that involves characters getting metaphorically stomped on the face over and over and over and loving it in the end. That’s why we’re going with our third and final quote from 1984. Intro Music O’Brien explains to Winston what the future holds for citizens of Oceania. Just […]

Literary Quote of the Day: “War is Peace”

Let’s go back to back with everyone’s favorite dystopian novel, 1984 There are plenty of examples of irony in 1984 by George Orwell. The novel itself, on the surface a satire on negative Utopian novels, contains enough truth to frighten even the most diligent head-in-the-sand citizen. The novel’s hero is a middle-aged, out-of-shape, not-so-attractive, varicose […]

Dystopian Literature: The Giver Lesson Plans for Middle School (or High School)

It was almost December, and Mr. Jonas was beginning to be frightened. “No. Wrong word,” Mr Jonas thought. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified administrator had popped in to his classroom twice. If only he had really good Giver […]