In society at times we feel differences among the humans and animals. The Utopian world tends to prove that not all things or some things tend to not exist. The contrast between utopia and dystopia is where in utopia you hope for the better to come and in dystopia you worry about the negative impacts on life and if your life tends to become turned into a disaster. But in my opinion Leong fails to criticise the differences of dystopia and eutopia. When viewing Eutopia it would be considered a place of having somewhere that does not exist which is considered to be Iceland. Dogs I believe can also have an greater aspect due to the ecotopian world, depending where their living environment would be considered in being either in a home or a dog …show more content…
“How could it live out here?” Lisa’s arm swept the horizon. “There’s nothing to live on. It’s got to be modified.” She studied it closely, then glanced at Jaak. “Are you sure nothing’s coming in on the perimeter? This isn’t some kind of decoy?”(Bacigalupi)The dystopian world tends to feel as if animals should not be able to exist. The dog becomes a happiness for Jaak and his fellow mates but due to the fact that this creature tends to change their lives. In Sand and Slag however, the dog lives in the dystopian world due to the fact that he has later become isolated and desperate in need of love and affection. The dog in the end after all gets put in the dystopian position and is stuck in barbed wires on the beach and getting injured. The reality shows that Lisa tends to have more feeling for the dog living in the etopia state while Jaak mainly thinks about the dystopian state of the dog getting roasted over the petrolium of the beaches thinking that they were better without the dog when the dog tended to be the animal that was there for there happiness. “Lisa roasted the dog on a spit, over burning plastics and petroleum skimmed from the ocean. It tasted okay, but in the end it was hard to understand the big deal...Without the dog, we could really enjoy the