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How Does Hazel Create A Dystopian

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The brevity of humans’ attention span is clearly exemplified when, at the beginning of the story, Hazel, who had “tears on her cheeks” (1). Though she had been crying quite recently, as the tears were still evident, she had apparently forgotten about them, her attention now focused on the ballerinas on screen. Sadness is a strong emotion, and was strong enough to make her cry. In the world today, such a potent emotion is not easily forgotten. The fact that is so easily slipped her mind proves how rudimentary and primitive our minds become is this dystopian future. Our attention spans now are short, but we are at least able to retain some information. Hazel rapidly forgets everything, as Vonnegut stressed the short length of our attention spans
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