The future is full of chaos, as countless philosophies are being rejected in favor of unstable theories. Specifically, there is a literary shift from linearity and order to randomness and fragmentation. Consequently, postmodernist writers understand that their works are subject to interpretation; furthermore, the flexibility of understanding in texts is the basis for the development of innovative ideas in society. Accordingly, different predictions on what will occur throughout the novel are the ideals of postmodernist literature. Moreover, one way an author can write in a nonlinear, flexible fashion is to write with a component of mystery. Ultimately, the central purpose of an author’s novel is to engross the reader, by writing in a creative …show more content…
As stated by Jean-François Lyotard, “postmodernity, with its heterogeneous interests and worldviews, allows previously oppressed or marginalized groups to make claims upon justice, and upon a position of centrality, even in the absence of majority consensus concerning such claims”. Fittingly, Don't Get Caught is about a group of teenagers with minimal social influence trying to humiliate the "social elite" through pranks. In fact, the synopsis of the book is that there exists an underground club known as the Chaos Club that plays pranks on the school, and nobody can figure out the leader of the club is or who the members are. Therefore, another group of teenagers, embarrassed by the Chaos Club, seek revenge by being absolutely determined to discover the members of the Chaos Club. As a result, Max is carefully monitored for any suspicious actions. Consequently, in Don't get Caught, Max gets blamed for events that he did not cause, and he wants to vindicate himself from the false accusations by authority. Appropriately, postmodernists use their intellect to protest traditional establishment and authority, both religious secular, because postmodernists believe that traditional authority is corrupt and fake …show more content…
The “pranks war” refers to the aspiration to catch the Chaos Club in the act of pulling their pranks, and thus extinguishing the Chaos club forever. When the Chaos club humiliates one of the characters, Malone, she appropriately exclaims, “You know what pisses me off? Knowing the Chao Club is probably down there laughing at us” (Dinan 43). Jameson defines postmodernism as “‘the cultural logic of late capitalism," for him an inherently unjust formation” (Geyh). Unjustly, the Chaos Club capitalizes on the idea that they are never caught, and therefore humiliate students and staff in order to stay powerful. The humiliated teenagers are attempting to capitalize on the act of pulling off pranks that are better than that of the Chaos Club, which would show the Chaos Club that the humiliated teenagers are not to be messed with. Postmodernism is all about people starting movements in the world, and rebelling against the social elite is one type of