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Suicide In Suzanne Young's The Program

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If suicide is such a big epidemic then why do is it we give our kids to complete strangers when they are going through this rough time? Suicide is one of the most talked about subjects but it is ignored when people are showing signs of suicide.In The Program Suzanne Young uses physical, cultural, and geographical surroundings Sloane goes through to shape the psychological and moral traits to change the mindset the society has on suicide.
Young uses physical surroundings in the act of changing how the society looks on suicide, Sloane fights to break the only way the society thinks about the outbreak with The Program. Early in the story, Young introduces Slone as a girl that doesn’t believe that it’s the right way to deal with the suicide rates. She thinks that the …show more content…

Introduced in the story children from a young age know that depression and suicide aren't things they want to be involved with, if so there will be consequences to the actions in which are taken. For example, the handlers shape how they can tell if he or she is acting if they are on the verge of committing suicide or depression. Slone says, "As I move my wrist hurts and I remember how I cut myself in my room before they took me."(112). As she is being taken away, she knows she has broken her culture. At this moment she is going in it, and will find a way of breaking The Program and changing the culture of her society. In the novel anthem, the society built with culture is how guys and girls never date or know what love is, the society just makes them mate and multiply. When Equality and the golden one breaks their culture, they decide that the society is not a society they need to be in. So, they run away from their society and make their own. He states, "With the world below me and the sun above me I shall live my own truth."(100). This shows also that the society's created are lived on a lie to break your society and find

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