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Summary: Dark Energy By Robison Wells

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In a dystopian novel called “ Dark Energy” Robison wells uses paradox and irony to explain the way a fantasy can be or something inhuman. Moreover, equality is a way of showing something that we do not struggle with today but, did in the past. For example , in (ch.13) “Reminding me of what I said to Suski about humans hating humans” shows that inequality is possible in our world but hasn’t happened in a while. Although, it describes horror towards a way humans do not wish to live. In this book, the aliens had to go to school with the humans, and at first they were not liked and people would look at them different, that can also be an issue in our world today with something called “bullying” that many kids go through at a point in life. In fact, in (Ch.15) they said “ Humans are not always kind. …show more content…

On (pg.183) “ I wonder what they’ll do about the guides citizenship’ they landed in America does that make them American” means that just because they are from another planet doesn’t mean we can’t all get along and treat each other the same. Wells also, uses a way to convey a message on dystopian literature by using violence and how the alien ship had crashed and killed humans, which is a life of a tragedy we don’t want to see happen. Another way to describe the type of way these books are written is by using imagination or more of what comes into your mind. For example, in (Pg.205)” They were proud to die, they killed themselves to give the rest of us freedoom” states that violence was used for the life of another so one sacrificed itself. The use of irony in this book describes that there are many issues out there and still are today. As a matter of fact, an example would be (ch.18)” Why do we have

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