Summary Of Among The Hidden

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a science fiction novel. The novel is about a boy named Luke Garner who lives in a futuristic world where the Government has supreme control over everyone's lives. There is also Population Law in place in which tells everyone in the country that they are only allowed two children. Luke, who is an illegal third child, spends most of his days at home with his mom protected by the woods around his house. Then it all gets torn down to build houses for the Barons, or super rich people. After spending a lot of time locked in his room, Luke discovers that one of the new houses has a secret—a secret third child, just like him. One day he builds up enough courage and sneaks over to the Baron's house. In

Eventually Jen and Luke become close friends and she shows him how the Government completely controls the people, telling them how many kids they can have, what land they can own, what they can do with that land, and basically every other tiny detail about their lives. The night of the rally, Luke decides not to go. Jen and supposedly thousands of other third children went to that rally, but days after it when Luke didn’t hear anything about it, he started to worry. Luke went over Jen’s house one more time and found her dad who told him that only 40 children showed up and they were all shot dead. Mr. Talbot turns out to be helpful and tells Luke that his only option is getting a fake I.D. It only takes him a minute to make the decision, and Luke Garner becomes Lee

As many problems our country has, food shortages aren’t one of them. No one really thinks about if a famine were to occur, would our free government stay, or if it be overthrown. Furthermore, in the novel it says that guns were illegal and so was junk food, although those who work for the Population Police, wich are high ranked government officials, do most likely have those things. Barons, or richer people, are more privileged in the totalitarian country. We never know how our country would react to something such as a