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Examples Of Dystopia By Ellie Wiesel

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Dystopia. Dys·to·pi·a /disˈtōpēə/ noun An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. A place where everything and everyone, have gone mad. A dystopian society is a society that basically means everyone has revolted against their original thought of a utopian society to destroy the thought of relaxation to certain minds… only certain minds. Today’s dystopian society consists of riots, arguments, shaming for religion, for race, for the way someone may walk, and for the way someone may talk. Overtime, our world has formed into a dystopian society. One of the biggest ways a utopian societies transformed into a dystopian society, was during the Holocaust. Even though …show more content…

Ellie was a young boy who went through pain, sorrow, death, and drainage of all happiness in his younger years. In this novel, Ellie and many other Jews, are treated as garbage and pushed around as if they were ragdolls. Even though Ellie may have looked at the face of death right in front of his, today’s day, many people are shamed for what they may believe in and for that, they are also treated as garbage. The reason? To create a Utopian society where everyone is the same and there is no one who is imperfect. A comparison is a pencil. A pencil, when brand new is sharpened, pointed, and writes flawlessly. Once it has been used for a while the tip starts to dull or it breaks. During the holocaust, people were either the sharpened pencil or the dull pencil. Instead of being re-sharpened, they were thrown out. “That’s it, we’ve used you all up and we really don’t need you anymore. Next!” explained in the mouths of people who are …show more content…

One person, took control and took the lives of millions of innocent people all because they were different. Today’s day, most people are beat down for being different. Even though being different is an amazing gift given to you, you are shamed for it because of jealously, anger, and or just to make you change yourself. Today’s day, people in other countries are still killed for being different. Ellie explained that from babies to adults were shot and thrown into pits of fire just so that one person who were being followed by many others could get their utopian society. During this horrendous period, no one had the guts to speak up and stop. “On the way, we saw some German girls. The guards began to tease them. … They all were laughing, joking, and passing love notes to one another. At least, during all that time, we endured neither shouting nor blows.” Quoted in Night. As the slaved walked by the German girls were acting like nothing was happening. Just like today’s dystopian society. As people are being pushed down, we stand around, shut ourselves out from reality, and act like nothing

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