Characters
The mean girl character from Ponies.
Who is TopGirl?
When AI, computers, smart homes take control over humans and/or a society.
What is the control of technology?
The 3 characteristics that are always found in dystopian literature
What are control, fear, and conformity?
The theme from this story teaches us that “there is more to life than being glued to your TV.”
What is the theme of The Pedestrian?
The author of “The Pedestrian” and “The Veldt”
Who is Ray Bradbury?
The walking man who walks every night while observing people in their “tomb-like” homes.
Who is Leonard Mead?
When a business gets hungry for power and devises a sinister plot to take control.
What is the corporate control?
What is a perfect place, highly desirable (ex. Garden of Eden, or the StarTrek Voyager)
The items cut off of ponies.
What are the horn, the wings, and the voice?
Roughly the year Ray Bradbury wrote his futuristic stories that hard self-driving cars, homes that do everything for you, and technology that constantly entertains people.
What is 1951?
The lady who came late to the lottery, but arrived at an early death!
Who is Tessie?
Rules, laws, and regulations control people and keep them in a maze!
What is the control of bureaucracy?
This is a futuristic society, it appears to be utopian at first, but things start going awry (go wrong) (ex. Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver)
What is a dystopian society?
The story when the whole community follows a tradition of killing one person by picking a chosen one.
What is "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson?
Oddly enough, were talking about Ring (the doorbell camera) in class being an example of this type of control.
What is surveillance?
The kids who turned their smart house technology into something deadly by using their imaginations!
Who are Wendy & Peter?
A shared common thought (or a forced brainwashed thought) controls the actions of a society.
What is the control of religion or philosophy?
Factor in a dystopian society - When the majority is controlled by a superior headship, the past is erased, and there is social and economic division.
What is control?
The story where the whole house comforts, helps, serves, and we also find out, controls a family.
This female author also wrote creepy, scary novels (Initials SJ)
Who is Shirley Jackson?
The name of the pony that was killed and her owner that took her to the “cutting out party”.
Who are Sunny & Barbara?
What is the control of technology?
This is the loss of individuality.
What is conformity?
In the Veldt, we learn this theme. "There are dangers in ________ technology."
What is "There is danger in overusing technology"?