Big Brother Is Watching You...Read Dystopian Novels
"Wake up citizen , it's time for your state mandated placement test" boomed the speaker in the corner of my government regulated living quarters. It was a quaint little room, or at least that's how the Government described it in their propaganda. In all reality, my room was more of a storage closet with a cot than anything else. I rose from my government provided rectangle and made for the door. One of the perks of a totalitarian government is not having to worry about picking out an outfit for the day. Instead, all citizens were given a red jumper to wear. "The color of freedom," they had claimed. More like the color of blood if you ask me… Photo: Icanvas.com Oppressive, borderline totalitarian governments, degraded quality of life, and one resistant soul to save the world; these are the staples of any good dystopian novel. When the reader cracks open a dystopian novel for the first time, they can expect to be grabbed and immediately pulled in. T...