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A review by bluejaybooks
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
It's interesting to read this book because it's political ideas seem so much different than those I see often encouraged in dystopian novels today. It advocates working for change from within the system
These are ideas that just about every dystopian novel I've read published in the last ten to twenty years seems to discourage. But the novel has a point that advocating for change can be dangerous and in totalitarian regimes bad things can happen to those who do.
And, yet, the novel still encourages advocating for change, just with consideration to one's own safety.
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and the protagonist not going to a rally is portrayed as being a smart choice on his part because if he'd gone, he would have been killed.These are ideas that just about every dystopian novel I've read published in the last ten to twenty years seems to discourage. But the novel has a point that advocating for change can be dangerous and in totalitarian regimes bad things can happen to those who do.
And, yet, the novel still encourages advocating for change, just with consideration to one's own safety.