In the book Lies, by Michael Grant, in a small California town, all of the adults have disappeared, and the city is in anarchy. The main character, Sam is a boy who managed to survive for a while and is the leader of Perdido beach, a part of the small town, and he has to worry about starvation and a series of mutations going through many people, and that all of the normal people are getting scared of what the mutations are doing.

Sam is a surfer, and the author seems to be poking fun at the stereotype of the carefree surfer. Sam is the opposite of the stereotype, after all of the horrors that everybody else is doing. All the food is running out, and it is very hard for them to keep their food in place, because there is constant thievery, and a group of people who are discriminating against the people who got powers from being mutant. All of the stereotypes are shown, but they are poked fun at. Sam is the most brave and antsy person, and Astrid the geek is one of the most powerful and respected people

This makes me think that the author wants you to think about what a stereotype really means to all of the people affected. It seems that every stereotype is shone as a little bit of an interpretation of the way that a horrible event affects and changes a person. John D. Rockefeller said," I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity". No matter who you are, the disaster will change you if it happens.

Ptolemy's gate

In the book, Ptolemy's gate by Jonathan Stroud, there are 3 main characters, not one like a normal book. The three characters are Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kathleen Jones, a.k.a Kitty. Nathaniel is a powerful young magician in the top ranks of an extremely corrupt government. Bartimaeus is a entity summoned by Nathaniel, who must follow his orders, but tries to rebel. Kitty is a person who was supposedly dead, and wanted by the government for treason. The author uses multiple personalities to make the book a more confusing and conflicting read.

In this book, the 2 young adults, Nathaniel and Kitty are treated like two completely different people, and, Nathaniel is treated like somebody incredibly out of his depth, and even his mentor, Jessica Whitwell claims that he is out of his depth. She said "I believe that my apprentice needs a little more help with managing situations and that this one may be out of his depth." The author is trying to show that no matter how powerful the kid is, he may still not be able to tackle the problems ahead.

Kitty is treated like a more better adult and she has less power over other people. She cares more about other peoples and is not given government positions. She herself set up a resistance that fought against all of the dictatorship that is called a equal government. However, she is treated with less dignity than all of the other people, and does not think that the magicians deserve all of this because of the fact that they are "defending" Britain.

Lord Anton said "Absolute power corrupts absolutely", and I think this story is a good example of it. Nathaniel is given high ranking positions and is callous and blind to his surroundings because of it. Kitty knows what is going on and aware of her surroundings, and she is treated as a lonely commoner because of the fact that she was not born in the government. She is trying to redo the french revolution, and Nathaniel is sitting back in his chair doing paperwork.

Deadlock

In the book Deadlock by Mark Walden, the main character, Otto, is trying to stop a plot to turn a bunch of young children into assassins, and to kill off all of the ones who are not strong and fast enough. 4 of Otto's friends were captured and sent to the facility to be trained, and Otto wants to free them. In this book, young adults are treated like they have dangerous potential, and money is not an issue. In this book, somehow, the characters seem to have enough money to do whatever they want.

In the book, it appears that all of the villains have the resources it takes to build massive bases, and yet it seems that money has no impact on the power of the people in all of the book. The cost in money of what they are doing does not seem to matter to any of the characters. A person in the book named Diabolus Darkdoom can afford to make incredibly advanced technology for a submarine, and the antagonists can afford to not only hack into it, but to waste their resources in destroying it. This makes me think that even though, money is such an issue in our life, it is still not as important as other things. I think that the author is trying to send us a message about how we should not let our lives be ruled by a hunger for more money, and that you can have enough of it.

In Deadlock, I feel that all of the characters do not have the ability to truly appreciate what they have and how they are using it. In the story, money is treated like it is completely unneeded and yet it is a huge part of all of our lives. I believe that Mark Walden is trying to show how much the amount of money we have should be appreciate

In the book "The Death Cure" by James Dashner, money is a huge issue in all of what is going on. Very few people who have a small amount of money got through the disease that was known as the Flare. The Flare is a disease that eats away at the victims brains and is a leading cause of insanity. The main characters name is Thomas. However, a few people are actually immune to this disease,including him, and people are discriminating against him because of the fact that he is immune and does not have to worry about the Flare. Because he has what most other people do not have, then he is different, and that will lead to discrimination.

In all cases of discrimination, there is a major difference between the two types of people. Because the people are different, other people feel uncomfortable around them and therefore start to bully them. There are many types of discrimination out in the world, and it is a really dreadful thing. The people who discriminate against other people are sometimes oblivious of what is happening to the people who they are discriminating. The book explains how even if the person is almost exactly the same, one small difference can make both people feel very uncomfortable.

When somebody is feeling inferior to the other people because he is different, it is generally because of the fact that the other people feel too uncomfortable about him. However, because of the fact that every single one of the most influential human beings has been different when he was growing up, it really should not matter to us that the other people are different. People care about other people, but it can be hard when they are all doing things you believe are weird.

The article "The Bravest Girl in the world" in the upfront magazine is about a young girl who spoke out for girls having the right to go to school and learn. The girl's name was Malala Yousafzai and she was openly speaking about girls in Pakistan gaining the right to go to school. The Taliban did not agree with her views and on her way to school, the Taliban shot her. They shot her because of her gender and her views on the subject. They purposefully discriminated her gender so they could stay superior, showing how people do not care that other types of people are equal to them and that they deserved to be treated equally.

Inequality is a terrible thing that people who are different should not have to suffer through. This story is one of the many that show how unfair it is, and the issues that every type of different or discriminated against person is having around the world. In my life, everyone goes to school, but that is not true about all of the people around the world and it should be like that. This story shows the horror of discrimination through Malala's eyes and from a fair lens of the way the shooting worked. You learn about how unfair things are in Pakistan, and how people are denied some of the most basic rights.

Discrimination starts when a group of people want to feel and be more powerful than a different type of person, and they start to try to achieve that goal. However, the group of people really aren't better than all of the other people who are out there, they are just trying to convince themselves of it. Frances Wright said "Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it." If we claim to give everybody liberty, then we should all be considered equal.

The book Watchmen by Alan Moore is about a group of people who used to be superheroes, and some people are taking out all of their friends and killing them. The main character named Rorschach who is very quiet and able to sneak up on anyone. Somebody is picking off superheroes and very few people are actually taking this seriously. One of the main characters, Dr. Manhattan, is exiled and it shows how people are afraid of difference. The superheroes are disliked because of the fact that the police are having trouble with them.

When people are different, other types of people fear them. All types of discrimination are caused by differences, and this book is no different than all of the other books that deal with racism, religionism, or agism. These people are discriminated by because of all of their powers, when even though they are helpful, people still think that they do things like cause cancer. This book touches base on the origins of all of the types of discrimination when it talks about it.

In a perfect world, people care about each other no matter what their differences are. Mohatma Ghandi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world". This means that if we want people to be more forgiving, we have to do it ourselves. People who complain about other people but are not doing stuff by themselves are being utterly useless, and we cannot make moral changes without doing something by ourselves.

Flight by Sherman Alexie

The book flight by Sherman Alexie is about a young half Native-American orphan named Zits whois forced to fend for his self when his mother dies of breast cancer and his father ran away. He develops hatred for the people who take control over his life and gains a general hatred for everybody else. He does not trust anybody else and acts sinister and angry. He almost commits a mass murder, and is living with the emotional challenges when he is mysteriously sent back in time.

Power is treated as something only rich people get their hands, and is something that is treated as awful and not a thing that was created to help maintain order and peace. The people with power are the police, or anybody with guns who is going to use them When Justice, a caucasian boy who he would generally hate, gave him a gun, he became one of the characters with the most power in the book. Zits started to fell elated and bloated with power

This makes me uneasy, because guns have killed many innocent people who did not deserve to die, but this boy feels that whoever has this gun is the most powerful person. We are trying to limit the amount of deaths, and this boy believes that this deadly instrument is a good thing.

Ziits refused the Paintball gun and chose the gun. Does that mean that we are too squeamish about guns and killing and in a false utopia, or does it mean that he is a person who actually is a murderer. This story suggests that guns are used for power, and that killing is not such a major thing. The question I had constantly when reading this book was why the author used the gun to show status