Dystopia World's View on War

Recently, many movies and books have become insanely popular that are based upon dystopia worlds. For example, Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner etc. and all these movies give the audience this idea of being forced to do something to save their people. In all these movies, there's the chosen one, who has to go up against everything imaginable to save who and what they love.

According to dictionary.com, dystopia is "a society characterized by humanmisery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding". As Tim O'Brien gets drafted to the war, the reader gets to feel all the anxieties, pressure, questions, and loneliness that comes along. When a dystopian movie comes out, it's automically assumed as a fiction film. But, in almost every aspect war is a dystopian world. It doesn't start from when they arrive, but from when they get drafted.

These movies are a sense of being drafted to war and fighting against everything all for something you may not even believe in. It's war that appeals t to teenagers. Teens wait in hour lines to buy a ticket for these movies, watch them while sitting at the edge of their seat hoping their favorite character is alive, or the hot couple ends up together. Every audience member would be terrified of these movies were actual events, but they aren't even a smudge close to what war would be like.

"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it". -Divergent