Examination Day
Autor: Tim • September 25, 2018 • 977 Words (4 Pages) • 537 Views
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matter. The dimness of the room also shows the secretiveness of the government and how much they want their citizens to know.
Dickie went off and Mr and Mrs Jordan waited patiently, not even speaking one word, until the moment came and the phone rang, they answered and it was the government educational services who pronounced that.” Your son, Richard M Jordan, Classification 600-115 has completed the Government examination. We regret to inform you that his intelligence quotient is above the Government regulation, according to Rule 84 Section 5 of the New Code,’’ and from that moment a sudden cry out in tears knowing that Dickie was never coming back.
This straight away and quite clearly tells us that the government doesn’t want people to be able to think for themselves. They want to be in control and seeing people depending their lives on them. Once placed with the idea of what it would be like to live in a world where everybody was below a certain IQ level, it’s hard to imagine society moving forward at the pace that is in today’s world. Dickie’s Dead does not only represent the cruel side of the government but also the failure of humanity, the price you pay for being independent is your dead?
In conclusion, I think this story tells us that we are lucky to live in a country where we have our freedom to express our feelings and we could protest to the things we don’t want. But in some countries like North Korea you are not even allowed to speak bad of the government and the dictator, you are not even allowed to choose your leader but here we are free and provided with all the rights yet we take things for granted, from reading this short story I’ve realised how lucky I should be to be and I would not want to live in a society where my life is controlled by a system, I would want all my rights and the idea of the smart ones being killed and let the dumb walk the earth just so the government won’t get overthrown and it is totally cruel. Examination day is an excellent depiction of a dystopian society that follows a written code that regulates and excludes out the intelligent one that pose an alleged threat to the government
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