Dystopian Society in Ryan Gattis' Novel "Kung Fu High School"
Abstract
The study is entitled “Dystopian Society depicted in The Novel Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis.” This novel tells the story of a school controlled by a drug kingpin. Jen B and Jimmy Chang as the main characters struggle to survive in the deadly situations created in a dystopian society. This study focuses on how is dystopian society depicted and how the main characters survive in dystopian society reflected in Kung Fu High School. The study used qualitative method and a theory of dystopian literature by Booker (1994). As the results, the study found that dystopian society is totalitarian regime that control the people into worst and chaotic situation, violence and dehumanization that exist in everyday life, system of capitalist that giving powerfull control into middle-upper class, and pessimism in the mentality of this society. Therefore, the main characters survive by againts the oppressive power or totalitarian.
Keywords: Dystopian, pessimism, survive, totalitarian.
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