the book, "Fearless" by Tim Lott shows us you have to follow what your heart tells you and not your mind, therefore, people can stand in a group to fight against what's wrong.
"She asked for help. I am ashamed to say I did not help her because she was dirty and bedraggled and just a child so I did not believe her.
" pg. "I, too, remember this girl," the voice said, "She came to my police station, I am ashamed to say I ignored her, " pg. "Fearless. Fearless. Fearless. The noise grew, and the people at the demonstration began chanting, too, " pg. Only when a group of people stands together to do something morally right that's when you can truly see what it feels like to have hope.
Fearless means without fear and that is what everyone was feeling once they saw what the school did to Little Fearless.
The police said he didn't believe her but that was in his mind because, throughout the story, after they meet he couldn't stop thinking about the girl who asked for his help.
This story is about love between a family can never be broken because side by side or miles apart from family is connected by heart.
The protagonist, Fearless, goes through a journey of forgiveness, loss, and trust, Having her best friends by her side trying to escape the school, child jail, She is trying to help people in the outside world see how life is in the school, although she has been rejected and cast aside.
People in the outside world don't believe a small little girl, She doesn't let anyone's blind eyes stop her from finding the right glasses to help them see, Through her actions, she ends up getting stuck in a conflict which leads her to almost be forgotten, It takes Fearless time to realize there is good in everyone no matter what is shown on the outside, Overall, this is not that bad of a book, I do like some aspects of this book, For example, I appreciate how it tries to convey a message regarding today's world through specific craft moves, However, there is too much going on, Like, first we have the issue of war, Then we have an issue of abuse, Then we have the issue about labour, I would recommend cutting out everything regarding the war that this book seems to take place, It just gets in the way of this book, However, I have constructed a piece of writing that explains the theme of this book, Well, one of them anyways,
Claim: Like a stack of perfectly lined up paperwork on a perfectly clean desk, "Little Fearless" by Tim Lott is attempting to awaken every reader, and encourage readers to value comfort and individuality over perfectness and order.
If we continue this desire, we will suffer from global issues such as extensive labor and abuse, Evidence In this book, there is an institute to reform young girls who are viewed as bad, They are forced to work all day, and have a rigorous schedule, The man who runs this institute is called the Controller, "All the girls were forced to leave their real names at the gate of the Institute, and were forbidden from every using them,” pg.
The main protagonist is called Little Fearless, and she hates the institute, “She had asked the Controller why they had to work so had when they were only children,” pg, With the power of the Controller, he punishes her, and has no remorse doing so, “Bellyache pushed and shoved Little Fearless towards the squat, threatening ugliness of the discipline block, It was painted black and had a flat concrete roof, It was the size of an ordinary house, but had no upstairs only a ground floor and a cellar,” pg, It is described as cold, damp, and dark, Warrant Generally, people do not want to overwork, or be abused over something that they shouldnt be punished for, interpretation For the girls to be perfect and orderly, they must not be individual people to strip them of their comfort for being different.
That is what the author is criticizing: if they were individual people, they would be very hard to individually control and behave.
Therefore, they would be autonomous, They would be comfortable with themselves, Masters of their own destiny, Because of that simple fact, it would not be orderly because no one who possesses human traits is perfect, so the Controller threw out the names to group them all as the same.
He is also trying to make them perfect people because he is making them do laborious tasks a quality such as working hard is looked upon as a perfect trait.
One man should not have all this power because he is making the girls work tirelessly everyone is suffering from extensive labor.
With his power, he is also allowed to throw out their personalities symbolized by throwing out the names, Seeing that, Little Fearless questions the Controllers power, In her perspective, she values comfort and individuality over perfectness and order, Her moral beliefs are the freedom to be autonomous, and be comfortable with it, In addition, when anyone steps out of line such as Little Fearless, he is allowed to abuse them such as throwing them into a cold, dark, and damp cell block.
The order that the statutory control wants is giving the Controller too much power, If there was no institution to reform young girls, than crime rates would be higher than what the book says, but to have this desire to perfect people is putting order over individuality and the comfort of it.
The author is saying we must not push this desire to this extent or this will happen as a result: he wants people to have the moral values like the character he created, Little Fearless.
If we were to compare our world today to theirs, everyone is individual, so having order and perfectness is very difficult.
It is nowhere near a utopia, In contrast, their world is a perfect and in order, but noone is individual, Conclusion So in conclusion, when your soul is trapped in a cold, dark, and damp cell block by an overpowered order, take the keys like Little Fearless did even if it a perilous task.
We must value comfort and individuality over perfectness and order, or else we will suffer from global issues such as extensive labor and abuse.
I read this for my secondtrimester book report, and I can honestly say I did not enjoy it as much as I would have liked.
The story opened with an eerie and creepy beginning, leaving me with many questions as to what on earth the story would bring.
This book was slow, slower than molasses, There was hardly any plot, The main character is quickly introduced as Little Fearless, a rebellious teenage girl in a terrible institute for children with troubled pasts.
Everyone in the Institute is treated like garbage and none of them go by their real names, All the girls have nicknames based on their looks or personalities, The head of the Institute, The Controller, keeps everyone in line and makes everyone miserable,
Little Fearless' friends believe they will all one day escape and burn the Institute to the ground, They hatch a plan to get Little Fearless out of there and try to reach the girls' parents, One by one, she escapes and visits her three friends' houses, but no one believes that she is telling them the truth.
She says that the Institute is full of sad little girls and they have to work for hours on end, but no one believes her.
Eventually, she is caught by The Controller and locked up in a little prison, far underground, When her friends finally come to get her, she is so weak that she dies, Her friends bring her up for the world to see, and reporters file in, trying to wrap their minds around the situation.
As people start to riot at the sight of the girls in the Institute, someone sets the building on fire, With The Controller still inside the building, it is revealed that he was Little Fearless' dad,
Finally, the book ends with L, F. 's friends, years later, holding a memorial service in honor of her, It is then revealed that their dear friend's name was not Little Fearless, but Hero, Interesting one. This book is presented as "dystopian" but it lacks some of the key elements in the current trend of teen dystopian novels.
First of all, it's narrated inrd person, in a sort of modern fairytale style, It's quite formulaic Little Fearless escapes, finds someone who does not believe her, then gets back,
Secondly, the main characters are children of unspecified age, but we are talking about school age so I imagined them to be somewhat betweenand.
Thirdly, which I'm sure is a plus for some people, due to the younger age of the characters, there is no romance in the book at all.
The story is set in the future, in what is basically a correctional facility for young girls, which however is presented as a religious school to the outside world.
The girls find themselves enslaved in a workhouse and obviously victim to bullying and different ranks between them, until our hero, called Little Fearless, hatches a plan for escaping and trying to tell someone on the outside world what is really going on in that building.
Other than the repetitions in the plot, the language is also sometimes reminiscent of fairytales, I agree with other reviewers that some of the supporting characters, namely Little Fearless'sYgirl friends, were not too well defined and very interchangeable with each other.
At the same time, description of what exactly was going on in the outside world was bland and, at times, even contradictory.
There is talk about a war and bombings but whenever Little Fearless goes to the City it just seems an everyday evening, rather than a city at war.
It was maybe even superfluous to try and update simple terms like "television" to "vidscreen" to give an idea that this is a future world.
Creating a new language is typical in dystopian novels, but this seemed unnecessary, At the same time I found the novel very gripping and read it in half a day, I'm not totally convinced that it would belong in the "teen" section of a library, but it was definitely a good read and I especially appreciated the subtle antireligious undertones.
If we tighten the leash too tight and thrust too much control, rules and regulations upon ourselves and our people, we'll be, in turn, losing our freedom and the ability to make choices in the process.
In the story, "Little Fearless," the author, Tim Lott, awakens the reader and warns us that if we let ourselves be too controlling and too predominant, we'll be throwing away our privileges of independence.
This is shown throughout the story, specifically on pageswhere "The Controller" was introduced as a demanding, controlling person that commands order.
In contrast, at the end of the story, when the institute burns into pieces, around pages, "The Controller" was actually a symbol of freedom before, but when the rules and regulations were shoved into him, his freedom had been extinguished from a burning fire into a smoky wisp.
Generally, we have rules in our governments and respective countries, so we can establish order and keep the country plunging into chaos.
However, the author warns us that if governments take a step TOO far and tighten the leash TOO much, there WILL be order and organization, but there won't be freedom, choices and the ability to be able.
Like the people
in power in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, both stories show that if governments prize order and control over anything else, we'll be losing our freedom and choices.
Sure, the government in the story wants the city to be neat, tidy and orderly, but in the process of doing so he is taking away his freedom.
Though arrangement and structure is better than complete pandemonium, too much of it can snuffle the fires of our liberty and freedom.
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