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How much of your safety is really just a well-built cage?

On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 · Hajime Isayama

A city lit entirely by lamps, and the dark it can't explain.

In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great floodlamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds.

The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau

Όταν η επιβίωση γίνεται τηλεοπτικό θέαμα, ποιος κοιτάζει;

Σε μια σκοτεινή εκδοχή ενός όχι και τόσο μακρινού μέλλοντος, δώδεκα αγόρια και δώδεκα κορίτσια αναγκάζονται να εμφανιστούν σ’ ένα ζωντανό τηλεοπτικό σόου, στους Αγώνες Πείνας. Υπάρχει μόνο ένας κανόνας: ή σκοτώνεις ή πεθαίνεις.

Αγώνες πείνας · Suzanne Collins