Our world today is full of rules, set guidelines, laws, and bills, yet we still have the sense of free will and freedom. Many dystopian novels have been written recently about different types of government rulings. The book Article 5 shows us a sudden change in the government that will affect everybody physically, mentally, and especially emotionally. The author, Kristen Simmons, did an outstanding job at expressing the emotions of every character in this book through her writing. Although this type of government system is outrageous and out worldly, she makes you feel like as if you were there personally living along side of the characters.
Kristen Simmons is a modern author who has published only a handful of novels. She has written the …show more content…
After the war, president Scarboro created a new ruling system, and had demanded that the Bill of Rights be replaced by the Moral Statutes, a strict code that governs everything from what people are allowed to read to sexual practices. Ember tries to help her ambiguous single mother fly under the radar, but one night when she got home from school, she was horrified to find out that her mother was being arrested for violating Article 5 of the statutes, which states that children can only be conceived by a legally married man and woman. To make matters worse for Ember, one of the arresting officers is Chase Jennings, the boy who used to live next door and in which Ember was in love with, but who now appears to be a hardened soldier. As Ember struggled with a presiding officer as her mother was being loaded in the cop car, she saw him get out of the car and all she could think of was “He’d chosen this over me” (Simmons 21). “Chase said nothing. His jaw was bulging, as though he was grinding his teeth, but otherwise his face revealed no emotion, no indication that the home he’d been raised in was twenty feet away. It occurred to me that he was the driver” (Simmons 21). “My terror grew, closing off the world around me. Chase’s presence didn’t soothe me as it had in the past. The mouth that had once …show more content…
When in there, she catches her roommate in a forbidden relationship with one of the guards, She blackmails them into helping her escape to go save her mother, but the plan backfires and everyone is caught. As Ember waits for what is certain to be a major punishment by the new government, Chase shows up with an order to take her to testify at her mother's preceding trial. After they left, she learned that the order Chase presented not real and he had gone AWOL to help Ember find her mother. He planned to move them both to a safe house in South Carolina. In little to no time, the government figures out Chase has abandoned the government, and a notice is sent out that Chase and Ember is to be captured and put in a detention center for years upon years as a