Graduate Program

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

2013

Thesis Director

David Carpenter

Thesis Committee Member

Fern Kory

Thesis Committee Member

Jamila D. Smith

Abstract

Marta Hoyle has lived her entire life in the safety and security of the New Republic where she tries to live a life that is in accordance with The Book of Law and Faith. Her Radical parents put her under the government's constant scrutiny, and even though she's resided with her pious Aunt Grace for over five years, she finds herself in danger of being tried and eliminated as a Radical.

When Marta receives a warning from a soldier of the danger in store, she decides to risk a visit to a Radical meeting in hopes of finding safety and protection there. Marta's journey brings her to question the government and church in which she so firmly believes and to decide if she will accept or reject its teachings.

This is a dystopic text targeted at young-adults, which depicts a new government, religion, and society created from the remnants of the former United States of America after its collapse from nuclear war. The government uses its fictitious religion to control the populous and ensure order, but even though things may appear under control on the surface, there are pockets of resistors labeled "Radicals." They could be anyone.

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