In The Wikkeling there are 4 themes you might like.

In The Wikkeling
everybody thinks that new is better than old. The school Gary and Rose and
Henrietta go to is a dystopian society. The school is overprotective. The book takes
place in an ultra consumerist society. One of the themes is new is better than old.
In The Wikkeling everyone thinks that new is better than old. The school
made an announcement, BEGINNING NEXT WEEK, AUGUST 28, TEXTBOOKS WILL
NO LONGER BE USED IN CLASSES. ALL CLASSROOM MATERIALS WILL BE
ACCESSED THROUGH THE SCHOOL NETWORK(Arntson, 441-442). The school is
getting rid of books so they can have computers because they are more modern than
books. Everyone got rid of wood so Everything down here is plastic (Arntson,
945). They got rid of wood so they got plastic does not mold they throw out the
wood because old and the plastic is new. Henrietta dad got a new phone. No one
else had anything like it, but her fathers employer, TinCan TeleComm, always gave
him the latest models early (Arntson, 842-843). Her dad phone is updated even if it
is working. Those were some of the ways that new is better than old
The school Gary and Henrietta attend to is a dystopian society. The school
calls their achievement testing, the Competency Exam. On Competency Exam days
these rankings were used to determine whether or not the school was functioning
properly, or whether it should be shut down (Arntson, 162-163). The school is
trying to make it better but it is not because only one test determines if the school
stays open. Gary admits, I cant read, he said finally (Arntson, 1799). Even know
he has the best grade he can not read and he is not learning. Students type all day
At this moment, every child everywhere was typing SENSIBLE STUDENTS

SUCCEED SPLENDIDLY, (Arntson, 161-162). Typing ever day does not help the
kids to learn. Over all the school thinks it is perfect but it is not.
The school is way overprotective. Henriettas lunch is very different than
normal lunch. They watched history movies. It was also good to watch movies
while eating, because watching discouraged talking, and talking with ones mouth
full was both dangerous and impolite (Arntson, 239-240). Not to be able to talk at
lunch time is overprotective. Even though they probably would not choke on there
food. The school does not let the kids talk just incase. The school made up stories
that would make the kids afraid of things they thought could be dangerous. Shed
seen a movie in class where a father kept some tools out of nostalgia, but then his
son died when a hammer fell on him (Arntson, 1048-1049). Tools would not fly and
kill you therefore the schools being overprotective. In the book they have safety
straps on the bus. He exclaimed, and without a pause, he unbuckled all of his safety
straps (Arntson, 335). For us we do not have seat belts but in the book they do
because they are overprotective. Any time they do anything the parents get an
update. Fortunately, as soon as she fastened her last buckle, an automated message
appeared on her parents phones: STUDENT 3421836 SECURED BUS#1056 ETA
16.46.345 [UTC] STOP 342 (Arntson, 322-323). It is not necessary to email there
parents every 5 seconds. Over all the school is overprotective.
The book takes place in a ultra consumerist society. In the book the car has a
honk ad that is when they beep the horn a ad would come out. A thousand
messages erupted from outside: YOUR PARENTS CAN AFFORD A BIGGER, BETTER
HOUSE FOR YOU AT NEWVIEW ESTATES! YOURE NEVER TOO YOUNG FOR YOUR

FIRST CARNOW AT LURMYS! IS YOUR CELL PHONE A TINCAN? IT BETTER

BE! (Arntson, 339-346). The society in the book revolves around buying. They
have replaced a normal honk of a car with an advertisement to increase buying.
When you get in the car it will ask you WHILE YOU DRIVE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HEAR SOME ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PRODUCTS THAT MAY INTEREST YOU?
(Arntson, 1393). Instead of very good music they have ads so pepole will buy buy
buy! In the book old homes are bad Henriettas house stuck out like a sore thumb
on her block. It was the only old house (Arntson, 385). Everyone buys a new home.
Over all everyone in the book thinks buying is great.
Ultra consumerism is one of the four themes. In the book everyone thinks
new is better than old. The school thinks it is perfect but it is not. That makes it a
dystopian society. The school is over protective. Everyone in the book thinks that
buying is great. In the book Henriettas life is different than ours as shown by the
themes.