BOOK
TALK ----> The Bar Code Tattoo
A tattoo. What harm could a simple tattoo make? In
this book getting a bar code tattoo can ruin your life for others or improve it
depending if you are different or have a problem. The thing is that no one has
a problem, we’re perfect the way we are, however global 1 (the government or
dictator) has a problem with people that are not like him. That reminds me of
the Nazi party. They would eliminate people because they weren’t like him,
which is really wrong, but what’s worse is that in this book Global 1 doesn’t
just kill people by putting nanobots in the barcode tattoo, they pretend that
it’s not them. The nanobots make the person think of suicidal thoughts and
eventually commit suicide because of Global 1 and they just claim that it was a
coincidence that they had the tattoo. They control the nanobots and if they
decide that they don’t like one person they just press a button and it’s off
their hands. The barcode tattoo is also the only way they can pay, work and
much more, if someone has a tattoo and they have cancer or something, it will
appear on the scanner and they will not take in the money or the identity.
Kayla tries to run away from Global 1 by escaping to Canada. It’s a bit like
the slaves in United States that were trying to escape from slavery. The
population are in some ways slaves. If they have to listen to Global 1 or they
get murdered and there’s no way of escaping except running to Canada. I think
that the barcode is a symbol of dictatorship. Global 1 rules the whole world
even if most of the population hates them. They even made a rule that if you
don’t have a barcode tattoo you can go to jail or be punished by death.
When Kayla Reed runs away from Global 1 I got
suspenseful because I wonder what happened to her friends that she worked with for
Americans rights, Mfumbe her boyfriend, Allyson her friend, Augiel her friend, Amber
her best friend. They
all went in different directions and we didn’t get to see them for a while. We
also can predict that there is something different with Kayla. The author
foreshadowed that she was a clone from her ‘‘Grandmother’’ and that she had
bird DNA by her loving birds, talking telepathically and seeing visions of her
clones.
I think that the ideas are really different in a good
way. For example, the idea that global 1 rules the world, Kayla being a clone
with an animal’s DNA which was surprising and much more... I really liked how
all of that science fiction was also blended with real life to be more
appealing for a younger audience like me. Suzane Weyn added a normal teenage
girl life into her story, like a bit of romance, the urge of fitting in etc...
The plot twisting events that I found were when Zeakel and Nedra were in
Kayla’s group to stop Global 1 but really they were working for tattoo gen
which forces people to get tattoos. Kayla and Zeakel were together but once she
found that he was working against her she broke up. I wasn’t expecting that.
I think Kayla was the strongest character was Kayla
because her father died because of Global 1 and the tattoo. Her mother died in
her burning house trying to burn off her tattoo. Kayla had to run away her
whole life until her and her friends hacked in a computer and shut down the
whole system. However she stood up for herself and the whole world. I think we
should learn by her actions and stand up for ourselves. Suzane made that
message because every day kids and teenagers get bullied and make awful
decisions because they are too afraid to speak up. Everyone has been bullied or
teased at least once in their lives, so don’t let them get to you. I believe
the author used exaggeration to prove herself right, like Global 1killing
people for not having tattoos, which is a big problem. She’s just trying to say
that even in little situation, don’t be scared and defend yourself and
others.
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