Summary 2025 Global 1 Kayla Reed Visions Parents die Genetic codes Summary Joins resistance Mandatory tattoo On the run Tattoo Generation Eutonah Adirondack Mountains Psychic powers ID: 779081
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The Bar Code Tattoo and Social Darwinism
Slide2Summary
2025
Global
1Kayla Reed VisionsParents dieGenetic codes
Slide3Summary
Joins resistance
Mandatory tattoo
On the runTattoo GenerationEutonahAdirondack MountainsPsychic powers
Slide4Social Darwinism in relation to tbct
Genetic codes
Promotions and demotions
Isolation from societyKayla’s dad
Slide5Where social Darwinism came from
Spencer Herbert
“Scientific” explanation
Laissez-faire; Survival of the FittestWhite Europeans > everyone
Slide6World War II/The Holocaust
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Hitler’s Aryans = “perfect” genetics
Create a “perfect” race by eliminating “imperfections”
Mein Kampf “Nation and Race”
chapter
Hitler = Charles Darwin’s #1 fan
Slide7Action against Social Darwinist ideas
Those who helped the Jews and non-Aryans in WWII
Welfare support system
Food banks and shelters
Slide8Social Darwinism in TBCT’s plot
Unhealthy genetic codes = people isolated from society
Healthy genetic codes = people prosper in society
Bases social class on genetic makeup Survival of the Fittest: “weak” have their life destroyed; “strong” excel Kayla’s dad had a mental disorder, tattoo ruined his life
Zekeal’s dad is healthy, got promoted
Slide9Conflict: Character vs. Society
Bar code tattoo said to make people’s lives easier
(trick them into getting it)
Tattoo actually to weed out the “useless mouths” Government tries to force everyone to get tattoo, Kayla refuses
Kayla forced out of home town to become a
criminal, just to live freely
Slide10Social Darwinism affecting TBCT’s characters
Tattoo drove Kayla’s dad to commit suicide (Page 30)
Gene Drake was killed because he knew what was in the code
Amber’s parents lost their jobs and had to move (Page 70)Zekeal’s mom got fired, his dad promoted, tore family apart
Slide11Any Questions?
Slide12Bibliography
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