They often bring up lectures they remember from Social Studies and ask dumb open ended questions about why the world did not catch on to its oil dependence earlier. Weyn's teenagers are not ones that I would have wanted to hang out with now or back when I was their age. The story mostly involves Gwen and company trying to do normal teenager things, then running out of gas on the way. The problem is, Weyn seems to have forgotten to inject an interesting story along with this respectable environmental message. People are in need of food, medicine, and supplies and it seems that Gwen and company are some of the only ones healthy and lucid enough to help.Ĭritical Analysis: Clearly, Weyn's book is a thinly veiled attempt at showing the young adult audience the possible future if the world's dependence on oil does not cease. When it couldn't get much worse, a superhurricane hits the town. It seems the adults are no better off, fighting at gas stations where the prices are hiked up to twenty dollars a gallon. They must live without products that are either made of oil or are shipped by oil-guzzling vessels.
This does not mean necessarily that high schoolers live different lives until Gwen, Luke, Tom, and Niki's town has a serious shortage. forces all in search of precious crude oil. Some of the top ten oil producing countries such as Venezuela are being invaded by U.S. Plot Summary: The setting is the near future and the world's finite oil resources have been depleted.
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