The Not-So Austen Bookclub discussion

Discuss the book here!

The question to think about is:

What do you think 'the edge' of Internment is a metaphor of in today's society?

Feel free to extend the discussion beyond the questions and simply talk about the book as well :D

It is sort of. I mean it could represent our own comfort circles and how we ourselves tend to reject anything that stands outside it. (view spoiler)[ The King kills people and at one point it's suggested that he's doing it out of fear. People usually don't resort to such things but we see examples of us rejecting things that we don't know - things that are essentially out of our own comfort circles - all the time. A big example is discrimination based on race, religion, etc. Okay, so some people do it out of legit hate for people because of their own circumstances but there are a lot of people out there that are racist because they're just... scared. (hide spoiler)]

@Inno: I agree with your idea. The rejection of 'otherness' or the unknown - things outside our comfort zone - is definitely a trait/quality that society has in abundance. Yet it's often not the rejection, but the fear that instigates/is behind the rejection, that is the issue.

'The edge' in a way represents that lingering fear in the back of peoples' minds - the fear of knowledge, of change. Those who are willing to look past this fear are changed...for the better, or for the worse, that remains to be seen. They are shunned by the others because they represent change, and this causes fear.