Barbie – It Makes Sense If You Understand Cinemanarrative Dissonance

Published in 1957, 'Atlas Shrugged' is Ayn Rand's magnum opus and her longest novel. The story is set in a dystopian United States where increasingly burdensome laws and regulations strangle innovation and productivity. The plot follows Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive, and Hank Rearden, a steel magnate, as they struggle against 'looters' who exploit their work. A mysterious figure named John Galt leads a strike of productive individuals, persuading them to abandon their companies and disappear. The novel culminates with Galt's three-hour radio speech explaining his philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasizes rational self-interest, individual rights, and the importance of the human mind. The book explores themes of capitalism, property rights, and the failures of governmental coercion, presenting a provocative vision of a society in collapse and the potential for a new capitalist society based on Galt's principles.

The Animorphs series follows five teenagers—Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias—and an alien named Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax), who obtain the power to morph into any animal they touch. They use this ability to battle the Yeerks, a parasitic alien race that can take control of any living creature by entering and merging with their brain. The series explores themes such as horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up. The narrative is told in first person, with each of the six main characters taking turns narrating the books from their own perspectives.