Logan's Run Literary Elements

Logan's Run Literary Elements

Genre

Novel (science fiction)

Setting and Context

Set in 2116 (futuristic) in the context of a dystopic future

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

The tone is tragic, and the mood is tense.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The title character is Logan 3

Major Conflict

There is a major conflict between the increasing population and reducing resources to sustain the human influx.

Climax

The climax comes when the operative, Logan 3, attains 21 years of age and decides to run away from the ageist society.

Foreshadowing

Computer technology that controls the world was foreshadowed in 1960 by the researchers at Columbia.

Understatement

Logan 3 underestimates the power of the computer system that he operates until he attains the age of 21 and realizes that the same system is ready to terminate him.

Allusions

The novel alludes to resources' constraints against the influx in population growth.

Imagery

Sight imagery is depicted when the author describes the subway system, which facilitates a way out to the sanctuary aiding readers to have a clear picture of the safe exit.

Paradox

The main paradox is that Logan 3 operates the computer system that terminates any individual attaining the age of 21. When Logan realizes that he is turning twenty-one years, he runs away to save his life.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The computer system is personified as having the ability to terminate lives.

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