Clues42
March 3rd, 2005, 07:09 AM
Hello All, after googling around a bit this forum seemed the best place to find what I need.
I read a great science fiction book years ago as a Jr. high student and I want to read it again, but of course do not remember the author/title. So I'm hoping I can give a synopsis the story as I can recall it, and someone can help me out.
Synopsis: Set in a future society controlled by psychiatrists, in which everybody drinks an orangish Tang-like vitamin/health drink each night that wipes their minds. In the mornings the first thing they do is look at a terminal/computer/screen in their bedroom and it tells them everything they need to know about themselves for that day (family, job, friends, things to do that day). The main character is a young man with a father and mother in something like a middle class home.
The young man meets a girl from another part of the community/town, and this girl doesn't partake of the drink diligently like the society wants everybody to. She tells him to meet her again and not to drink the drink so he can remember her. So the young man skips out on the drink and follows this girl to her side of the community, something like a lower class apartment building. He meets her family, who also don't drink the drink so diligently, and around the apartments sees a group of young boys primally chasing and killing a parrot/bird.
He gets in trouble with the powers that be somehow, and that way meets the Dr. that oversees the community. His parents are not reminded of him by their terminals anymore, and he is shipped off to a small agricultural labor camp that grows the plant needed for the drink. At the camp you don't have to drink the drink, and the young man enjoys working in the fields and his body getting fit and tan and his mind his own. People at the camp sometimes walk off, and there is a belief that there is a community of the runaways out there somewhere, either that or they die or wander alone. The book ends with the young man leaving the camp and walking off into the fields hoping it exists and to find it.
Okay... That's everything I remember. It was probably in a young adult science fiction section of a public library or the science fiction section of my junior high library.
I have to read this book again!!! Thanks in advance.
I read a great science fiction book years ago as a Jr. high student and I want to read it again, but of course do not remember the author/title. So I'm hoping I can give a synopsis the story as I can recall it, and someone can help me out.
Synopsis: Set in a future society controlled by psychiatrists, in which everybody drinks an orangish Tang-like vitamin/health drink each night that wipes their minds. In the mornings the first thing they do is look at a terminal/computer/screen in their bedroom and it tells them everything they need to know about themselves for that day (family, job, friends, things to do that day). The main character is a young man with a father and mother in something like a middle class home.
The young man meets a girl from another part of the community/town, and this girl doesn't partake of the drink diligently like the society wants everybody to. She tells him to meet her again and not to drink the drink so he can remember her. So the young man skips out on the drink and follows this girl to her side of the community, something like a lower class apartment building. He meets her family, who also don't drink the drink so diligently, and around the apartments sees a group of young boys primally chasing and killing a parrot/bird.
He gets in trouble with the powers that be somehow, and that way meets the Dr. that oversees the community. His parents are not reminded of him by their terminals anymore, and he is shipped off to a small agricultural labor camp that grows the plant needed for the drink. At the camp you don't have to drink the drink, and the young man enjoys working in the fields and his body getting fit and tan and his mind his own. People at the camp sometimes walk off, and there is a belief that there is a community of the runaways out there somewhere, either that or they die or wander alone. The book ends with the young man leaving the camp and walking off into the fields hoping it exists and to find it.
Okay... That's everything I remember. It was probably in a young adult science fiction section of a public library or the science fiction section of my junior high library.
I have to read this book again!!! Thanks in advance.