Sometimes I like to read young adult fiction. I read adult-level fiction too, but my life is busy between work and taking care of the rescued cats. Sometimes young adult fiction is easier to fit into my schedule because I can complete each book faster, plus the storylines tend to be much less raunchy which is a plus.
One of the series I've been reading is called Seekers. It started out pleasantly enough but as the series progressed it turned into an all-out attack on capitalism and white people.
It's ironic due to the fact that the authors (writing together under the pseudonym of Erin Hunter) are English people and obviously benefit from capitalism.
It's about four bear characters and their struggle to survive in a changing environmental landscape. The character development is really good and each one has a very distinct and complex personality. This is where it gets dangerous though because making the characters so lovable and interesting can cause people who read the story to have a lot of real-life resentment for the types of people who would supposedly ruin their world (namely white capitalists).
The brown bear/grizzly named Toklo wants nothing more than to have his own territory which he can defend, make a den, mark trees with scratches, etc. He's having a really hard time because the evil white capitalists are supposedly encroaching on the wild and making less territory available for grizzly bears to live in, so each bear is having to fight harder and harder for less desirable territories.
The polar bear Kallik is having a hard time because evil white capitalists are going to make her ice go away forever! She longs for the ice to return so she can feast on seals, and though it isn't mentioned she probably wants to have cubs, but is afraid that the ice is going to disappear forever.
The two other characters, a black bear named Lusa and a shape-shifter and most of the time grizzly named Ujurak keep getting dreams that they need to "save the wild".
The good flat faces (humans) are Alaskan Indians, and the bad flat faces are white people. The white capitalists by drilling oil are considered to be "ripping the heart out of the earth".
Nowhere in this series (at least so far) can you find any mention of using natural resources responsibly. It's all about demonizing the use of natural resources at all and demonizing white people and capitalism. I thought I'd mention this series here because it's fairly popular and I know a lot of people here may have kids or teens that they don't want indoctrinated into left-wing thought or extreme socialist environmentalism.
Topic: Seekers by Erin Hunter (Read 499 times)