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Tyson Benderskyi, Noah Kirby, Will Lopez, Jay Mitchell

Intro
"Foster you're dead" takes place in 1971 where a lot of citizens owned a bomb shelter. The whole purpose of the shelter, was to prevent harmless people from dying, due to | nuclear war. These shelters were bought every year due to nuclear wars being a problem in this small town.

Publication History
Scientific book was created on base on the story that took place in 1971 it was during | cold war Soviet Union. During this time the vast majority of citizens owned private bomb shelters and financially supported nuclear war preparations for their town. The times tough during that time, the majority of the citizen were preparing for the nuclear war. there was a lot "new models" coming out, they were shelters. The story was made by | Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982), he was one of the best | science fiction writers back in his time. He wrote around 121 short stories and majority were based on real experience. This story is a satire of two 1950s-era trends: consumerism and increasing Cold War anxiety.

Plot
Mike Foster, The outsiders refusing to take part in these preparations. Mike lives in fear that he will not have access to a shelter when these nuclear wars started taking place. Foster's father gives up his resistance and buys a brand-new costly bomb shelter model. Russians create a new weapon that won't protect the people from these bombs, after buying the new shelter. Mike's family is very poor, they don't have similar society status like majority of the people did, so they stay worried about how will they survive the nuclear war. Mikes mother wants the shelter only because she fears what the neighbors think of her and her status. Mike wants the shelter, so that it feels him with joy and he can have a feeling of security around him and not worry weather he wakes up tomorrow or not. Due to his dad not being a acceptable man in the society he was received a status of an "anti-P', but eventually worked his way up to "pro-P'', which allowed him to access the things that he wasn't able to.

Setting
One out of many nuclear novels based on the based on the real event. Story is based on the son and his dad during the tragic event, for the majority of the story the author is narrating it through a dialog. The rough background and the times that the people had to deal with during such a tragic event. nuclear warfare at the time was a rough, for the people and the people that couldn't afford a chamber it was a tragic event for them. money was tough for there time in the nuclear warfare so having a chamber made them feel safe and no scared anymore. The setting of the story is every depressed and gloomy.. Foster your're dead! is showing the poverty and what the people had to go through..

Characters
The protagonist of the novel is Mike Foster it's a teenage boy that struggles in school. His hobby is to make baskets with his broken knife his dad gifted to him. Mike always been interested in the military tools, but his dad could never afford any. Bob is his dad, his father was "anti-P" (not a member of civil defense) there for he never took a part of the armed community. His father is always worried for his son, because he is skeptical of what society provides (nuclear shelters) His dad always told his son the government comes out with new models due to planned Obsolescence.

Conclusion
Foster, You're dead! at it's core, is a story against privatized defense and anti consumerism. The main conflict with the story comes with the son, Mike Foster, and the humiliation and the bullying he receives in school due to his family not owning a bomb shelter. This leads Mike to have a nervous break down. While the adults in the story know that owning a bomb shelter is not necessary, to the children it is a big deal. This bomb shelter culture leads Mike to lose all sense of security in his family. This is a commentary against mass consumerism and the effects of it, making children feel worthless due to what their family has and doesn't have.