History Literature / PosterGirl

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[[caption-width-right:400:''[[{{Tagline}} A Fallen Regime.\\
A Missing Child.\\
A Chance At Freedom.]]'']]

''Poster Girl'' is a {{dystopia}}n novel by Veronica Roth, the author of the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' trilogy, published in 2022. Unlike her most famous works, ''Poster Girl'' is clearly aimed towards an adult audience and includes a lot of darkness and despair in its story and themes.

** The Delegation had plenty of POC in positions of power, but Emily Knox (who is Asian) explains that everyone was financially incentivised to assimilate into the Delegation's heavily WASP-influenced culture and adopt Anglophone names, and that Sonya's family only kept their vaguely Russian (and vaguely Jewish) sounding last name "Kantor" because they could afford to. Sonya then remembers overhearing grownups at a dinner party saying that Nikhil (who is South Asian) made a smart decision by taking hie white wife's name and naming his sons Aaron and [[spoiler:Alexander]].

** The Delegation had plenty of POC in positions of power, but Emma Knox (who is Asian) explains that everyone was financially incentivised to assimilate into the Delegation's heavily WASP-influenced culture and adopt Anglophone names, and that Sonya's family only kept their vaguely Russian (and vaguely Jewish) sounding last name "Kantor" because they could afford to. Sonya then remembers overhearing grownups at a dinner party saying that Nikhil (who is South Asian) made a smart decision by taking hie white wife's name and naming his sons Aaron and [[spoiler:Alexander]].

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Subverted. At first glance the Delegation was the standard YA novel authoritarian regime, which was totalitarian and ruled by a privileged elite but was also completely colour- and gender blind. However, as the story progresses it becomes clear that they were institutionally racist and sexist.
** The Delegation had plenty of POC in positions of power, but Emma Knox (who is Asian) explains that everyone was financially incentivised to assimilate into the Delegation's heavily WASP-influenced culture and adopt Anglophone names, and that Sonya's family only kept their vaguely Russian (and vaguely Jewish) sounding last name "Kantor" because they could afford to. Sonya then remembers overhearing grownups at a dinner party saying that her boyfriend's South Asian father made a smart decision by taking hie white wife's name and naming his sons Aaron and [[spoiler:Alexander]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Downplayed but despite Sonya being the point of view character the narration does hide her true motive to find Grace Ward [[spoiler: namely being the one who snitched her out in the first place,]] hidden for most of the story.

''Poster Girl'' is a {{dystopia}}n novel by Veronica Roth, the author of the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' trilogy, published in 2022.

Like most of Roth's previous works, the novel is set in a dystopian future version of the United States -- in this case, a MegaCity formed in the Northwest between Seattle and Portland. However, ''Poster Girl'' offers a unique PerspectiveFlip on the setting, telling the story from the perspective of the dystopian regime (known as the Delegation) after it has been overthrown by a revolution and replaced by an entity known as the Triumvirate. Furthermore, the book's protagonist, Sonya Kantor, initially factors into the story not as a brave rebel but as the titular "Poster Girl" for the Delegation, having been chosen as the face for its latest batch of propaganda posters before the Revolution took place.

Ten years after the Rebellion, Sonya and the other loyalists of the old regime lead a miserable existence in the Aperture, a ghetto in the outskirts of the MegaCity, trying to make the most of the scraps left to them. It is then that she is approached by Alexander, a former friend of Sonya who turned against the Delegation in the rebellion and has been working for the Triumvirate in the past decade. He gives Sonya a tantalizing offer: find a girl taken away from her family by the Delegation more than ten years ago, and she will receive her freedom. Traversing the new world on her path to redemption, Sonya is confronted more and more with the evils of the old regime, and the part her own family played within it…

Unlike Roth's previous work, ''Poster Girl'' is clearly aimed towards an adult audience and includes a lot of darkness and despair in its story and themes.

Like most of Roth's previous works, the novel is set in a dystopian future version of the United States -- in this case, a MegaCity formed in the Northwest between Seattle and Portland. However, ''Poster Girl'' is unique in that it serves as a PerspectiveFlip on the setting, telling the story from the perspective of the dystopian regime (known as the Delegation) after it has been overthrown by a revolution and replaced by an entity known as the Triumvirate. Furthermore, the book's protagonist, Sonya Kantor, factors into the setting not as a brave rebel but as the titular "Poster Girl" for the Delegation, having been chosen as the face for its latest batch of propaganda posters before the Revolution took place.

Unlike Roth's previous work Poster Girl is clearly addressed towards an adult audience and includes a lot of darkness and despair in its story and themes.

Poster Girl is a {{Dystopia}} novel by Veronica Roth, the author of the Literature/{{Divergent}} Series, published in 2022.

Like most of Roth's Previous Works it is set in a Dystopian Future United States. In this case, in a MegaCity formed in the Northwest between Seattle and Portland. Though unlike her previous works Poster Girl serves as a PerspectiveFlip taking place after the Dystopian Regime, the Delegation, has been overthrown by a revolution and replaced by an entity known as the Triumvirate. Furthermore, the Main Character, Sonya Kantor was no brave rebel like Tris Prior but instead the titular Poster Girl for the Delegation, having been chosen as the face for its latest batch of propaganda posters before the Revolution took place.

Now, ten years after the Rebellion, Sonya and the other loyalists of the old regime lead a miserable existence in the Aperture, a ghetto in the outskirts of the MegaCity, trying to make the most of the scraps left to them. It is then she is approached by Alexander, once a friend of Sonya, he turned against the Delegation in the rebellion and has been working for the new government, the Triumvirate in the past decade. He gives Sonya a tantalizing offer: Find a girl taken away from her family by the Delegation more than ten years ago, and she will receive her freedom. Traversing the new world on her path to redemption Sonya is confronted more and more with the evils of the old regime, and the part her own family played within it…

!! Poster Girl contains examples of:

* AcquittedTooLate: The Triumvirate eventually releases the inhabitants of the Aperture who were lock up there while they were still children/teenagers. This would have included Sonya's boyfriend David, had he not comitted suicide due to the hopelessness of his seeming lifetime imprisonment.

* MoralGuardians: Taken UpToEleven with the Delegation who would punish their population for the smallest indecencies, like eating unhealthily, not sitting straight, wearing tight or skimpy clothing, up and including women having a short haircut or men not keeping their beard neat.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Triumvirate, quite justifiably, considers the Insight and it`s constant monitoring of a persons actions the pinacle of the Delegations tyranny. Yet they use the same technology to spy on the people in the Aperture.

* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: It´s mentioned that three years ago, some people in the Aperture threw bottles at visiting Triumvirate leaders. In reaction she Triumvirate cut the food delivery to the ghetto for weeks, starving the inmates, as punishment.

* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: When trying to get information on Grace Wards Insight, Emily Knocks sends Sonya to "negotiate" with Myth the leader of the Analogue Army terrorist group. Things don't go very well and only the timely arrival of Alexander, who had been tracking her Insight, saves her from being killed by the terrorists.]]

* TheCracker: Emily Knocks is a successful mercenary hacker who originally worked for rebels during the Delegation era and now serves the Triumvirate. Then Sonya recruits her to find out what happened to Grace Ward.

* TheCracker: Emily Knocks is a successful mercenary hacker who originally worked for the Delegation and now serves the Triumvirate. Then Sonya recruits her to find out what happened to Grace Ward.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Emily Knocks is a mercenary hacker who works for whoever pays her be they Regime or Rebels, who likes to troll Sonya several times just because she can. [[spoiler: But she does develop some genuine sympathy for her, to the point that in case of her death she leaves behind messages to help Sonya find Grace. She also wants to delete the Delegations database on everybody’s Insights so no one can abuse it anymore.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Sonya's dossier by the Delegation mentions her having displayed "occasional interests in her own sex" in addition to an attraction to males. Though all shown and mentioned romantic relationships of Sonya's are with men.

Now, ten years after the Rebellion, Sonya and the other loyalists of the old regime lead a miserable existence in the Aperture, a ghetto in the outskirts of the MegaCity, trying to make the most of the scraps left to them. It is then she is approached by Alexander, once a friend of Sonya, he turned against the Delegation in the rebellion and has been working for the new government, the Triumvirate in the past decade. He gives Sonya a tantalizing offer: find a girl taken away from her family by the Delegation more than ten years ago, and she will receive her freedom. Traversing the new world on her path to redemption Sonya is confronted more and more with the evils of the old regime, and the part her own family played within it…