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Shadow Children is a series of seven books by Margaret Peterson Haddix about a dystopian country which suffers food shortages due to a drought and the effects of the government's totalitarian attempts to control resources as a way to solidify its power. The Population Police enforce the government's Population Law, killing or imprisoning "shadow children," any child born after his or her first two siblings. In some cases, a parent may choose to loan a child's identity so a shadow child can live a normal life. ==Inspiration and Development== Margaret Peterson Haddix began writing ''Among the Hidden'' after discussions with her husband regarding if they wanted to have more than two children, which developed into conversations concerning overpopulation, the earth's limited resources, and China's One Child Policy.〔( ''Among the Hidden'' - Bonus Material ) ''My husband and I knew we wanted to have children. We knew we wanted to have more than one. The question that stumped us was, “Do we want to have more than two?” ... The conversations veered from the personal to the global, as we debated the impact of our one decision on issues such as overpopulation and the earth’s limited resources. We talked about China’s One-Child policy.''〕〔( ''Among the Hidden'' - FAQ )〕 The conversations gradually led Haddix into creating Luke Garner, a twelve-year-old boy forced to live with strict controls and limited choices that result in him spending his life in hiding due to a government that said that he would not have the right to exist.〔( ''Among the Hidden'' - Bonus Material ) ''And though I’d certainly been aware of China’s population control policies before, that was the first time I’d really thought very deeply about what impact such policies have on individuals and individual families. I began imagining what it would be like to live with such strict controls and limited choices—specifically, I began imagining a 12-year-old boy who’d had to spend his entire life in hiding, because the government of his country said he had no right to exist. And then I began writing about the boy, in a novel called ''Among the Hidden''.''〕 Though Haddix had not intended to continue ''Among the Hidden'', she began to explore other characters and other tangents in the subsequent six books in the series.〔''( ''Among the Hidden'' - FAQ )'' Are you going to write more books for the Shadow Children series? ''When I originally wrote Among the Hidden, I had no intention of writing more than just the one book about shadow children and Population Police. The other six books I wrote in the series--''Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy'' and ''Among the Free''—gave me the chance to explore other characters and other tangents. But I wanted to stop before I became repetitious. So Among the Free will stay as the last book. I shifted to writing another series, ''The Missing'', instead.''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shadow Children」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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