Whats the title of this Utopian Society Themed Novel?

Question

I read it in high school it was about a classroom of kids who get a new teacher (i think britain or america gets taken over by the communists) and the story unfolds and this classroom of children is brainwashed to take down their flag and stop saying the pledge of alligiance and start wearing military uniforms. its really frightful. and theres the leader of the class johnny who keeps questioning everything because his dad was a big war hero or something. I dont know whats its friggin called! And its bugging me cuz its a great read and id love to own it and put it in with my collection. Thanks guys.

Answer 1

these are all examples of Utopia

Anthem, by Ayn Rand (1933). A short novel.
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Plato's Republic (400 BC) was, at least on one level, a description of a political utopia ruled by an elite of philosopher kings, conceived by Plato. (Compare to his Laws, discussing laws for a real city.) a Gutenburg text of the book
The City of God (written 413–426) by Augustine of Hippo, describes an ideal city, the "eternal" Jerusalem, the archetype of all Christian utopias.
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More a Gutenberg text of the book
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (Beschreibung des Staates Christenstadt) (1619) by Johann Valentin Andreæ, describes a Christian utopia inhabited by a community of scholar-artisans and run as a democracy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, a utopian society is described in the preface.
The City of the Sun (1623) by Tommaso Campanella depicts a theocratic and communist society.
The New Atlantis (1627) by Francis Bacon
Oceana (1656 the Integral, praising the efficiency, the rationality, and the happiness that life within the confines of the One State can bring to those worlds the Integral will someday visit.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), a pseudo-utopian satire (see also dystopia). His last book, Island (1962), presents a foil to this by taking many of the same elements (e.g. drugs) and using them to free, rather than enslave, people.
Shangri-La described in the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)
Islandia (1942), by Austin Tappan Wright, an imaginary island in the Southern Hemisphere, a utopian containing many Arcadian elements, including a rejection of technology.
B. F. Skinner's Walden Two (1948)
The Cloud of Magellan (1955) by Stanisław Lem
Andromeda Nebula (1957) is a classic communist utopia by Ivan Efremov
The Great Explosion, Eric Frank Russell 1963 In the last section setting out a workable utopian economic system leading to a different social and political reality.
The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson (1965) features a protagonist recruited by a woman from a future society to go back in time to help her fight her dystopian, time-traveling foes, who dominate half the world in her time. The utopian claims of her society are undermined, especially by time-travelers from a more distant, actually utopian future who plunge him into aspects of it hidden from him, and hint that their future must be brought about by his actions.
Imagine (song) (1971) by John Lennon, prays for "brotherhood of man", which would exist in a utopia without hell or heaven.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1969), by Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger (1995)
The Hedonistic Imperative (1996), an online manifesto by David Pearce, outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (1997) by Dorothy Bryant
The Matrix (1999), a film by the Wachowski brothers, describes a virtual reality controlled by artificial intelligence such as Agent Smith. Smith says that the first Matrix was a utopia, but humans rejected it because they "define their reality through misery and suffering." Therefore, the Matrix was redesigned to simulate human civilization with all its suffering.
K-PAX(2001), a film based on the book of the same name, is about a man who calls himself prot, an alien from a "utopian planet" K-PAX.
Xen: Ancient English Edition, (2004) presents a utopia with a bias toward matriarchy, in the distant future of Earth, "translated" by D.J. Solomon
Ourtopia,(2004) is Garrett Jones's projection of an ideal planet towards which to work.
Ensaio sobre a Lucidez ("Treatise on Lucidity") by José Saramago (2004), describes a city where there is 83% of blank votes at an election.
Globus Cassus, (2004), is a project for the transformation of the Earth into a large, hollow structure inhabited on the inside, which would be organised by new types of societies and political systems.
The first story arc in the seventh season (2004-2005) of the supernatural dramedy series Charmed involves the transformation of the world into an utopia through the fear of a common enemy.
Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (1943) shows Castalia, a utopian society for the intellectual elite.
Lois Lowry's The Giver
Doris Lessing's Shikasta, Memoirs of a Survivor
Elisabeth Vonarburg's Reluctant Voyagers (Les Voyageurs malgre eux, 1994)
Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy
Muriel Jaeger's 1920s novels The Question Mark, The Man with Six Senses
Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty, Grass
Joanna Russ's The Female Man
Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland
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Answer 2

I also think Brave New World, as a dystopian society that is. Also, the novel Planet of the Apes, where the world has been taken over by "intelligent" apes and humans are considered animals.

Answer 3

You may be thinking of Lois Lowry's The Giver...amazing book. Disturbing story, but a great, if somewhat confusing read at times, especially for younger readers. Censorship, euthanasia, abandonment of feelings, utopian(?) society...it's all there. Excellent read, great food for thought.