Panopticon is Jenni Fagan’s debut novel who is catching young readers attention around the world. It shows the horrible life of children in the the scottish foster care system through the eyes of a young teenage girl. It goes into detail about what life is like never having parents or anyone that supports you. Panopticon is the place where young teens who have been abandoned are sent. The kids inside Panopticon are only given the bare necessities to survive rather than strive.
Panopticon demonstrates the reality of life in foster care by showing the what life is like to in the social care system. The kids that were forced into the system live without any true family or anyone to depend on therefore, they turn into rebels and end up being delinquents. I believe that panopticon only provides the bare essentials for the kids to survive inside their care, and gives none of the kids inside Panopticon the right opportunities in life to succeed and with no one to emotionally care for them they end up repeating the cycle. To make things worse for the kids they believe they are constantly being watched and that they are apart of an experiment, and this is making the kids seem a little mentally unstable to the rest of the world. If these kinds were raised in a healthy home or at least were in a decent foster care system they would not have to deal with many of the issue they face in the novel.