The idea behind dystopian writing is located within its nuance of being oppressed. This is often associated with the relationship between the tyrannical government and its vulnerable citizens, the upper class and the lower ones, or someone who has the ability or power over someone else. With these ideas, this paper attempts to unravel the social imbalance done by the government, in the dystopian article We Ate the Children Last by Yann Martel using Critical Discourse Analysis and Transitivity. Within the analysis, Fairclough’s four steps and Halliday’s language analysis will be used as the theoretical framework, seeking how power is distributed and used in the text. While on the method, the qualitative method will be used as the bridge to interpret the transitivity theory and relate it to Fairclough’s four steps. Through this study, it will show how power can be seen within the language, especially in literature, such as dystopia, and the alternative solutions to the problem.