Monday, September 7, 2015

Emily Robinette- Blog Post 1

1: children x 9
adult x 10

2: children, child, teens, young adults, adolescents, student = people in their youth

3: children/adult

4:The repetition of the term "children" is significant because the article is speaking directly about children and how dystopian novels effect them. She explains in the article how most dystopian literature, while violent, is geared towards children themselves.

5: One anomaly I noticed was how, while her main topic of discussion is children and how dystopian novels effect them, the audience of her article is not children but rather adults. One key element in realizing this is not only her elevated word choice but the fact that the article itself was printed in The New Yorker magazine. She speaks greatly in her article of the mind set of the child and the struggles the young adult goes through, yet while this explanation is geared to the audience(the adult), she speaks as if she is talking directly to the child themselves.

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