Charlotte Humphrey - Blog Post 1

1. Two repetitions in the article "Fresh Hell" were the words 'social' (used 5 times) and 'world' (used 8 times).
2. A strand I noticed in the article were the words harrowing, grimmer, stormy, totalitarian, and unprecedented. They all show feelings and ideas that dystopian literature evokes.
3. Oppressive/hopeful, current/past, love/hate
4. Miller uses many negative and harsh sounding adjectives to describe dystopian literature. The strand of words throughout the article reinforce the negative theme revolving dystopia's and the type of feelings that are usually in the character's mind.
5. An anomaly of the article is when she suggests there is a sort of "snow-globe timelessness" to dystopian novels. This comment sounds very positive and reminiscent, which is the opposite of how a dystopia is. Snow globes tend to be aesthetically pleasing, and are sometimes collected, while the dystopia is essentially the opposite of this cheerful thought. The idea of a "snow-globe timelessness" suggests dystopias are removed, or at a distance, from the real world.