Hannah Winne - Blog Post 1

1. young/youth, teen-agers/adolescents, children/kids, and adults

2. age: all of the repetitions listed in #1

3. children and adults

4. Miller’s constant use of age-words relates to the main point of her article - the popularity of dystopias among today’s youth - and her mention of various age groups provides comparisons of different types of dystopias (children’s vs adults), and older to newer dystopias as well.

5. Miller mentions how popular dystopias reflect the worries of society - specifically adolescents. (the main audience of many dystopias) However, she later says that not only do dystopias have a “snow-globe timelessness,” (p.5) even though societal anxieties change given time and situation. She also claims that on top of these social worries, many teen-targeting dystopias have underlying themes resting in the adolescent psyche rather than the real world.