Jorie Pollard Blog Post 1

1.

• young
• social

2.

• contestant, compete, participate, rules; theme that dystopia is a game
• unfathomable, unbearable, broke, intolerable; theme how dystopias really are behind the facade

3.

• poor/wealth
• oppressive/freedom

4. For the strand including "unbearable", this explains the negative feelings towards the dystopias. This is important to the whole because these negative feelings shouldn't exist because these dystopias are supposed to be good things, when in reality this is how the dystopias actually are. 

5. Miller uses words such as unfathomable, unbearable, broke, and intolerable to describe the negative feelings that people within these dystopias feel. However, Miller also glamorizes dystopias as well by describing the honors and televised programs of it all. For something that has such negative attachment, it doesn't make sense to have positive attention.