Mary Sluder - Blog Post 1

1.  Repetitions
child/children x11
social x5
dystopia(n) x9
2. Strand
child/children-kids-middle school students-young people-teenager: minors
3. Binary
fiction/reality
4. In Laura Miller's article "Fresh Hell", there is a binary of fiction/reality that appears. These words are significant in that they are not related, but in Miller's article she discusses how they might not be so far apart in dystopian narratives and teenage life, especially in regards to "The Hunger Games".
5. Throughout the article, Miller discusses how dystopian narratives are fiction, but can be linked to reality through "the adolescent social experience". An anomaly is present in Miller's article when she discusses "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness and describes a post-apocalyptic age where there are only men. Obviously, this dystopian fiction narrative is no where near reality, but emphasizes another point that Miller makes about dystopian narratives fitting the "paranoid spirits" of society that also "depends on the anxieties and preoccupations of its time".