Megan Lightcap - Blog Post 1

1. Two Repetitions:
Children
Dystopian 
Apocalypse
Hero/heroine




One Strand:


Children, kids, middle-school, youth, teens, preteens, child, young people, teen-agers, young, young-adult, schoolchildren




One Binary:


Adult/ children
Poor/ wealthy
Uglies/ prettiness





The repetition of different ways of saying child or young person is significant to this article. Laura Miller’s article “Fresh Hell” is geared towards the effect dystopian fiction has on young people and the variety of forms this genre can take. She makes this even more apparent by repeating that these novels are geared towards children and young people.







This article talks about how negative dystopians are and how they reflect the concerns and problems in our world. However, Miller mentions that if "a new, better way of life can be assembled from the ruins would the apocalypse really be such a bad thing?" (3). She points out that sometimes these dystopian worlds can help us truly see that there is something wrong but that the problem can also be fixed, sometimes it just requires the problem to get worse before it gets better.