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The Fever :explode: (Childhood Innocence :children_crossing: (Tom Nash…
The Fever :explode:
Family :family:
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The girls affected by the 'fever' have dysfunctional families and lack reliable father figures in their lives.
Gabby's father assaulted her mother and spent time in prison: "blassted on cocaine... hole clean through her face and down her throat" 17).
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Societal Fears :fearful:
The lake is considered for causing the virus: "Every spring... the lake would give over to acid green... filled with bacteria and hidden species" (84).
People feed each other's anxieties: "The pitchy clamour of nervous parents finding other nervous parents to be even more nervous together" (202)
Technology :iphone:
Role of social media in spreading hysteria. Images and videos are quickly spread, adding to the fear surrounding the 'virus'.
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Technology plays a huge role in the lives of modern teenagers: "thumbs calloused from incessant texting" (17).
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Parents initially place blame for the virus on the HPV vaccine that many of the girls are administered with at the beginning of the novel. Is the virus a a result of the fact that their daughters are too young for such a 'grown up' thing?
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Demonic connotations:"Deenie thought ... she saw something inside Lise's mouth, something black, like a bat flapping" (16)
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"The first time, you can't believe how much it hurts (8)"
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Eli loses his phone and subsequently his connection to the world but he isn't concerned. In some ways, he seems relieved: "Maybe he'd never have a phone again" (161).
Is the author suggesting that we should all "disconnect"?
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Role of technology in the sexuality of teenage girls. Eli receives sexualised images: "Eli Nash looked at the text... a girl's bare midriff" (7).
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Deenie is described in child-like terms before she loses her virginity: "Like my little sister ... with her Play-Doh" (6). Signifying her transition from a child to a young woman.
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Female sexuality as a threat to the nuclear family: "It wasn't long after that he found out about the affair... she miscarried three days later" (10).
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