For this blog, I will be doing a Text To World comparison. In my book, The Kill Order, the main problem is a disease. The characters, Mark and Alec, must make it to the mysterious "Headquarters" of the PFC. They need to take another girl, DeeDee, there because she is immune to the flare. They face many obstacles on their way, including the Flare and sun radiation.
The Flare is a strange, futuristic, manmade disease first given out as population control in the form of infected darts. The Flare, once it infected you, turned you crazy. Sometimes, to the point where you are not even human anymore. At first, it would kill you instantly, but others could catch the disease around your body. Then, The Flare evolved to infect you for longer before killing you, making itself spread more efficiently. Some people, called Munies, are immune to the flare.
I am comparing this crazy, unrealistic disease to another disease in real life - Cancer. Cancer can't spread, but is still deadly. Cancer can be treated, and so can the flare, though both have a high cure rate. Both have physical symptoms, and both have mental symptoms. Both of them infect cells in your body. The Flare infects only your brain, and some types of Cancer infect your brain.
As you can see, the dystopian, fictional disease does, in fact, have similarities to real life. Though there are not many, they are still there. I hope you enjoyed reading this essay! If you liked it, leave a comment down below. Can you think of any other similarities that The Flare has to the real world?
Unfinished, working on it
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