YA Dystopian Steffan Larsen’s chief points from the article “Why does dad not want to read ‘The Hunger Games’” Young Adult Dystopian fiction has grown as a genre and continues to evolve. But not every generation follows the new genre. Steffen Larsen is giving his thoughts on, why YA Dystopian has not reached his generation, where as books such as Harry Potter have appealed to several generations, including his own. YA Dystopian is one of the biggest and most popular genres today, which is accomplished by hitting the right target group (the teenagers). Steffen Larsen argues why YA Dystopia has not reached his generation as follows: “But most of all- I think- the books tells about manipulation, newspeak and the limits of reality shows”. Here Steffen Larsen reveals his negative view on ‘The Hunger Games’ but also the genre YA Dystopia by using words as manipulation and limits of reality. Particularly the concept of a “reality show” does not have a good renown, especially not in the older generation, where Steffen Larsen belongs. Steffen Larsen’s criticism of ‘The hunger games’ and the genre, could be reasoned with “times have changed” as he also points out: “In the reddish seventies where you overturn capitalist’s and than every thing went good. That is not how it is anymore”. Furthermore, Steffen ironically praises Suzanne Collins for being the only one who tries to dissimulate a new utopia – a dissimulation from which she have sold thousands of books. One of the last main points on why Steffen’s generation does not read books like ‘The hunger Games’, are that he thinks that the YA Dystopian genre targets and addresses the younger generations who still have got great optimism and hope, which is the main genre “end” features. On the other side, it is also good for the teenagers to have their own genre, YA Dystopian. But why does the YA Dystopian genre succeed so well? The stories appeal to the teenagers by using young boys or girls as the protagonist, who show an honest perspective and action-driven stories. Moreover, as the stories have a precise plot and the stories will be told by the role models and themes that the teenagers can draw parallels to. An example of this is a teenager’s first love, which can also be drawn from the text ‘The Great Game at the end of the world’ at pages 132 bottom “Just saying her name made my heart skip a beat”. This truly shows that the teenager has something to relate to. The authors who write books in the genre YA Dystopian are creating situations that teenagers can relate to, and then make a twist to make tension and machinations. Confusion and conflict is also a head theme in the YA Dystopian genre, which the teenagers hardly can relate to. Here the protagonist comes out and save the world, by making very big decisions, where the teenagers recognize themselves. This is shown in ‘The great Game at the end of the world’, where the Baseball game is the main thing, which also change the world from being a normal world by being destructive and change normal people into thoughtless people also called “Ken and Barbie”. Another example is from “The Segment” by Genevieve Valentine, where news broadcasts are scripted and cast as precisely as a Hollywood blockbuster, and a popular news story brings an actor the danger of worldwide recognition. The best book inside the YA Dystopian world can address issues that are specific to the teenage years, and put them on the edge. A great example is ‘The hunger games’, where themes as division, unity and environmental are dominating, as well as, when one goes from child to adult, choose which faction they want to belong to. When they choose young boys and girls, to be the leading roles in the book, it is random who they happen to chose. They choose boys and girls, who are in the same age as the readers of the books, so they can relate to the teenagers. The teenagers must choose who they want to be. It is an identity story, and it's almost silly, how perfect the stories are cut. It will be a choice between life and death, but it is effectively told.