It’s a place a lot of kids know about, and it wouldn’t take much prodding for readers to believe that beneath the surface it’s a raging cesspool of corruption and crime. But for some kids, independence becomes a lot more interesting when it’s couched in their familiar, everyday, mundane world. Often this dream takes the form of numerous orphan novels (it’s a lot easier to be independent if you don’t have any pesky parents swooping about), tales in which the child is some form of royalty (orphaned royalty, nine times out of ten), and other tropes.
The ability to make your own rules and to have people fall in line. When a kid looks at the world, what is almost attainable but just out of their grasp for the moment? Autonomy, my friends. Let’s think a little more realistically here. What is the ultimate child fantasy? I’m not talking bubble gum sheets or wizards that tell you you’re “the chosen one”.
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