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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

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Choose three of Ivy’s Instagram posts and do close readings of them. What can be gleaned or interpreted from these images? You can discuss things like color symbolism, imagery, or how the images are cropped.

What role does imagination play in this story? Describe how it both helps and hurts the characters.

In a 2017 interview, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum said that the new technologies might actually provide solace to teenagers. How does Instagram provide solace to Ivy?