Thesis Critical Paper [excerpt] My novel manuscript, Yellow Wildflowers, is the story of a near-future dystopian world where women are imprisoned for crimes they may commit in the future. In a society controlled by a patriarchal government that invents lemon bug robots to diagnose socio-deviancy in women, an imprisoned female journalist smuggles her writing out of jail as a form of resistance. The story is told by a historian who compiles a manuscript of the narrator's journals and other...