Social Worlds.
What social hierarchies or community configurations, moral rules, or codes of
conduct comprise the fictional world that the text creates?
How does the child come to learn about those workings of the social world, and how does the text convey them to the reader?
You might also consider this prompt from the angle of deeper social structures:
Does the text suggest any origin stories about social problems—like poverty or parent less children, for example—or offer any potential remedies?
Are there any tensions in the fictional world between individual actions (such as one’s own moral conduct) and structural forces (such as poverty) in determining the course of the child’s life?
How do the conditions the child is born into in life influence their ability to fulfill the world’s norms and expectations?
