Hollow Conflicts

The story “Hollow” by Mia Mingus involves many concrete and distinct traits of a romance story. A few romance traits that stand out the most throughout the story are that of clear roles as to who are the heroes and the villains, there is one central conflict which is simple to understand, and the story has a clear ending where the conflict is resolved. Throughout the story, society is divided between the Perfects and the Unperfects; The heroes and the villains of the story are established quickly and firmly from the beginning, with the heroes being of the Unperfects and the villains being of the Perfects. The central conflict revolves around the potential war that may take place between the Perfects and the Unperfects. The story line of Hollow

The Unperfects have to work with one another and use their imperfections and differences as advantages. Being of the authority, the Perfects attempted a genocide against the Unperfects at an attempt to rid of all of the people with disabilities. The cruelties that the Unperfects endured, including being taken by the soldiers of Hollow “by the truckload to the camps to be burned, tortured, and killed”, clearly distinguishes the Perfects as the aggressors and the Unperfects as the victims throughout the

The Perfects attempt to genocide against the Unperfects to rid of all of the disabled beings within the society. Because the Unperfects are not like the Perfects in a sense where their abilities are not as strong, the Perfects believe that the Unperfects are not fit for the community and should be expelled or separated from the rest of the beings in Hollow. The Unperfects knew that they would eventually suffer and die if they did not attempt to create a better life for themselves outside of Hollow. The Unperfects then “built new adaptations for their chairs, lifts, canes, crutches, braces, and their Unperfect bodies, without thought to what was allowed or having to rely on the Perfects to do so.” Being able to create this new community gives the Unperfects a sense of independence and ingenuity with a safe place to recreate their land and use the abilities once known as disabilities in the other world,