Examine themes importance to childrens literature

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Assignment: Importance of Children's Literature/Young Adults 7-10 pages

Choose from the following options but requirements remain the same.

Option 1

Using one theoretical lens that we have discussed in class, analyze how Young Adults (YA) either challenges or reinforces a specific social expectation of identity. Be sure to specify what lens you are using somewhere in your introduction and stick to that approach in your analysis.

Lens includes:
Moral Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Oedipus Complex
Feminist Criticism
Gender/Queer Studies
Critical Race Theory
Post Colonial Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Ecocriticism

Option 2

Choose a theme/topic/trope/etc. and examine its importance to children's literature. Topics may include: tricksters, anthropomorphic animals, the forest of transformation, ambiguous endings, power dynamics, mental illness, bullying, alienation/isolation, damsels, heroes, villains, etc.

Requirements

?Two central novel we read in class Quotes from books
?One outside sources*
?7-10 pages, MLA format (title page, Works Cited, etc.), size 12 font, Double Spaced.
?Works Cited and title pages do not count towards page requirement!

Novels We've Read
?Perks of Being a Wallflower
?American Born Chinese
?The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
?The Giver
?The Hunger Games
?Cinder
?Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
?The Hate U Give (if you read the whole novel)
?Brown Girl Dreaming.

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