Social Upheaval and Psychological Scarring: Exploring the Future in Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now

Understanding the nature of the social and psychological dimensions of the global age of terror offers readers of How I Live Now a way to see the novel as more than the story of one individual character and, instead, to view it more fully as a means of speaking to, for, and about a generation of readers who must come to terms with the social and psychic consequences of living in an age of such uncertainty. [...]released, she worked at the library and waited for the war to end. By juxtaposing the power of love against the power of global terror, Hou; I Live Now pushes readers to acknowledge the twenty-first century demand that society act to avoid the catastrophic loss of life and meaning. Along with the message about the enduring power of love, a close examination of the depiction of war and its social and psychological impact on the characters reveals that adolescents in this future will bear a heavy burden. Understanding the nature of the social and psychological dimensions of the global age of terror offers readers of How I Live Now a way to see the novel as more than the story of one individual character and, instead, to view it . . . as a means of speaking to, for, and about a generation of readers who must come to terms with the social and psychic consequences of living in an age of such uncertainty.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Franzak, Judith K

Đề mục:

Adolescent Literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2009

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v36i2.a.4

Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 36, Issue 2, Winter 2009, Pages 34-39

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ISSN 0882-2840

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