Friday, April 30, 2010

young adult novel

If I were to write a novel for young adolescence, and were similar to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian I would write the novel in first person as a diary entry. I believe that writing in a diary entry form shows things that happened just as they were. They were first hand experiences for the young adult. In my novel I would write about family issues, friendship, and relationships. I would talk about these three topics because I feel as if every teenager goes through something in their life at some point of time dealing with family issues, friendship, and relationships. Through out the novel I would have a young teenager write like he is writing in his diary or journal. In the novel I would write about a young teen who is having issues with his father and not being able to connect with him on a personal level. It is very important for a young male to have a relationship with him for his own well being and development into adult hood. I would also talk about having true friends in the novel, and what it is like to have true and fake friends in their life. Last but not least I would talk about teen relationships, and how some last but others only last for a short while. Even though many young girls claim to have found their true love at a young age and they will spend their lives with them, most of us from experience know that this isn't true. I would want readers to realize these issues do happen when they are young but this is just how a young teen lives through life with difficult issues to overcome.

1 comment:

  1. Friendships, relationships, and family are good topics for an adolescent novel. You find them all the time. Having the main character write in his diary or journal would make the novel have a distinct adolescent voice. I think the relationship theme would be the most relevant to adolescence because it seems as if teens are always in and out of relationships, especially those of the opposite sex. Finding a girlfriend or boyfriend seems to be an important goal to teens. We see this in some of the stories in Red. Friendship relationships are also important because they help the adolescent develop and grow as a person.

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