- What is the problem or conflict of your book? Which characters are involved? How do you think the problem or conflict might be solved? What is the theme of the story?
- What is the setting of your story? Remember that setting is both place and time of the story. Your book will most likely not tell you exactly when and where it takes place, but can find clues in the story. Is this a modern story (computers, video games, shopping malls, etc.)? How does the setting affect the plot?
- Describe a minor character in your book. Identify the character by name and describe him/her. What is the character's part in the story? How does this character feel about the main character and vice-versa? What are this character's traits? Use examples from the story.
- Are the events in your book realistic or unrealistic/imaginative? Could they really happen? Is your book a fantasy? Tell why you chose your book to read. What factors went into your decision (interesting cover, back cover, recommendation)?
- Explain how a character in your book reminds you of yourself or someone you know. For example, do you at a friend or relative, like some of the same things, have some of the same interests,or have similar problems as a character in the book? What character traits do you have in common?
- How does your book begin? First describe the events that start your story. Then tell if this is a good, effective way for the author to start the book. Explain why or why not. What would you change? Who is the main character in your book? What is this character like? Tell the character's name, age appearance, friends, personality, and problems.
- Would you like to live like the characters in your book? Explain how they live (the situation) and why or why not you should like to live like that. How does your character respond to how he/she lives? What character traits are brought our due to response to character's living situation. What character traits would you develop if in same situation?
- What do you think of the title of your book? Is it a good title? Does it fit your book? Why do you think the author chose this title? Explain how the title fits the book or make up a better title and tell why the new title is better. Does the title summarize the plot. THIS PROMPT SHOULD BE USED AFTER YOU FINISH BOOK.
- Who is the protagonist in your book? Who is the antagonist in your book. What character traits are displayed by both. How does the antagonist work against the main character?
- How does the main character in your book change or grow from the beginning to end of story? How does the plot help/hinder the character's growth or development?
- Was there a moment when the author made us feel the most suspense? When? What emotions did your character exhibit? What was your emotional response to the suspense?
Please use at least 4 sentences to complete your answer.
Recently in America, there has been a surge in dystopian
literature aimed at young adults
(YA), with series appropriating huge fan bases invested in the development of ‘their’ novels
and trading their thoughts on social media. In literary terms, bad societies are currently big
business. With The Hunger Games (2008), American author and screenwriter Suzanne Collins
amassed huge popularity with an audience larger than she had ever imagined. The result was a
trilogy (Catching Fire was published in 2009 and Mockingjay in 2010) which opened the
gates for many more YA dystopian trilogies, all figuring young people fighting against an
adult’s world. The film industry, too, has recognized the profitability of the YA
(dystopian) boom, with the film rights to Collins’s trilogy being sold within months of the
first book’s original publication. One notable author following in Collins’s footsteps is
Veronica Roth, who wrote the first novel of a trilogy, Divergent (2011, followed by Insurgent
in 2012 and Allegiant in 2013), while still at university. With the “Divergent” trilogy the
young Roth amassed popularity almost equal to that of Collins. Part of their great popularity
is that both Roth and Collins use their dystopias to comment subtly on contemporary issues
and problems.
Following in the recent popularity of YA dystopian trilogies, this thesis explores
Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy, with which it all started, and Roth’s “Divergent” trilogy, a
work which is perhaps even more dystopian than its predecessor. The focus will fall on how
the pressures (and perhaps the possibilities) of a dystopian society form the identity aspects of
the trilogies’ protagonists, respectively Katniss Everdeen and Beatrice Prior – later nicknamed
Tris. The socio-political organization of Collins’s Panem and Roth’s future Chicago prove
fundamental to how they develop. This is because both societies force their sixteen-year-old
protagonists into particular roles or categories approved of by the system (or the public,
depending on ‘who’s watching’). However, subverting society’s attempt to mould them, these
constricting conditions also enable the two young women to try out different identities.
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/.../Identity%20Formation%20in%20the%20...
Recently in America, there has been a surge in dystopian
relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
(YA), with series appropriating huge fan bases invested in the development of ‘their’ novels
and trading their thoughts on social media. In literary terms, bad societies are currently big
business. With The Hunger Games (2008), American author and screenwriter Suzanne Collins
amassed huge popularity with an audience larger than she had ever imagined. The result was a
trilogy (Catching Fire was published in 2009 and Mockingjay in 2010) which opened the
gates for many more YA dystopian trilogies, all figuring young people fighting against an
adult’s world. The film industry, too, has recognized the profitability of the YA
(dystopian) boom, with the film rights to Collins’s trilogy being sold within months of the
first book’s original publication. One notable author following in Collins’s footsteps is
Veronica Roth, who wrote the first novel of a trilogy, Divergent (2011, followed by Insurgent
in 2012 and Allegiant in 2013), while still at university. With the “Divergent” trilogy the
young Roth amassed popularity almost equal to that of Collins. Part of their great popularity
is that both Roth and Collins use their dystopias to comment subtly on contemporary issues
and problems.
Following in the recent popularity of YA dystopian trilogies, this thesis explores
Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy, with which it all started, and Roth’s “Divergent” trilogy, a
work which is perhaps even more dystopian than its predecessor. The focus will fall on how
the pressures (and perhaps the possibilities) of a dystopian society form the identity aspects of
the trilogies’ protagonists, respectively Katniss Everdeen and Beatrice Prior – later nicknamed
Tris. The socio-political organization of Collins’s Panem and Roth’s future Chicago prove
fundamental to how they develop. This is because both societies force their sixteen-year-old
protagonists into particular roles or categories approved of by the system (or the public,
depending on ‘who’s watching’). However, subverting society’s attempt to mould them, these
constricting conditions also enable the two young women to try out different identities.
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/.../Identity%20Formation%20in%20the%20...
