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【Young – adult Fiction】

《week 4》

(1)   Problem novel

Problem novel: The young adult problem novel deals with an adolescent’s first confrontation with a social or personal problem.

(2)   Initiation

Initiation: Initiation is the act of somebody becoming or joining a member of a group or society, often with a special ceremony.

(3)   Bildungsroman

Bildungsroman: Bildungsroman is a genre of the novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character from youth to adulthood. Change is very important for a main character to grow up. It tells about the growing up or coming of age of a sensitive person who is looking for answers and experiences.

(4)   Fantasy / Adventure

Fantasy: Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.

Adventure: Adventure is an exciting or unusual experience. It may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

(5)   Detective fiction

Detective fiction: Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective – either professional or amateur – investigates a crime, often murder.

《Movie & Song》

Finding Forrester: Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. A black American teenager, Jamal Wallace, is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, through whom he refines his natural talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity.

Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World

YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnTGvmVSryI

《The Catcher in the Rye》

Antihero: Holden Caulfield.

Red - Hunting hat

Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle: Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story’s fictional protagonist.

《The Glass Menagerie》

The Glass Menagerie: The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams which premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of The Gentleman Caller.

l   Characters

Amanda Wingfield

        Amanda Wingfield is a faded Southern belle, abandoned by her husband, who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions. Amanda yearns for the comforts from her youth and also longs for her children to have the same comforts, but her devotion to them has made her – as she admits at one point – almost ”hateful” towards them.

Tom Wingfield

        Tom Wingfield is Amanda’s son and Laura’s younger brother. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his family but is frustrated by his job and aspires to be a poet. He struggles to write for he is sleep deprived and aggravated. Yet, he escapes from reality through nightly excursions, apparently to the movies but also to local bars. Tom feels both obligated toward yet burdened by his family and longs to escape.

Laura Wingfield

        Laura Wingfield is Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister. A childhood illness has left her with a limp, and she has a mental fragility and an inferiority complex that have isolated her from the outside world. She has created a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines.

Jim O’Connor

        Jim O’Connor is an old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete and actor during his days at Soldan High School. Subsequent years have been less kind to Jim, however, and by the time of the play’s action he is working as a shipping clerk at the same shoe warehouse as Tom. His hope to shine again is conveyed by his study of public speaking and ideas of self – improvement that appear related to those of Dale Carnegie.

Mr. Wingfield

        Mr. Wingfield is Amanda’s absentee husband and Laura and Tom’s father. Mr. Wingfield was a handsome man, full of charm who worked for a telephone company and eventually “fell in love with long distance”, abandoning his family 16 years before the play’s action. Although he does not appear onstage, he is frequently referred to by Amanda and his picture is prominently displayed in the Wingfields’ living room. The unseen character appears to incorporate elements of Williams’s own father.

《She Walks in Beauty》

She Walks in Beauty: “She Walks in Beauty” is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. One of his most famous, it is a lyric poem that describes a woman of much beauty and elegance.

Lord Byron: Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement.

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

Byronic Hero: Byronic Hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Major character of a Byronic Hero:

-          Rebellious         - Selfish

-          Passionate         - Sensitive

-          Ambitious         - Strong

-          Proud                        - Arrogant

-          Above / Beyond societal norms

BATMAN

Georgia Rule (Movie)

Georgia Rule is a 2007 American comedy-drama film.