Depictions of Youth Challenges in Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places and John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1701.32Keywords:
young adult, challenges, mental health issuesAbstract
The study attempts to investigate John Green’s and Jennifer Niven’s representation of young adult challenges and how they cope with them in their novels, The Fault in Our Stars and All the Bright Places. Both novels are analyzed by using the lens of postmodernism. The significance of the study lies in its singularity in establishing connections between the chosen novels aiming to find the interrelationship between the struggles, challenges, and issues faced by young adults, and the way they deal with them. It also highlights the power of speaking up and the significance of human connection in supporting young adults. The significance of this study also lies in its singularity in establishing connections between two novels by comparing between them, aiming to find the interrelationship between the struggles, challenges, and issues faced by youth, the way they cope, deal, and interact with them and how these challenges construct their identities and build their characters. Another reason is that the study highlights the power of speaking up and the significance of human connection in supporting young adults in responding to the demands of their lives.
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