Pixar’s “Turning Red” brings to mind a series of Lucille Clifton poems where she too looks at the red dimensions of womanhood–and how to handle them.
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Lucille Clifton on Turning Red
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Hamlet and a Teen Suicide Outbreak
Hamlet may give us some insight into adolescent suicides, which are on the rise.
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Wiglaf on Helping Those Who Resist Help
Adolescents often are reluctant to help friends who wish to keep their troubles secret. Teaching “Beowulf” in high school can get at this problem.
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Reading My Way to Adulthood
As an adolescent, I used fantasy in an attempt to hold on to my childhood innocence and hated “Catcher in the Rye.” Little did I realize that Salinger’s novel describes my struggle.
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500 Days of Marianne & Willoughby
The film “500 Days of Summer” has a lot in common with Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility.” Realizing this can make us feel better about the ending of both works.
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Reading Novels for Moral Instruction
“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.
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How Jane Eyre Is Not Twilight
“Jane Eyre” provides a lesson in how to emerge whole from a toxic relationship.
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Novels for When We Need Them the Most
I read “David Copperfield” before entering high school. I didn’t know that it would anticipate some of my unhappy experiences there.
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