“Jane Eyre” provides a lesson in how to emerge whole from a toxic relationship.
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Tag Archives: adolescence
How Jane Eyre Is Not Twilight
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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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Fanny Burney Bolsters Young People
Fanny Burney’s “Evelina” is still very relevant to the lives of young people.
The Dark Knight and Adolescent Gloom
“Dark Knight Rises” confirms the younger generation’s pessimism.
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Parents, Kids, Schools & Banned Books
Parents pressure schools to ban books because they want to protect their children. Their children want the books because they have a different set of needs.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Book banning, Catcher in the Rye, censorship, Education, Harry Potter, J. D. Salinger, J. K. Rowling, Judy Blume, Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Stephen Chbotsky Comments closed
When Werther-Fever Upended Europe
Goethe’s “Sorrows of Young Werther” created a sensation in 1774, with a young cult following and older attackers.
Kiki Ostrenga as Sister Carrie
Columnist David Brooks recently turned to Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel “Sister Carrie” in an attempt to make sense of the strange and disturbing case of 13-year-old internet celebrity Kiki Ostrenga.
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Schools Cowed by the Religious Right
Holly Blumner had a vision. A member of the St. Mary’s theater department, Holly wanted to stage Susan Zeder’s Mother Hicks, a adolescent girl’s identity quest, and then take it into area schools. This post is the story about how rightwing groups have so terrified our schools that the vision died.
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Harry Potter, Teenage Hero’s Quest
During Christmas week we get to imagine being children again so I’ve decided to write about student responses to Harry Potter. Members of my British Fantasy Literature class could write essays on any work of fantasy as long as they applied the tools and perspectives we developed in the course. Michelle Steahl and Evan Rowe […]
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