Always ask yourself these 4 basic questions while you’re reading or in class:
1. Who am I? (Identify the problem )
2. What is my place in the universe?
3. What would I do if I were the protagonist/antagonist in the story?
4. Do I like the story? Why or why not? Which episode or character interests me the most and why?
There are some characters we talk on young adult fiction, such as life and death, dream and adventures, love and lost.
Young adult (YA)
1. Young-adult fiction or young adult literature also juvenile fiction, is fiction written, published, or marketed to adolescents and young adults.
2. YA literature shares the following fundamental elements of the fiction genre: character, plot, setting, theme, and style.
The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
(a) Problem novel
(b) Initiation and Quest (Journey)
(c) Bildungsroman(溫馨勵志/成長療癒小說)
e.g. The Hunger Games
(d) Fantasy/Adventure (genre) 幻想/冒險
(e) Detective fiction (懸疑/推理小說)
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Dubliner
(a) Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
(b) Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses.
(c) similar to Taipei people (台北人)
(a) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
(b) It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist literature
(c) Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem Odyssey.
(d) the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus).
(a) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
(b) best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey.
(c) Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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watch the movie- Finding Forrester
(a) The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.
(b) Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.
(c) The novel's protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion.
(d) It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too.
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pro- in favor of
protagonist
antagonist
em- blood
leukemia白血病
puberty- has the ability in reproducing
minor- under the legal age of full responsibility.
beginner permit 學習駕照
road test 路考
confirmation
governess 陪讀老師
