Opening Conflicts Young Adult literature opens a multitude of conflicts, showing teen’s life and how their society can shape them sometimes for the worse, but also how they can become an individual though that, and transform themselves though the choices they make (Proukou, 2005). Young Adult books set readers up to prepare them in seeing the larger issues in the world (Eiss, 2009). Though this genre it had opened the mind-set of many young adults, allowing them to recognise the impact a governing party can old, and the venerability of human society, in not just the bigger picture but how we are effected in everyday life (Eiss, 2009). Within the 2000s, a wave of dystopian has taken the genre by storm (Epic Reads, 2015). The Hunger Games has
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Young Adult literature does just this, providing a context to open worldviews in accepting and seeing the world more critically (Glasgow, 2001). Young Adult books lay out to readers the limitations of our control and help them recognize the domination of politics (Eiss, 2009). The Ender’s Game is a prime example for this as it brings forth questions of freedom and confinement.
Now he knew what he hated so much. He had no control over his own life. They ran everything. They made all the choices. Only the game was left to him, that was all, everything else was them and their rules and plans and lessons and programs, and all he could do was go this way or that way in battle. (Card, 1985). In Ender’s school he is the top gold-star soldier, however, he is still simply a soldier doing exactly what another wants him to do. The only place he defines himself to be free is within the game, which is a little ridiculous since the game confines players with rules. However, he knows though those rules in place he can find his own freedom, within the confides of the game he is his own person. Showing readers the freedom they can find a place of peace even within the system of society; not having to constantly rebel against
Young Adult literature does just this, providing a context to open worldviews in accepting and seeing the world more critically (Glasgow, 2001). Young Adult books lay out to readers the limitations of our control and help them recognize the domination of politics (Eiss, 2009). The Ender’s Game is a prime example for this as it brings forth questions of freedom and confinement.
Now he knew what he hated so much. He had no control over his own life. They ran everything. They made all the choices. Only the game was left to him, that was all, everything else was them and their rules and plans and lessons and programs, and all he could do was go this way or that way in battle. (Card, 1985). In Ender’s school he is the top gold-star soldier, however, he is still simply a soldier doing exactly what another wants him to do. The only place he defines himself to be free is within the game, which is a little ridiculous since the game confines players with rules. However, he knows though those rules in place he can find his own freedom, within the confides of the game he is his own person. Showing readers the freedom they can find a place of peace even within the system of society; not having to constantly rebel against